MSc Advanced Professional Practice
Focus on your development as a healthcare professional
Focus on your development as a healthcare professional
- Meet your professional CPD requirements as you gain credits towards a full MSc degree
- Explore your specific areas of interest within Nursing and Allied Health
- Develop your future career opportunities in a variety of professional roles
- Study on a flexible course that fits around your current career
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Overview
Meet your CPD requirements as you work towards a full MSc degree
Our MSc Advanced Professional Practice allows you as a practitioner or manager working within a health and social care setting to focus on your professional development within your organisational and professional context.
The course builds upon the long and established tradition of delivering expert programmes at the University of Chichester, with our expert staff drawing on their experience to develop a personalised guidance framework that will enable you to achieve a masters level qualification as part of your continuing professional development.
Our approach has been informed by three key principles:
- Provide practitioners and managers with high quality courses that are professionally relevant and academically approachable.
- Offer flexibility and choice.
- Link closely to work practice so that practitioners can implement real change in their own organisation.
Develop your career
This course allows you to take a route to an MSc that facilitates development of your career beyond your current position.
This is ideal if you want to achieve a qualification that meets your personal goals such as advancing knowledge, carrying out research, enhanced teaching opportunities and opening new doors.
Build towards a full MSc
You have the option to build towards a full MSc just one module at a time.
Similarly, you may leave the programme with the interim awards of Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma. These are standalone postgraduate awards and can also be steppingstones to a full MSc.
This is ideal if you wish to return to your studies after a break or are hesitant about committing to a full MSc.
The Course
Flexible and professionally relevant modules for Nursing and Allied Health Professionals
Modules can be:
- Delivered at the university as intensive, short courses with the option of doing an assessment to gain credit.
- Used as a vehicle to gain academic credit for in-house or other forms of non-accredited CPD activity
- Tailored to meet the specific needs of employers
Indicative modules
Core
- Developing Advanced Practice (Non-Clinical)
- Research in Practice
- Advanced Physical Assessment of Adults
- Leadership & Management in professional practice
- Advanced Critical Analysis and Decision Making
- Research methodologies for healthcare practitioners
- Effective teaching & Learning for Healthcare Practice
- Dissertation
Optional
- Advances in caring for people with dementia and their carers
Experience
Discover how we help support your learning
Expert staff
Our teaching staff are all experts in their fields and at the forefront of modern research within the study of Politics.
Learning Resource Centre
The Learning Resource Centre (LRC) contains the library, a café, IT/teaching rooms, and the Support and Information Zone (SIZ).
Library
Our campus library holds more than 200,000 books and over 500,000 eBooks.
Subject specific librarians
If you have difficulty finding material for an essay, seminar or project, subject librarians will be happy to provide assistance.
Teaching and Assessment
Feel the support of our expert staff
Teaching
We have a team of industry specialists who work together to give you the best experience during your studies.
At Chichester, you’re not just a number.
You’ll get to know the team and we will get to know you and your ambitions.
Assessment
Throughout the programme, you will experience different types of assessment which can be either be formative or summative.
Formative Assessment
Formative assessment is an ongoing process of finding out how well you are learning what is being taught while you are still in the process of learning. You can agree to targets with your tutor for your next steps in learning.
In this programme, formative assessment is mainly informal and includes initial needs assessment, discussion of development needs and ongoing responses to the tasks you are set.
Some modules offer you to submit a draft or a plan of the summative assessment. This will often be discussed in your student group where you can receive feedback from peers as well as tutors.
Summative Assessment
Summative assessment, as its name suggests, is a summation of what you have learnt. The summative assessment usually takes the form of more formal test or assignment at the end of a module.
Module assessment is normally based on an assignment of 2,000 words per 10 credits (or equivalent) using specified assessment criteria, linked to defined grade criteria, that explicitly inform written feedback on the quality of student’s work.
A range of formative and summative strategies will be employed to structure learning and are outlined in detail in the individual module handbooks given to you one you begin your studies.
Qualification outcomes
You have the option to build towards a full MSc just one module at a time.
Similarly, you may leave the programme with the interim awards of Postgraduate Certificate or Postgraduate Diploma.
These are standalone postgraduate awards in their own right but can also be stepping stones to a full MSc.
This is ideal if you wish to return to your studies after a break or are hesitant about committing to a full MSc.
Careers
Develop your practice and career opportunities
The course is aimed primarily at qualified and experienced professionals already in role within and managers within Nursing and Allied Health.
The programme enables you to reflect on your own practice within your current role.
Course Costs
Course Fees 2024/25:
Fee per 10 credit module: 370
For further details about fees, please see our Tuition Fee page.
For further details about international scholarships, please see our Scholarships page.
University of Chichester alumni who have completed a full undergraduate degree at the University will receive a 15% discount on their postgraduate fees.
Entry Requirements
- Be working in a practitioner role which enables you to demonstrate learning in a professional context.
- Hold a degree and/or professional qualification at graduate level in a relevant field.
- Have substantial practice experience in relevant settings.
- The opportunity to provide sources of Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) can be claimed prior to entry . RPL relates to the formal recognition of learning gained in a variety of ways before you commence a course at a university. To consider your application, we will need appropriate evidence from you that your prior learning matches the course content/module.
Contact
If you have any questions about this course, please contact James Wilson at james.wilson@chi.ac.uk.
