This module is aimed at:

All registered health care professionals working in primary, secondary, or tertiary care wishing to develop a wider understanding of the context in which advanced practice is developing.

Introduction:

This module explores some of the key contemporary issues that affect the development and implementation of advancing practice in modern health care. Its content aligns with the Multi-professional framework for advanced clinical practice in England (2017) published by Health Education England (HEE).

Participation in the module will therefore enable you to meet the portfolio requirements of the HEE multi-professional framework for advancing practice and in particular the pillars of leadership and management, education, and research. 

Key skills:

The module will challenge you to develop and enhance the following key skills for your own advanced practice:

• Critical thinking and understanding complexity
• Decision-making, innovation, and problem solving 
• Clinical risk management and risk stratification
• Clinical leadership and career development

Teaching and learning strategy:

This will be done through the provision of a supportive and inclusive learning experience. This experience will be achieved through the use of peer discussion, critique, and classroom debate. The structure of the module is designed to support peer to peer learning, through engagement with the interactive module materials and the experienced academic team that facilitate your learning. 

Module content:

Using a macro/meso/micro approach to understanding health care, the module explores the socio-political context in which advanced practice takes place and helps you to critically examine the key external influences that impact upon policy and practice in advanced professional practice. 

It also examines the theoretical basis for contemporary clinical decision-making, managing complex situations, and the management of risk.

Taking the module will enable you to explore key issues such as:

• Working across professional boundaries and broadening your own sphere of influence.
• Developing safe, effective, and productive relationships with your own and other professions.
• Engaging in peer review to inform your own and other’s practice.
• Leading new practice and the need to develop service redesign solutions.
• Influencing the future development of clinical practice to enhance quality, reduce variation and promote the sharing and adoption of ‘best practice’.
• Demonstrating and enacting team leadership, resilience, managing situations that are unfamiliar, complex, or unpredictable, and seeking to support and build confidence in others.
• The need to constructively challenge others and the escalation of concerns that may affect safety and well-being.
• The legal, ethical, professional, and organisational policies, governance and regulatory procedures that affect advancing practice.

Fees and Funding for 2024/25

Further details

For further information please contact the module leader Dr Robin Lewis - r.p.lewis@shu.ac.uk