All elements of assessment must be passed.
Additional Assessment Details (include formative feedback / assessment):
Formative feedback: skills laboratory practice, practice feedback, tutorials, scenario discussions, role play Mock OSCE practice and formative feedback
Formative feedback from clinical preceptor in a clinical practice setting.

This module enables health care professionals to gain and expand knowledge and skills in the performance of advanced health assessment and clinical diagnostics across the lifespan. It focuses upon the practice of advanced health assessment and history taking, to form a diagnosis. Content enables students to undertake a comprehensive and focused advanced health examination and to facilitate the individual to relate the following core content to the role of the Advanced Practitioner. Advanced clinical practice is delivered by experienced, registered healthcare practitioners. It is a level of practice characterised by a high degree of autonomy and complex decision making. Advanced clinical practitioners work as part of a wider health and social care team, they manage complete episodes of clinical care, which means they can independently provide care from the time a patient first presents through to discharge.

Health assessment using a systems approach: cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological, musculoskeletal, abdominal, head and neck will be explored, along with associated anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and health history. Clinical diagnostics skill development in, haematology, biochemistry, endocrinology, bacteriology, virology x-ray interpretation, ECG interpretation are also part of the module content.

Advanced Health Assessment is considered within the context of best evidence and practice, the issue of significant negatives, consent, accountability and legal aspects, appropriate documentation.
A particular feature of this module is the opportunity to practice advance health assessment and leadership skills under the guidance of a clinical preceptor(s) in clinical practice. The module can be taken as a stand alone continuous professional development module or as part of the MSc Advanced Clinical Practice Program (Mental Health).

1. Demonstrate a systematic and comprehensive understanding of theoretical knowledge related to advanced physical health assessment in order to undertake a clinical examination. Knowledge and Understanding,
Learning,
Application,

2. Evaluate and interpret clinical presentations and investigations demonstrating the ability to differentiate between normal and abnormal clinical and diagnostic findings, to take personal responsibility for initiating appropriate interventions and confirming diagnosis.
Enquiry
Problem solving
Communication
Application
Reflection

3. Demonstrates resilience and critical awareness of challenging situations in order to employ the attributes of an advanced clinical practitioner.
Communication,
Reflection,
Analysis,

4. Demonstrates a critical awareness and evaluation of current research,
advanced scholarship, contemporary problems and/or new insights,
much of which is at, or informed by, the forefront of the Advanced Clinical Practice discipline.
Analysis

Several learning strategies are undertaken by students whilst on the module. Theoretical lessons are delivered using a blended strategy approach with online lectures, face to face classroom sessions, and clinical practical sessions in a laboratory environment. Students are also required to undertake directed study listening to podcast, researching case studies. Work placed learning is also an essential strategy where students engage with co-ordinating education supervisors and workplace supervisors. Virtual learning is also utilised utilising the Oxford medical simulation online VLE.

Module Team
Personal Tutors
Skills laboratory
Access to clinical environments
Access to clinically based coordinating education supervisors and workplace supervisors.
Access to the Internet especially for access to e- journals and health websites
Learning Packages

Registered with an appropriate professional body. Students must
be clinically based (with appropriate liability insurance provision employment, or honorary contract,)
have the written support of their manager who will support the student to achieve protected time for
clinical and classroom-based learning and provide written confirmation of an identified clinical preceptor, Co-ordinating education supervisor who must be a senior clinician experienced in the field in which the assessment is to take place (for
example a Consultant/ Specialist Registrar/Psychiatrist or GP or an Advanced Practitioner). Students must have an in date DBS Certificate.

Bickley, L.S. (2020) 13th edition, Bates Guide to Physical Assessment, Lippincott,
Blann, A. (2013), 3rd Edition Routine Blood Results Explained, M&K Update Ltd.
Higgins, C. (2013) 3rd Edition, Understanding Laboratory investigations, A guide for Nurses, Midwives and Health Professionals, Wiley-Blackwell
Jarvis, C, (2016), 7th Edition, Physical Examination and Health Assessment, Saunders (available as e-book from library)
Kim Hyun L, Ho Ryu (2012) Vol 31 Issue 2 Correlation between arterial blood gas analysis and peripheral blood gas analysis in acid -base unbalanced state. Online from PubMed Central
Moore, G (2010) Haematology. Fundamentals of biomedical science. Oxford University Press (available as e-book from library)