The MSc Person-Centred Practice is a postgraduate programme which focuses on personcentredness in the contemporary practice of integrated health and social care. The Person-Centred Practice (PCP) Framework offers practitioners to develop their studies and to enhance their expertise of person-centered practice through a programme designed to meet their needs and those of the community.
This programme develops nursing professionals for the multi-professional and multi-faceted health and social care environment. The programme offers students a chance to personalise their learning to meet their situation. They can choose to specialise in one of the three disciplines: MSc PCP (Nursing Education); MSc PCP (Nursing Management) and MSc PCP (Community Care).
The MSc PCP (Community Care) programme develops in practitioners the advanced communication skills with the patient, family and inter-disciplinary teams. This programme explores the experiences of illness, death and bereavement for patients and families. This programme enables the practitioner to establish strategies with health/social care members to help patients and families to cope with challenging emotions.
• To develop practitioners with a comprehensive and practical perspective of person-centered ways of working.
• To develop practitioners with an understanding of person-centred practice from a variety of practice, strategic and policy angles.
• To enable practitioners to meet the challenges of promoting person-centredness in advanced clinical, educational, managerial and research-based roles.
The curriculum is taught over 4 terms of 12 weeks each. Modules are conducted in formal instructor-led classrooms sessions. Each term will cover 3 modules with 3 contact hours per module; Lecture is a 3-hour session per week.
2020 Quarter 1 03 Feb 2020 - 10 May 2020 |
2020 Quarter 2 11 May 2020 - 02 Aug 2020 |
2020 Quarter 3 03 Aug 2020 - 25 Oct 2020 |
2020 Quarter 4 26 Oct 2020 - 01 Feb 2021 |
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NM329 | Leading Professional Practice (15) | NM331 | Developing Professional Practice - Work-based Learning (30) | NM328 | Theory and Practice of Person-Centred Healthcare (30) | NM330 | Making Judgement and Decisions in Practice (15) |
NM336 | Developing Advanced Communication Skills in Palliative Care (15) | NM335 | Supporting the Patient and Family in Palliative Care: A Team Approach (15) | ||||
NM332 | Dissertation Project (60) | NM332 | Dissertation Project (60) | NM332 | Dissertation Project (60) | NM332 | Dissertation Project (60) |
2021 Quarter 1 01 Feb 2021 - 09 May 2021 |
2021 Quarter 2 10 May 2021 - 01 Aug 2021 |
2021 Quarter 3 02 Aug 2021 - 24 Oct 2021 |
2021 Quarter 4 25 Oct 2021 - 30 Jan 2022 |
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NM329 | Leading Professional Practice (15) | NM331 | Developing Professional Practice - Work-based Learning (30) | NM328 | Theory and Practice of Person-Centred Healthcare (30) | NM330 | Making Judgement and Decisions in Practice (15) |
NM336 | Developing Advanced Communication Skills in Palliative Care (15) | NM335 | Supporting the Patient and Family in Palliative Care: A Team Approach (15) | ||||
NM332 | Dissertation Project (60) | NM332 | Dissertation Project (60) | NM332 | Dissertation Project (60) | NM332 | Dissertation Project (60) |