Advanced Practice (Cardiac Care)

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The Advanced Practice course is designed to enable practitioners to consolidate and improve understanding of advanced concepts in cardiac disease and treatment and for you to gain the skills to further develop your career.

PURPOSE This pathway is for practitioners who are already or aim to be working in areas of advanced cardiac practice. There are two main aims of the pathway: firstly, to consolidate and improve the practitioners understanding of advanced concepts in cardiac disease and treatment and secondly, to provide practitioners with skills to help them further develop their careers.

DESCRIPTION This pathway is designed for experienced cardiac care practitioners who wish to advance their clinical practice, develop their professional career and enhance their knowledge of research and evidence-based healthcare.
The programme builds on your existing skills and experience to enable you to lead and support the development and subsequent delivery of evidence-based practice. The pathway will provide you with an advanced understanding of cardiac disease and treatment, applying it to advanced care modalities in the sphere of cardiac care. By application of research methodology and evidence-based principles the pathway will enhance your skills in these areas, improving your ability to use these skills in practice.
This pathway forms part of an advanced programme that is suitable for practitioners from a wide variety of areas, for example: accident and emergency departments; cardiac care; intensive care and high dependency units; primary care and general practice staff; staff involved in advising on dietetic and rehabilitation of cardiac patients. Students undertake core modules in cardiac care, evidence-based practice, leadership and healthcare research. In addition students select options from a range of areas including: assessment skills; diabetes care and neuroscience care.

KEY BENEFITS

* Central location allows access to world leading clinical and academic resources.
* Access to extracurricular seminars and lectures given by leaders in healthcare from around the world.
* A multi-faculty environment drawing on clinical and academic expertise in cardiology and cardiac care from a number of world leading schools and hospitals providing an unparalleled inter-professional learning experience.

STRUCTURE OVERVIEW Core programme content * Measurement and Evaluation for Healthcare Practice
* Evidence Based Decision Making in Healthcare
* Cardiac Care - Advanced Practice
* Dissertation.

For students wishing to undertake either an empirical study or a service development project as part of the dissertation module, additional modules must be taken and passed. These include:

* Issues in the Conduct of Healthcare Research (for empirical study)
* Professional Development and Organisational Change (for service development project).

Alternatively students may choose for their dissertation to undertake an indepth analysis of an area of policy or practice or to prepare three papers for publication.
Students undertake core modules in:

* Cardiac care
* Evidence-based practice
* Leadership
* Healthcare research.

Indicative non-core content Students select optional courses from a wide range of available options including:

* Advanced assessment skills
* Clinical specialities.

For full details of the programme structure please click here.Full details of the range of options available can be found by clicking here. Other options from our BSc programme may also be available. Students who have already studied modules at undergraduate or graduate level at King's may be able to incorporate this study into the programme, subject to certain limits, provided that the credits have not already contributed to an award. Modules studied elsewhere may be incorporated through accreditation of prior certificated learning (subject to a successful accreditation claim).

FORMAT AND ASSESSMENT The majority of assessment is by coursework; some modules are also assessed by one examination.

MODULES More information on typical programme modules.
NB it cannot be guaranteed that all modules are offered in any particular academic year. Cardiac Care - Advance Practice - Required Dissertation Module - Required Evidence-based Decision Making In Healthcare - Required Measurement and Evaluation For Healthcare Practice - Required Issues in the Conduct of Healthcare Research - Optional Professional Development & Organisational Change - Optional

For specialist pathways, applicants must normally be working in a practice role, which involves regular patient/client contact. The College cannot arrange clinical placements. The entry requirement for graduate study is a good first degree (minimum second class honours or equivalent). Applicants with other backgrounds or qualifications, including those without a first degree, can be considered. If you do not meet the normal entry requirements or have only the minimum academic standard you should pay particular attention in preparing your supporting statement and CV to ensure that you draw attention to evidence of potential success at graduate level. This might include publication, preparation of substantial reports or active participation in funded research. In addition it is desirable that applicants wishing to enrol on this pathway should be working in an appropriate critical care setting for the duration of the programme. English Language Requirements CAE score: (read more) Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) is part of the Cambridge English suite and is targeted at a high level (IETLS 6.5-8.0). It is an international English language exam set at the right level for academic and professional success. Developed by Cambridge English Language Assessment - part of the University of Cambridge - it helps you stand out from the crowd as a high achiever. 80 (Grade A)

FUNDING Staff from contracted Trusts are eligible to have their study funded, subject to agreement by their manager. Students not sponsored by their employer may wish to pursue other sources of funding. Some scholarships may be available. Prospective students may also wish to consult the Directory of Grant-making Trusts and Charities (available in local libraries). Self-funding students may wish to consider a Career Development Loan