The course has been designed as a top up degree for qualified professionals in health and social care, specifically developed to enable you to take your existing clinical practice and knowledge to the next level of being an effective practitioner.

We've involved our clinical partners in NHS Scotland in developing this course from its inception, ensuring you gain the skills required to thrive in an increasingly complex clinical environment. The course is structured around the real challenges faced by practitioners and each module seeks to draw from and build on your professional role and clinical experience.

Delivered by the School of Nursing and Midwifery within an internationally-focused faculty of the University, the course has been meticulously designed to provide a comprehensive perspective on contemporary healthcare, evidence based practice and complex clinical management. 

Students will develop a robust theoretical and practical knowledge and evidence base to underpin and enhance their clinical practice allowing them to explore their own professional clinical effectiveness; build a sound evidence base to underpin their clinical practice; develop an in depth knowledge of their chosen clinical speciality and devise and develop a clinically relevant evidence based project.

 This course will help you to:

• Develop critical and analytical skills for personal and professional lifelong learning;
• Explore your professional and clinical effectiveness;
• Increase your confidence in evidence based decision making and solution finding;
• Embed your knowledge of clinical practice in a quality context ensuring you can provide high quality safe and effective, person centred healthcare;
• Enhance your ability to carry out in depth investigations for a specific topic and write reports for developing clinical practice.

Using a combination of online, online interactive, blended and face to face teaching this course offers flexibility with the option to undertake specialist modules relating to specific areas of interest aligned to the generic modules suitable for practitioners in all fields of practice.

Prospective students should be a diploma qualified (or equivalent) nurse, midwife or allied health professional with experience of working in a clinical setting. They should be keen to develop their academic ability and clinical knowledge in an ever-changing, dynamic healthcare environment.

* All entry requirements listed here should be used as a guide and represent the minimum required to be considered for entry. Applicants who are made a conditional offer of a place may be asked to achieve more than is stated.

Costs will vary depending on the exit award taken and whether the student has Recognition for Accredited Prior Learning (RAPL). Please contact the course leader for further details.

All course fees are reviewed annually and subject to change.

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Many employers are looking for a Degree or Honours Degree qualification as an essential ‘requirement' for many professional positions. Completing an Honours Degree from the ‘Scottish University of the Year 2011' will help students to develop their career to higher levels. Taking this course may also be the student's next step in transferring to higher levels of academic development through MSc or PhD study.