MSc in Advanced Practice (Non-Medical Prescribing)
This is a specialist pathway of the MSc in Advanced Practice.
Non-medical Prescribing aims to provide patients with quicker and more efficient access to medicines and to make the best use of the skills of pharmacists, nurses, midwives and allied health professions.
Entry Requirements
How to Apply
About the Programme
Through the taught days and the supervised days in practice, the attending professionals will further develop in a number of areas the theoretical knowledge required for prescribing as well as applying that knowledge to their practice.
The programme is designed to prepare nurses and midwives to practise as an Independent Prescriber and allied health professionals to practice as Supplementary Prescribers. In doing so, it meets the relevant standards set by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and the Health Professions Council (HPC). Furthermore, the programme develops the critical analysis and personal reflection skills of course participants and prepares them for lifelong professional development.
Students will study Research Skills: Approaches, Designs & Methods (compulsory) and both Pathway Compulsory Modules. They will also study one from the Optional Modules menu and one from the Dissertation Modules menu:
Compulsory Modules
Pathway Compulsory Modules
- Non-Medical Prescribing 1 (NRT082)
- Non-Medical Prescribing 2 (NRT083)
Optional Modules
- Advancing Assessment and Decision Making (NRT153)
- Analysing and Interpreting Advanced Practice (NRT174)
- Cardio-Respiratory Physiology and Pathophysiology (HCT045)
- Collaborative Working in Eating Disorders (NRT140)
- Complexities of Care Management (NRT149)
- Contemporary Issues in Adolescent Health and Wellbeing (NRT136)
- Evidencing Learning in Professional Practice (NRT148)
- Global Public Health (NRT058)
- Health Policy and Economics (NRT177)
- The Neuroscience of Human Movement and Dysfunction (HCT240)
- Patient Safety and Clinical Risk (NRT073)
- PGCE - Facilitation Learning and Teaching (NRT138)
- PGCE - Assessment and Evaluation (NRT139)
- Partnership Working in Safeguarding Children and Young People (NRT105)
- Practice Teacher (NRT175)
- Therapeutic Practice in Partnership Working in Safeguarding Children and Young People (NRT112)
- Transforming Care, Systems and Services through Leadership (NRT150)
Dissertation Modules
Choose one module from the following menu:
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