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 students’ own scope of practice.  Students will be supported in their workplace by the workplace supervisor to meet the learning outcomes of the module. 

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.

The module will normally address:

• Validity & reliability of therapeutic interventions
• Shared decision making
• Development of advanced clinical skills
• Caring for patients with complex and unpredictable presentations
• Promoting health promotion in clinical practice

Learning Outcomes:

Knowledge and Understanding:

Successful students will typically...

1. 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.
2. Critically explore the physiological and psychosocial impact and the evidence base of therapeutic interventions.
3. Critically explore the efficacy and efficiency of health promotion, including genomics and person focused care, relevant to the chosen areas of practice. 

Intellectual, Practical and Transferable Skills:

Successful students will typically...

1. Work autonomously at an advanced practitioner level demonstrating evidence of clinical expertise within complex and unpredictable care management.
2. 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.
3. Effectively promote multi-professional engagement in advanced clinical practice through communities of learning and communities of practice. 

Assessment:
Coursework P/F - Portfolio of evidence
Incorporates evidence-based case reviews focusing on non-pharmacological therapeutic interventions, evidencing achievement of Advanced Clinical Practice capabilities (HEE MPF 2017) or apprenticeship standard descriptors (ST0564).

To pass this element students must submit a portfolio which includes:

•  Evidence of a minimum of 40 hours of workplace learning
•  Three completed consultation sheets, signed by workplace supervisor
•  Three DOP (Directly Observed Practice) forms, signed as competent by workplace supervisor
•  Three reflective logs (minimum 200 words each)
•  Three evaluation forms completed by the multi-professional team attending the student’s tutorial on the selected therapeutic intervention.
  
  

Coursework 1, 100%
2500-word essay critically analysing one of the therapeutic interventions identified in clinical practice.

Formative assessment

500-word critical analysis of the therapeutic intervention.

This module can contribute to the following programme(s)

HSACPM: MSc Advanced Clinical Practice