Advanced Practice (Nurse Practitioner/Community Matron/Case Manager)

This master's in Advanced Practice for experienced community nurses who wish to achieve the competencies to work as advanced nurse practitioners or to work in advanced case management roles. The programme meets recognised international and national standards for nurse practitioner roles. Modules taken include core research modules, advanced assessment and independent non-medical prescribing.

KEY BENEFITS

• Central location allows access to world leading clinical and academic resources.
• Access to extracurricular seminars and lectures given by leaders in healthcare from around the world.
• A multi-faculty environment drawing on clinical and academic expertise from a number of world leading schools and hospitals providing an unparalleled inter-professional learning experience.
  
  

PURPOSEThese pathways are intended for experienced community nurses from a range of settings who are developing advanced clinical skills and autonomous practice, supporting educational and practice development or exercising clinical leadership.

DESCRIPTIONStudents undertake core modules in evidence-based practice and healthcare research. In addition students select options from a range of areas including:

• Advanced assessment skills
• Long term clinical conditions
• Clinical practice
• Long term conditions and case management
• Diabetes care
• Specialist practice in reproductive and sexual health
• Prescribing (for eligible practitioners)
• Teaching and learning
• Leadership
• Professional development and organisational change

Other options from our BSc programme may also be available. Students who have already studied modules at undergraduate or graduate level at King's may be able to incorporate this study into the programme, provided that the credits have not already contributed to an award. Modules studied elsewhere may be incorporated through accreditation of prior certificated learning (subject to a successful accreditation claim).

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