MSc Emergency Practitioner

Why choose this course?

The MSc Emergency Practitioner is an innovative and exciting course that aims to develop the professional and clinical knowledge and skills important to the Emergency practitioner. The course will support you in developing your ability to find and critically evaluate the evidence base for interventions in practice and identify the implications for your practice. It is designed to enable and empower you to safely and effectively fulfil this dynamic role in practice, facilitating the links between specialist theory and practice and enhancing your critical thinking and decision-making skills.

Potential Career Paths

This course is suitable for experienced staff from a variety of unscheduled care settings including first contact and urgent care centres, minor injury units, primary care, pre-hospital care, out-of-hours services, and emergency departments. On completion of this course you will reflect a knowledgeable and enterprising approach to emergency healthcare and adopt a critical, analytical and imaginative approach to your developing practice.

Emergency Practitioner skills are highly sought after by employers across a variety of healthcare settings. Whether you intend to remain in a largely clinical role or plan a broader, more managerial role in healthcare this course will enable you to showcase your personal and professional development as a practitioner and leader of healthcare services.

You must be a qualified nurse or paramedic or other allied health professional with appropriate current professional registration with a statutory regulator, such as the NMC, HCPC or GPhC. You must have a minimum of 24 months post-registration experience, and be working in a primary care, emergency care, urgent care, unscheduled care, first contact or pre-hospital care setting.