Overview

The route is grounded in professional practice and will offer you the opportunity to negotiate, design, implement and evaluate the effectiveness upon service of an advanced work-based project  This will inform the development of professional practice, significantly contribute to service enhancement and contribute to your own continuing professional development.  

The specific focus will be negotiated with the student according to their particular professional interests, in conjunction with their work-based facilitator and the module leader. It promotes an opportunity for the student to demonstrate critical and creative thinking through their approach to practice-based initiatives.

Module aims

To provide the opportunity for the demonstration of the acquisition of Masters level research outcomes through the execution of a professional practice based initiative that falls within the realms of the your professional responsibility.  The approach to this dissertation will enable you to negotiate, design, implement and evaluate the effectiveness upon service of an advanced work-based project  This will inform the development of professional practice, significantly contribute to service enhancement and contribute to the individual's own continuing professional development.

Entry requirements

• Hold current first level Professional Registration with a relevant regulatory body e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).
• Be undertaking the apprenticeship route
• Have an identified work-based facilitator within their practice area, who will support and guide their development
• To be taken prior to the 20 credit EPA module (NUR-40081) to fulfil the Apprenticeship requirements.

Module content

The dissertation year (in conjunction with the clinical effectiveness module) will facilitate your understanding of the philosophical and methodological bases of health care enquiry.

There will be a tripartite meeting between you, the module leader, employer and work-based facilitator (as appropriate) to develop and agree the specific area for exploration (driven through a planning contract), followed by a period of self-directed learning.

Workshops will be organised to assist you with your progress. Preparatory workshops will be run to help the you move on from their initial plan, and into the formal Dissertation stage.  Further workshops will be offered to support the preparation of the dissertation; these will run alongside one-to-one supervision meetings.

Teaching and assessment

A blended learning strategy comprised of:

• Work-based learning (67 hours) undertaken within their work base in conjunction with their work based facilitator.
• Directed Study relating to module content (293 hours).
• Direct teacher contact (40 hours), to include seminar activities, group discussions, supervision, KLE activities and face-to-face tutorials.