MSc Nursing: Advancing Professional Practice
Advancing nursing knowledge, skills and attributes are essential to underpin professional practice. The MSc Nursing: Advancing Professional Practice provides registered nurses with an educational platform for career development by undertaking focused study on advancing their decision making, leadership and clinical knowledge, skills and attributes within specific areas of practice.
This course recognises the ever-changing complexity of care and offers a range of flexible and elective study options, which are educationally responsive to changing direction of global and UK policy. Exit awards include a flexible programme - MSc Nursing: Advancing Professional Practice, and pathways for MSc/PgD Nursing: Advancing Professional Practice (Advanced Nurse Practitioner) and MSc Nursing: Advancing Professional Practice (District Nursing).
Contributing staff on the MSc Nursing: Advancing Professional Practice course are active in leading research and policy development in collaboration with groups such as; Association of Advanced Practice Educators (AAPEUK), International Council of Nurses ANP group, Health Literacy UK, International Union of Health Promotion and Education, Queens Nursing Institute, NHS Education for Scotland, British Heart Foundation.
Graduate prospects
The programme will give you the skills and experience you need to develop your career and to act as a leader and innovator in the field of advanced nursing. This academic award will enhance your employability for opportunities in a number of roles, including advanced nurse practitioners, clinical specialists, public health and researchers.
Module list
Advanced Clinical Assessment and Decision Making in Acute and Primary Care (home students only; criteria for entry); Advanced Leadership for Health and Social Care Practitioners; Advanced Research Methods; Applied Pathophysiology for Advancing Professional Practice; Applied Statistics and Data Analysis for Public Health; Challenges in Contemporary Global Health Care; Chronic Heart Failure: Optimising Health and Wellbeing (home students only; criteria for entry); Education in Health and Social Care; End of Life Care; Epidemiology: Principles; Application and Evaluation in Practice; Health Economics; Infection Prevention and Control in a Global Context; Masters Dissertation; Minor Surgical Practices (home students only; criteria for entry); Non-Medical Endoscopy (home students only; criteria for entry); Prescribing for Healthcare Practitioners (home students only; criteria for entry); Recognition and Management of the Acutely Unwell Adult (home students only; criteria for entry); Social Action Approaches in Public Health; Supporting Anticipatory Care for Long-term Conditions; Supportive Palliative Care for Patients with Advancing Heart Failure (home students only; criteria for entry); The Principles and Theory of Public Health Practice; Work-based Advanced Skills and Innovative Practices.Download the Programme Specification for a detailed breakdown of its structure, what you will learn and other useful information.
Due to significant demand, applications for this course are now closed to international applicants for January 2022. Please consider our following intake in September 2022.
Study Options
- 2021/22
Award
Mode of study
Duration
Start date
Location
| Award | Mode of study | Duration | Start date | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSc | Full Time | 1 Year | 31 Jan 2022 | GCU Glasgow | Enquire Apply |
| MSc | Part Time | 2 - 3 Years | 31 Jan 2022 | GCU Glasgow | Enquire Apply |
Study Options
- 2022/23
Award
Mode of study
Duration
Start date
Location
| Award | Mode of study | Duration | Start date | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MSc | Full Time | 1 Year | Jan 2023 | GCU Glasgow | Enquire Apply |
| MSc | Part Time | 2 - 3 Years | Jan 2023 | GCU Glasgow | Enquire Apply |
| MSc | Full Time | 1 Year | Sep 2022 | GCU Glasgow | Enquire Apply |
All entry requirements listed here should be used as a guide and represent the minimum required to be considered for entry. Applicants who are made a conditional offer of a place may be asked to achieve more than is stated.
Minimum academic requirement
UK honours degree 2:2 (or equivalent). Must be a registered nurse.English language
IELTS score of 6.5 (or equivalent) with no element below 6.0.
Additional Information
Other academic and vocational qualifications
Each application to GCU is considered on an individual basis. If you do not have the typical academic entry qualifications, but can demonstrate relevant work experience and/or credits from recognised professional bodies, you may be eligible to enter this course via the University's Recognition of Prior Learning scheme.
International pathways
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Annual full-time tuition fees
Home (Scottish) and RUK: £7,000
International: £14,500
Part-time and distance-learning tuition fees
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Fees are subject to change and published here for guidance only.
Additional costs
As a student at the University, there are additional fees and costs which may or may not apply to you, but that you should be aware of.
Scholarships
We provide high-quality education for a fair price; as the University for the Common Good, we are committed to offering accessible higher education for talented students by keeping our tuition fees low and providing a generous scholarship package of £2 million per year.