Advanced Clinical Practitioner

Take the next step in your career with at the University of Hull. You\'ll study the core principles of advanced clinical practice and have the option to focus on specialist pathways if you wish.

Our flexible programme offers PGDip, PGCert and Masters pathways, so you can select the right option for your circumstances and career goals.

You\'ll be inspired by our facilities on campus and learning face-to-face with our expert lecturers, all while studying part-time alongside your current commitments.

Our modules are designed to give you a solid foundation in all aspects of safe and compassionate care, and are underpinned by the latest research and evidence.

Our degrees offer a blend of theory and practice to give you the tools for a rewarding career as a well-rounded healthcare professional.

Our award-winning Allam Medical Building offers state-of-the-art simulated facilities for you to develop your skills.

Designed to meet demand for advanced clinical practice studies within health and social care, this programme provides the next step in career progression and academic development.

This inter-professional programme allows you to focus on specialist pathways, whilst maintaining a focus on the core principles of advanced clinical practice including leadership, professionalism, inter-professional communication, and service development and evaluation.

The MSc in Advanced Clinical Practice is a part-time programme, commencing each September.

Study part-time

and learn alongside your career

Enhance your job prospects

and become a confident practitioner

Award-winning health facilities

Combine theory

with hands-on simulated practice

Variety of pathways

to suit your ambitions

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Course overview

Module options

About this course

Our programme is designed to challenge, empower and support you in becoming a confident and proficient practitioner, enabling a brighter future for you, the patients you care for and society in general.

You’ll learn the theory through evidence-based teaching and get hands-on in clinical simulation using state-of-the-art equipment in our award-winning Allam Medical Building, delivered by our expert lecturers.

Our modules are designed to give you a solid foundation in all aspects of safe and compassionate care – all underpinned by the latest research and evidence – and you’ll learn through a combination of group work, simulated practice, presentations and more.

Plus, we work with our NHS partners to ensure our course is constantly updated to reflect the very latest in healthcare needs and challenges.

For a full Masters degree, you\'ll study 180 credits over the duration of your course. Some programmes offer a Postgraduate Diploma (PGDip) qualification or a Postgraduate Certificate (PGCert) qualification. For a PGDip, you\'ll study 120 credits, and for a PGCert, you\'ll study 60 credits.

Advanced Clinical Assessment and Examination

Develop your competence, knowledge, understanding, confidence and clinical skills in advanced clinical assessment and examination, including complex history taking and physical examination techniques, underpinned with understanding illness and disease progression and resultant symptoms.

Clinical Reasoning and Leadership

Clinical reasoning and leadership are seen as key skills that healthcare practitioners working at an advanced level need to possess. Without these skills, there is clear evidence that patients come to harm. Learning about clinical reasoning is seen as essential to meet the demands of today.

This module enables practitioners to understand the key theoretical underpinnings of clinical reasoning and leadership. You will benefit from innovative digital teaching methods and clinical simulation in a multi-million pound healthcare campus. This module builds upon history taking and clinical examination skills to provide an immersive simulation lead design.

2 Modules

Clinical Reasoning and Leadership

Clinical reasoning and leadership are seen as key skills that healthcare practitioners working at an advanced level need to possess. Without these skills, there is clear evidence that patients come to harm. Learning about clinical reasoning is seen as essential to meet the demands of today.

This module enables practitioners to understand the key theoretical underpinnings of clinical reasoning and leadership. You will benefit from innovative digital teaching methods and clinical simulation in a multi-million pound healthcare campus. This module builds upon history taking and clinical examination skills to provide an immersive simulation lead design.

Non-Medical Prescribing

You will select a pathway as part of this module, choosing from Pharmacist-independent prescribing, Nurse-independent and supplementary prescribing or Physiotherapist, Chiropodist, Podiatrist and Paramedic independent supplementary prescribing.

The Deteriorating Child

This module will provide you with the theoretical underpinning knowledge that is required to recognise the deteriorating child. The module is taught by academic staff and current practicing clinicians who are experts in their field. You will learn how to use a systematic approach of assessment to identify and treat the deteriorating child presenting with a variety of chronic and acute conditions.

Driving Specialist Developments

Research and Literature Review Methods

Practitioners in all health professional disciplines need to understand the principles of research, to know how knowledge is created and can be evaluated, and to apply the findings of research in the practice setting.You\'llidentify and critically evaluate research that informs important aspects of your practice.

Electrocardiograph (ECG) interpretation

This module will provide you with the theoretical underpinning knowledge that is required to begin to interpret ECGs in clinical practice. The module is taught by academic staff and current practicing clinicians who are experts in their field. You will learn how systematically interpret and relate a variety of ECGs to acute disease pathologies and a variety of long term cardiac conditions.

Chest Radiograph (X-Ray) Interpretation

This module will provide you with the theoretical underpinning knowledge that is required to begin to interpret chest radiographs in clinical practice. The module is taught by academic staff and current practicing clinicians who are experts in their field. You will learn how to identify anatomical landmarks, systematically interpret and relate a variety chronic and acute disease pathologies to a variety of high definition chest radiographs.

