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’ scope of practice. 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

This module is a core element for students on the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice programme and cannot be studied on a standalone basis.  Students must have completed the following module prior to undertaking this module:

7H5K0291 − Advanced Work Based Skills − Diagnostic Interpretation

Coursework 1, 100%

Portfolio of evidence — Incorporating evidence-based case reviews focusing on therapeutic interventions, complex cases and health promotion.

Formative assessment

Submission of 'Portfolio of Learning' evidencing achievement of Advanced Clinical Practice capabilities (HEE MPF 2017) or apprenticeship standard descriptors (5T0564).

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.

Skills and Attributes:

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