The aim of this module is to enable students to continue to develop advanced knowledge, understanding and skills in advanced clinical practice relevant to the student’s scope of practice. The student will continue to develop person centred skills of consultation, diagnosis and care management with a focus on therapeutic interventions, caring for complex presentations and health promotion.

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Successful students will typically:

• Independently explore and critically evaluate the knowledge base pertaining to complex and unpredictable care management and the scope of therapeutic interventions which benefits the development of their personal and professional practice.
• Critically explore the physiological and psychosocial impact and the evidence base of therapeutic interventions.
• Critically explore the efficacy and efficiency of health promotion, including genomics and person focused care, relevant to the chosen areas of practice.

Skills and Attributes

Successful students will typically:

• Work autonomously at an advanced practitioner level demonstrating evidence of clinical expertise within complex and unpredictable care management.
• Demonstrate advanced decision making and shared decision making and evaluate the role of own and others personal and professional values in planning and implementing care provision in complex presentations relevant to the chosen areas of practice.
• Effectively promote multi-professional engagement in advanced clinical practice through communities of learning and communities of practice.

Assessment

Portfolio of evidence

This module can contribute to the following programme(s)

HSACPM: MSc Advanced Clinical Practice