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NSAD01M
Advanced Practice Portfolio Dissertation
This module offers you a unique opportunity to turn your own professional journey into a powerful piece of academic work. Drawing on your personal portfolio as a rich source of data, you¿ll critically explore your development as an advanced practitioner and produce a dissertation (equivalent to 12,000 words) that showcases your growth, insight, and impact.
You¿ll engage deeply with relevant literature, research, and evidence to explore a focused area of enquiry within your practice. Along the way, you¿ll integrate theory with real-world experience, critically analyse your learning across the four pillars of advanced practice, and reflect on how your development contributes to improving care, services, or outcomes in your field.
With structured support and academic supervision, you¿ll build a coherent, evidence-based dissertation that demonstrates critical thinking, academic rigour, and professional relevance. This is more than a written assignment, it¿s a chance to tell the story of your advanced practice journey with clarity, confidence, and scholarly depth.
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NSAD01S
Advanced Practice Portfolio Dissertation
This module offers you a unique opportunity to turn your own professional journey into a powerful piece of academic work. Drawing on your personal portfolio as a rich source of data, you¿ll critically explore your development as an advanced practitioner and produce a dissertation (equivalent to 12,000 words) that showcases your growth, insight, and impact.
You¿ll engage deeply with relevant literature, research, and evidence to explore a focused area of enquiry within your practice. Along the way, you¿ll integrate theory with real-world experience, critically analyse your learning across the four pillars of advanced practice, and reflect on how your development contributes to improving care, services, or outcomes in your field.
With structured support and academic supervision, you¿ll build a coherent, evidence-based dissertation that demonstrates critical thinking, academic rigour, and professional relevance. This is more than a written assignment, it¿s a chance to tell the story of your advanced practice journey with clarity, confidence, and scholarly depth.
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SHG3061
Personal Practice Development Portfolio
The aim of this module is for the student to demonstrate the personal and professional development that has occurred for them since commencing the programme.
This is the equivalent of the dissertation module, requiring submission of a portfolio dissertation demonstrating personal and professional learning and development that has occurred since commencing the programme. The portfolio dissertation will amalgamate and consolidate all previous modules to demonstrate how learning from those modules has influenced practice and facilitated personal and professional development.
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SHG3120
Essentials of Neonatal Special Care Nursing
This module aims to further develop practitioners in their provision of evidence based infant and family centred neonatal care. The module aims to expand the practitioners knowledge base to allow them to focus their decision making as they improve their clinical skills.
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SHG3121
Development of Intensive Neonatal Nursing Care
This module aims to further develop practitioners in their provision of evidence based intensive neonatal care for infants and families. It will enable practitioners who have completed SHG3120 to develop their neonatal skills further with particular focus on infants requiring intensive care.
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SHGM107
Communication in Practice
This module supports you in developing confident, effective communication skills for healthcare practice. Through a blended learning approach¿including self-directed study, academic guidance, and collaborative action learning sets¿you will explore key communication models and strategies. You will examine how communication works in real-world clinical settings, especially during challenging interactions such as delivering bad news, managing conflict, or navigating cultural differences. You will be encouraged to reflect deeply on your own communication style and apply new insights directly to your professional development and future practice.
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SHGM111
Ethics in Health and Social Care Practice
This module is designed for health and social care professionals who want to deepen their understanding of ethics in UK healthcare practice. It offers a student-centred approach to exploring how ethical principles¿such as autonomy, justice, beneficence, non-maleficence, and confidentiality¿apply to real-world clinical decision-making. You¿ll critically examine ethical frameworks, including those outlined by professional bodies such as the NMC, HCPC and reflect on how these guide communication, consent, safeguarding, and professional accountability. Through case-based learning, reflective practice, and collaborative discussion, you¿ll develop the confidence to navigate ethically complex situations and apply ethical reasoning to your own professional context.
