Pre-requisites: Requires 160 credits at level 7 prior to end point assessment – employer/apprentice/university confirm eligibility for end point assessment preparedness

Admissions requirements: Satisfy entry requirements to the MSc advanced clinical practice apprenticeship programme and have completed years one and two and passed progression points.

1. Practise with a high level of autonomy and be accountable for your decisions and omissions; work in line
with your code of professional conduct, professional standards and scope of practice
Knowledge and Understanding
Learning
Enquiry

2. Assess individuals and families using person-centred approaches and a range of assessment methods Analysis
Problem Solving
Learning

3. Use multi-agency and inter-professional resources, critical thinking, independent decision-making skills, problem solving skills and professional judgement to formulate and act on potential diagnoses
Knowledge and Understanding
Learning
Enquiry

4. Assess individuals for risk factors and their impact on health and wellbeing; facilitate and encourage individuals to manage their own health and make informed choices; support individuals with an ongoing plan for preventative and rehabilitative measures
Analysis
Problem Solving
Learning

5. Use expertise in clinical reasoning to plan and manage day to day, complex and unpredictable episodes of care; evaluate events to improve future care and service delivery; discharge or refer appropriately to other services
Application
Communication
Reflection

6. Initiate and evaluate a range of interventions which may include prescribing of medicines, therapies and care
Application
Communication
Reflection

7. Ensure safety of individuals and families through the appropriate management of risk, including safeguarding
Application
Problem Solving
Communication
Enquiry

8. Seek out and apply contemporary, high-quality evidence-based resources and existing and emerging technology as appropriate
Application
Problem Solving
Communication
Enquiry

1. Open Book Examination (meets all learning outcomes) 2 hour Exam 50%

2. Presentation of Practice (as stipulated by the apprenticeship standard): Written Clinical Practice Change Report 1500 words and a Presentation 50% (25 minute presentation plus 10 minutes of questions from the panel)

Open Book Examination – you will sit an unseen open book examination of 2 hours duration. The examination will assess the knowledge, skills and behaviours for Advanced Clinical Practice. You can bring resources into the examination room in order to support your completion of the examination answers. The resources allowed for the open book examination are three referenced written case studies built from the Advanced Clinical Practitioner apprentice’s own practice.

Presentation of practice - This is a synoptic assessment with two elements that demonstrates your integration of the knowledge, skills and behaviours across the Advanced Clinical Practitioner standard. The presentation of practice assessment is focused on a 1500 word clinical practice change report. This written report will outline an evidence based background and proposed clinical practice change related to the your area of clinical practice. You will also comprise a 25 minute presentation with 10 minutes question and answer session with the presentation panel. For further details see
https://haso.skillsforhealth.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/2018.03.22-Advanced-Clinical-Practitioner-Assessment-Plan.pdf

As this is an integrated degree apprenticeship, the end point assessment (EPA) is delivered by the University which awards the master’s degree in Advanced Clinical Practice. They will be Registered on the Education and Skills Register of Apprentice Training Providers and Register of End Point Assessment Organisations.

The end point assessment organisation will demonstrate an independent assessment process. An independent assessor who has had no involvement with on-programme learning and assessment must be appointed to conduct the EPA. There is a process that needs to be followed in preparing for and conducting the independent end point assessment for the Advanced Clinical Practitioner standard. See the above link for further details.

To revisit local, national policies and procedures within your scope of practice, the professional and regulatory codes of conduct relevant to your advanced clinical practice; the importance of working within boundaries of practice; the range of physical, psychological, pharmacological, diagnostic and therapeutic interventions within your scope of practice
To examine the range of physical, psychological and population based assessment methods used within your area of practice and the application of pathophysiology to underpin assessment and diagnosis
To reassess risk in relation to health and wellbeing; the principles of health promotion and prevention; strategies to engage and influence people; the range of health promotion tools available including the importance of therapeutic communication and behavioural change
Re-evaluate how to plan and manage a defined episode of care within your area of clinical practice, which may include admission, referral or discharge, to other services; methods and techniques to evaluate interventions and how to use the outcomes to instigate service development
To revisit local and national policies, regulatory frameworks and guidelines for prescribing where appropriate; knowledge of pharmaco-therapeutics relative to your scope of practice
To examine critical appraisal techniques and how to apply new knowledge effectively to own and others’ clinical practice; the importance of integrating research into clinical practice; the range of evidence- based standards, policies and clinical guidelines which apply to own and others’ practice
All learning and teaching strategies will be underpinned by British values as well as a detailed understanding of the prevent strategy

Workshops, Online resources, self-directed learning, group discussions, tripartite visits

Jennings, F. L., & Mitchell, M. (2017). Intensive care nurses’ perceptions of inter specialty trauma nursing rounds to improve trauma patient care-A quality improvement project.
Intensive and Critical Care Nursing, 40, 35-43
. doi:http://dx.doi.org.ezproxy.staffs.ac.uk/10.1016/j.iccn.2017.01.002
Thorpe, R. 2015, "Planning a change project in mental health nursing", RCN Publishing Company Ltd. doi:10.7748/ns.30.1.38.e9296

https://improvement.nhs.uk/resources/quality-service-improvement-and-redesign-qsir-tools/
App called ‘ReferenceMe’. https://refme.co/ It is available in Apple and Android formats
National Electronic library for Health https://www.evidence.nhs.uk/nhs-evidence-content/journals-and-databases will search Cochrane Library, Prodigy, SIGN and many others for guidelines etc.
http://www.ihi.org
https://improvement.nhs.uk
https://rdcu.be/bpVF1
Access to supervisor with subject expertise

Enrolled on MSc Advanced Clinical Practice Integrated Higher Apprenticeship programme