First choice for health
Delivered by professional experts, our programmes are tailored to you and your career. Together, we address today's most challenging healthcare issues, through research-informed teaching and active, real-world learning.
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Key features
- Start your professional development journey by gaining an understanding of the complexities involved in advancing your role in practice and develop a deeper understanding on the positive impact this will have in your own clinical area.
- Explore and understand the role of advancing practice in an ever changing health service and where that role fits in the strategic picture of the NHS in the 21st century.
- Find opportunities to transform services in your own clinical area and gain knowledge and appreciation of other professions, specialities and organisations who contribute to patient/client care.
- Be supported to develop relationships with other healthcare professionals and work more effectively across professional and organisational boundaries to enhance patient/client care.
- Become a critical thinking practitioner with a range of transferable skills who can effectively contribute to service enhancement.
- Use the best available evidence, contemporary knowledge and high-level clinical decision-making skills to underpin interventions.
- Develop confidence, competence and emotional resilience to consistently exercise personal responsibility and professional accountability for decision making and the provision of high-quality safe care.
- Undertake a programme that enables choice and values prior experiential learning and experience; targeted at the career development needs of a wide range of healthcare professionals.
- Flexibly designed programme enabling you to ‘step on and step off’ over a five-year period in response to service need and professional circumstances.
Course details
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Year 1
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This programme offers the awards of BSc /BSc (Hons), Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma.BSc – to achieve a BSc you will need to earn 80 credits by undertaking four 20 credit modulesBSc (Hons) – to achieve a BSc (Hons) you will need to earn 120 credits by undertaking five modules – four 20 credit modules and one 40 credit modulesStudents who have previously obtained a health related degree at 2:2 or above are eligible to access the programme via the Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma route – please see panel below for further details.The module ‘HEAD361 – Independent study’ is only a core module for students who wish to achieve the BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Advancing Practice.For further information on the modules that make up this programme please visit the
BSc (Hons)/BSc Professional Development modules webage.
The modules shown for this course are those currently being studied by our students, or are proposed new modules. Please note that programme structures and individual modules are subject to amendment from time to time as part of the University’s curriculum enrichment programme and in line with changes in the University’s policies and requirements.
Entry requirements
Contextual offers: Typically, the contextual offer for this course is 8 points below the advertised tariff. A contextual offer is an offer to study at university that takes into account individual circumstances that are beyond your control, and that can potentially impact your learning and your exam results, or your confidence in applying to university.
To be eligible for the BSc or BSc (Hons) programme you will need to be either a registered health and social care professional or a health and social care worker in possession of previous study at level 5 (foundation degree /diploma of higher education).
If you wish to undertake the graduate certificate and graduate diploma award pathways you must already hold an honours degree at 2:2 or above in a health or health related subject.
If you wish to undertake any clinical skills modules as part of your programme you will need to be working in an environment where you can meet the learning outcomes.
Applicants whose first language is not English must also provide evidence of competence in written and spoken English in accordance with the University’s Admissions Code of Practice – minimum overall International English Language Testing System (IELTS) of 6.5 average with a minimum 5.5 in each category.
AP(E)L:
Claims for credit for prior learning, whether certificated or experiential are accepted and will be assessed following University regulations and faculty procedures.
Claims for credit for prior learning, whether certificated or experiential are accepted and will be assessed following University regulations and faculty procedures.
Extended entry requirements
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English language requirements - We welcome applicants with international qualifications. To view other accepted qualifications please refer to our
tariff glossary.
Fees, costs and funding
The fee for this programme is dependent on the modules undertaken. Please see the relevant module web pages for
further information.
Additional costs
This course is delivered by the
Faculty of Health
and more details of any additional costs associated with the faculty's courses are listed on the following page:
Faculty of Health additional costs
.
How to apply
When to apply
Applications for this programme can usually be made throughout the year. Please check the closing date and apply as early as possible as our programmes are popular.
Applications for this programme can usually be made throughout the year. Please check the closing date and apply as early as possible as our programmes are popular.
Apply for this programme
To apply for this programme please complete the
application form
and return via email to:
To apply for this programme please complete the
Email: pduadmissions@plymouth.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1752 586951
What happens after I apply?
You will normally receive a decision on your application within four weeks of us receiving your application. You may be asked to provide additional information, to take part in an interview (which in the case if you are an overseas student may be by telephone or video conference) or you will be sent a decision by letter or email.
You will normally receive a decision on your application within four weeks of us receiving your application. You may be asked to provide additional information, to take part in an interview (which in the case if you are an overseas student may be by telephone or video conference) or you will be sent a decision by letter or email.
If you have a disability and would like further information about the support provided by University of Plymouth, please visit our
Additional support for students with an impairment, health condition or disability
website.
Apply for this programme
Please send applications ONLY via email.
To apply for this programme please complete the
application form
and return via email to:
Email: pduadmissions@plymouth.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1752 586951
Help & enquiries
- Admission enquiries
- pduadmissions@plymouth.ac.uk
- +44 1752 586951
- PlymUniApply
Which modules can I study?
There are a number of core, pathway specific and optional modules associated with the BSc (Hons)/BSc Professional Development course pathways, as well as four different exit awards.
Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma
If you have previously obtained a health related honours degree at 2:2 or above, you are eligible to access this programme via the graduate certificate/diploma route:
Graduate Certificate Professional Development in Advancing Practice – 60 credits at degree level
Graduate Diploma Professional Development in Advancing Practice – 120 credits at degree level
Students seeking to achieve either qualification will be required to achieve the specified number of credits by choosing from a range of pathway specific modules.
Please contact the Professional Development Unit at PDUAdmissions@plymouth.ac.uk for further information.
Opportunities for postgraduate study in nursing
Be at the forefront of changes to the traditional ways of working and become a Clinical Practitioner (CP) with our
MSc Advanced Professional Practice (Clinical Practitioner)
.
You’ll be equipped with the knowledge and skills to assess, diagnose, treat and manage patients who present with undifferentiated and undiagnosed conditions, across all sectors of healthcare.
Certain clinicians can also exit as a non-medical prescriber, i.e. nurses, pharmacists and optometrists can become independent and/or supplementary prescribers, whilst radiographers, physiotherapists and podiatrists can become supplementary prescribers.
Develop significant expertise in your chosen area with our specialist routes:
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BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Advancing Practice
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BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Critical Care
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BSc (Hons) Professional Development in End of Life Care
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BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Health and Social Care
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BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Long Term Conditions
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BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Mental Health
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BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Neonatal Care
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BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Nursing