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SHGM112
Managing Wellbeing in Practice
This module supports you in developing confident, reflective approaches to wellbeing in healthcare practice. Through a blended learning experience, including self-directed study, academic guidance, and collaborative action learning sets, you will explore key models and strategies for promoting wellbeing at individual, team, and organisational levels. You¿ll examine how wellbeing is supported in real-world clinical settings, especially during high-pressure situations such as managing workload, responding to emotional distress, or working in ethically complex environments. You¿ll be encouraged to reflect deeply on your own wellbeing practices and apply new insights to enhance resilience, self-awareness, and sustainable professional development.
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SHGM25
Management and Leadership in Health Care Practice
This module supports you to deepen your critical understanding of the knowledge and skills required to lead and manage people in complex clinical environments. You will explore how to develop capacity and capability in your team through performance enabling techniques, and how to work effectively with interprofessional colleagues. Throughout the module you will strengthen both your theoretical insight, and your enhanced practice-based skills in leadership, management and collaborative working.
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SHGM44
Clinical supervision
This module will enable students to develop their knowledge around clinical supervision and enhance their ability to engage in and facilitate this process whilst in practice.
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SHGM61
Essentials of Neonatal Special Care Nursing
This module aims to further develop practitioners in their provision of evidence based infant and family centred neonatal care. The module aims to expand the practitioners knowledge base to allow them to focus their decision making as they improve their clinical skills.
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SHGM77
Development of Intensive Neonatal Nursing Care
This module aims to further develop practitioners in their provision of evidence based intensive neonatal care for infants and families. It will enable practitioners who have completed SHGM61 to develop their neonatal skills further with particular focus on infants requiring intensive care.
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SHGM90
Starting Your Professional Development
This core module is your starting point for the Postgraduate Certificate, Postgraduate Diploma or MSc Enhanced Professional Practice. It introduces you to the core principles underpinning work-based learning and supports you in developing advanced skills needed to shape your own personal and professional growth. You will strengthen your academic capabilities at level 7, including critical thinking, evidence informed decision making and reflective analysis. By engaging with real-world practice, postgraduate level study and self-directed independent learning, you will build a strong foundation for the rest of your academic and professional development.
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SHGM91
Professional Practice Dissertation: From Insight to Impact
This core dissertation module gives you the opportunity to demonstrate the personal and professional development you have achieved since beginning the MSc Enhanced Professional Practice programme. You are required to produce a 12,000 word advanced reflective analysis, drawing together learning from all previous modules. You will critically examine how your studies have informed your practice, shaped your decision making and contributed to your ongoing professional growth. Through reflexive practice you will also critically evaluate the impact of your learning within your own scope of practice, considering how your development influences the quality, effectiveness and direction of your professional role and service delivery.
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SHGM92
Policy Influences on Your Practice
This module supports you in critically evaluating your own practice and understanding in relation to key policy drivers at global, national and local levels. You will explore how policy shapes healthcare delivery, influences decision making and impacts the experiences of practitioners, services and service users. Through advanced analysis and reflection, you will develop a deeper understanding of how policy informs your role and how you can respond to, influence and implement policy within your practice context.
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SHGM93
Assessing Your Current Practice
The aim of this module is to enable the student to assess and evaluate a chosen area of their practice. Students will gain skills in evidence based practice and service evaluation.
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SHGM95
How to make a change in Practice
This module supports you in exploring a range of change management approaches and evaluating how they can be applied to create meaningful quality improvements in your practice context. You will critically examine established models of change, consider their relevance to your own professional context, and develop the confidence to plan, implement and sustain change within your service. Through critical analysis and reflection you will build the skills and knowledge needed to lead effective change that enhances the quality and impact of care.
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SHGM97
Teaching and Learning in Practice
This module supports you to develop your teaching and facilitation skills within your practice setting. You will explore both seminal and contemporary theories of teaching, learning and assessment, and apply these to real-world situations to enhance the way you support and develop learners in practice. A key focus of the module is building your confidence, capability and understanding when giving meaningful constructive feedback that promotes growth and improves performance. Learners may include students, colleagues or patients, enabling you to adapt your approach to a variety of learning needs and contexts. Through critical reflection you will strengthen your effectiveness as an educator within your professional setting.
