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This is a core module within the MSc/PgDip Advanced Clinical Practice (Adult) and MSc Advanced Clinical Practice (Adult) Apprenticeship courses offered by the School of Health and Social Care.

 

The module is only available for students who meet all of the pre-requisites and who have been successful in the course selection process.

 

High demand and on-going medical workforce challenges have proved a catalyst for enhancement of the traditional scope of practice of the non-medical health professionals within emergency care.  This has extended beyond minor injury and illness to “major” presentations. 

 

This led The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM), Royal College of Nursing, and Health Education England (2015) to set out their vision for Advanced Clinical Practitioners (ACP) with emergency care who need to be able to look after patient with a wide range of pathologies from life-threatening to self-limiting and should:

• Be able to identify the critically ill and injured, providing safe and effective immediate care
• Have expertise in resuscitation and be skilled in the practical procedures needed
• Establish the diagnosis and differential diagnosis rapidly, and initiate or plan for definitive care
• Work with all in-patient specialities as well as primary care and pre-hospital services
• Be able to correctly identify who needs admission and who can be sent home.