Professional Healthcare Practice MSc / PGDip / PGCert

Overview

The Professional Healthcare Practice programme at the University of Bradford offers students the opportunity to apply knowledge to a range of clinical and professional situations through reflection and practice experience, supported by an experienced mentor.

It develops skills designed to meet the challenges of delivering and advancing quality healthcare within a global context.

Learning and teaching is designed to equip students with skills in using a range of information, data, tools and techniques to improve the quality of patient care and health outcomes as well as demonstrate impact and value. There is a focus on patient safety, risk assessment and risk management within a clinical governance context.

The programme is intended to:

• Provide a flexible educational framework that is vocationally relevant, which meets your professional development needs, as well as the organisational needs of employers
• Provide opportunities for inter-professional teaching and learning to share the knowledge, skills and experience common to a range of different health and social care disciplines
• Provide a framework within which the curriculum, where required, meets the regulatory needs of professional bodies such as the NMC, GPhC and HCPC and recognised National benchmarks
• Stimulate you to become a self-directed learner who is motivated to sustain and advance your own continuous professional learning
• Develop your clinical skills, knowledge and critical understanding to an advanced level, applicable to your own field of practice
• Further develop your cognitive and practical skills to undertake data synthesis, complex problem solving and risk assessment

Additionally if you wish to undertake a Master's dissertation:

• Develop your understanding of the theoretical constructs underpinning research or project management
• Demonstrate how the findings can influence practice and policy

Learning and assessment

The aims of the teaching and learning strategies have been designed so that you will be given the opportunity to develop theoretical understanding, research informed knowledge and critical thinking to develop a range of skills appropriate to your professional field, your organisation and workplace setting. You will also develop your skills and knowledge of research and application to your practice area.

Career prospects

Experienced nurses and healthcare practitioners now have the opportunity to take on challenging roles, working across professional, organisational and system boundaries to meet diverse patient needs.

Healthcare practitioners working towards these advanced practice roles, often at the forefront of innovative practice, are expected to undertake master’s level education. The programme is designed to develop the skills in complex reasoning, critical thinking and analysis required to undertake these roles.