Haematological and Biochemistry Interpretation

This module will provide you with the underpinning knowledge that is required to begin to interpret Haematological (the full blood count) and Biochemistry (electrolytes, urea and creatinine and liver function) tests in clinical practice. The module is taught by academic staff and current practising clinicians who are experts in their field. You will learn how to interpret these tests in relation to specific disease pathologies and how these tests can be used to form a differential diagnosis or confirm a diagnosis.

Infection, Immunity and Anti-Microbial Therapies

Develop your knowledge, confidence and competence in providing care for patients with infections. Building upon your clinical experience and case studies from practice, you will be challenged to interrogate the evidence that underpins clinical decisions.

9 Modules

Quality/Service Improvement Project

Consolidating Advanced Practice

2 Modules

Our staff combine teaching and clinical practice with the opportunity to be involved in high-quality research projects.

Their expertise sees them consult with regulatory bodies and government to drive improvement in healthcare, and their research is recognised internationally for its quality.

Additional entry requirements for this course

Applicants should be currently registered with a UK health regulatory body and have a minimum of three years clinical experience.

If you’re an undergraduate student at Hull, you’re guaranteed a fast-track route to this postgraduate degree, as long as you meet the entry requirements.

In order to ensure our students have a rich learning and student experience, most of our programmes have a mix of domestic and international students. We reserve the right to close applications early to either group if application volumes suggest that this blend cannot be achieved.

What do I need?

A degree at 2:2 or a diploma with evidence of successful completion of level 7 study within the past 5 years.

You should have an assigned Coordinating Educational Supervisor. This could be a Consultant, Doctor or Advanced Clinical Practitioner, qualified for 2 years or more with supervisory training.

Additional entry requirements for this course

Applicants should be currently registered with a UK health regulatory body and have a minimum of three years clinical experience.

If you require a student visa to study or if your first language is not English you will be required to provide acceptable evidence of your English language proficiency level.

Your tuition fees will cover most costs associated with your programme. There are some extra costs that you might have to pay, or choose to pay, depending on your programme of study and the decisions you make:

• Books (you can borrow books on your reading lists from the library, but you may buy your own)
• Optional field trips
• Placement costs (incl. travel costs and accommodation)
• Laptop (you’ll have access to laptops and PCs on campus, but you may want your own)
• Printing and photocopying
• Professional-body membership
• Graduation (gown hire and photography)

Remember, you’ll still need to take into account your living costs. This could include accommodation, travel, food and more.

How do I pay for it?

How much is it?

Additional costs you may have to pay

Your tuition fees will cover most costs associated with your programme. There are some extra costs that you might have to pay, or choose to pay, depending on your programme of study and the decisions you make:

• Books (you can borrow books on your reading lists from the library, but you may buy your own)
• Optional field trips
• Placement costs (incl. travel costs and accommodation)
• Laptop (you’ll have access to laptops and PCs on campus, but you may want your own)
• Printing and photocopying
• Professional-body membership
• Graduation (gown hire and photography)

Remember, you’ll still need to take into account your living costs. This could include accommodation, travel, food and more.

How do I pay for it?

We offer a number of awards, bursaries and scholarships for eligible students. They’re awarded for a variety of reasons including academic achievement and/or to help those on lower incomes.

Scholarships and bursaries are separate to student loans. And the best bit is, you don’t pay a penny back.

University of Hull undergraduates progressing to a taught masters course may receive a 25% discount on the cost of their tuition fees.

International Scholarships and Bursaries

We offer a range of scholarships and bursaries for international students.

Benefit from the facilities of our award-winning Allam Medical Building with its simulated hospital ward, intensive care unit, resuscitation unit, and more.

Critical Care Room

Develop the skills needed to work with very ill patients in an intensive care setting with this specialist training area.

One of the most eye-catching pieces of architecture on campus, our library offers round-the-clock access, more than a million books and over 400 open-access PCs.

Lecture Theatres

Our lecture and seminar spaces are situated throughout the Allam Medical Building, offering a variety of workshop and group-based learning spaces.

The programme provides a vehicle for continuous professional development for a range of qualified nurses and allied health professions from within the Yorkshire and Humber region.

Commissioned by Health Education Yorkshire and Humber (HEYH), students are employed by a service provider for the duration of the programme. Some hold permanent posts, whilst others are on training contracts.

Your next steps

Like what you’ve seen? Then it’s time to apply.

Make your application online now, and our admissions team will get back to you as soon as possible to make you an offer.

We regularly deliver virtual and on-campus events to help you discover your perfect postgraduate course, whether it’s a subject you already love or something completely different. Our events are an opportunity for you to chat to tutors and current students and find out about the career options a postgraduate degree could lead to.

All modules presented on this course page are subject to availability and this list may change at any time.