Advanced Clinical Practice (Taught)

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Course summary

• Develop your skills in decision-making, diagnostics, therapeutics, and clinical management.

• Study in a vibrant and challenging learning environment.

• Gain the knowledge, skills, competencies and professional behaviours required to function as an Advanced Clinical Practitioner.

This course is aimed at applicants who are training to become an advanced clinical practitioner in a wide variety of healthcare settings. It is intended for experienced healthcare professionals and for those wishing to formalise and develop their role as an advanced clinical practitioner.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

Learning in multi-professional groups and being taught by a multi-professional teaching team creates a vibrant and challenging learning environment to enhance and extend your knowledge of working in transformational roles such as Advanced Clinical Practice.

You learn through

• practical sessions

• workshops

• seminars

Applied learning

Applied learning is the ethos at the heart of all Sheffield Hallam courses, meaning that you are given the opportunity to put your study into practice.

You'll be taught by professionals who are active in their field - so you'll get cutting edge, industry focused knowledge of your subject. You'll gain real-world skills through placements, workshops and live projects, often getting the opportunity to work with big global brands.

Work experience is also embedded into every year of the course, so you polish your workplace skills alongside building a solid knowledge of your subject. Applied learning means that when you do start work, you can dive in and make things happen.

Future careers
This course prepares you for a career as an advanced clinical practitioner in

• emergency departments

• specialist paramedics (emergency and urgent care)

• trainee pharmacist

• complex mental health needs in prison

• chartered physiotherapist

Successful completion of this course will prepare you to seek an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) post or if already employed as a trainee ACP, to formalise this post with a nationally recognised academic qualification.