PgCert Advancing Healthcare Practice at Robert Gordon University

Programme overview

PgCert is an exit award within the Advancing Healthcare Practice course. Built around nationally recognised benchmarks for advanced practice, the course equips professionals with contemporary knowledge and skills to practice within a dynamic healthcare landscape. If you are a registered healthcare professional looking to attain advanced practice attributes relevant to both clinical and specialist practice then this course is for you. There are three routes within this programme to prepare practitioners to deliver safe and effective person-centred care at an advanced level.

Faculty: School of Health | Location: Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom

What you will study

This route is suitable for registered nurses, paramedics and allied health professionals and is the preferred route if you are working towards an Advanced Practitioner role such as those working in acute care, primary care, out of hour’s or hospital at night services. This route has a work-based learning approach where students require to be working in clinical practice to undertake the work-based element of the programme supported by an appropriately qualified practice assessor.

Career pathways

The programme recognises the accepted international benchmark for advanced practice and trains you to be highly experienced and educated member of care teams who can diagnose and treat healthcare needs or make a referral to an appropriate specialist. This programme will prepare you for an advanced role in a range of healthcare settings.

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Application information

Entry requirements

The minimum entry requirement for this programme will normally be an honours degree or its equivalent. In addition, because of the work based nature of the programme, all students must be working in clinical practice or sponsored by a Health Board and have access to a practice assessor/practice supervisor. You must have a first registration within an appropriate professional body and be working in clinical practice and have the support of an appropriately qualified Practice Assessor. Additional entry criteria is required to be met to undertake module NUM090 Prescribing for Healthcare Practitioners (NMC 2019). Applicants whose first language is not English should have an IELTS of 6.5 overall, with no component lower than 5.5, or equivalent.

Apply through the official page: https://www.rgu.ac.uk/study/courses/pgcert-pgdip-msc-advancing-healthcare-practice#apply

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