The module is aimed at all health and social care professionals working towards becoming Advanced Clinical Practitioners and is reflective of Health Education England’s (HEE) Multi-professional Framework (HEE, 2017). This module will facilitate the apprentice, student, or trainee advanced practitioner to develop knowledge of the changing context of Advanced Practice and what is an Advanced Practitioner in the current culturally and socially diverse global healthcare environment.
Delivery of the module will encourage active learning and will adopt a blended approach including some face-to-face interactive sessions, synchronous and asynchronous online teaching sessions. Material will be made available on the University’s Virtual Learning Environment (Canvas).
The module assessment comprises two elements the first is a poster which is produced to articulate the development and implementation of Advanced Practitioner roles. The second element is the production of a Personal Development Plan whose aim is to challenge the apprentice, student or trainee advanced practitioner to reflect and examine their current practice across all four pillars of Advanced Practice and identify key learning needs that must be met in order to progress to Advanced Practice on completion of the programme.
The module has been designed in line with the University of Liverpool’s Curriculum Framework Hallmarks. Research-connected teaching is embedded in the module through a focus on the appraisal of published literature and application of current evidence . The module assessment is designed to authentically reflect the requirements of the Advanced Clinical Practitioner in a constantly changing global health and social care environment.