Nursing (Neuroscience Care) MSc

This master’s course in neuroscience care is aimed at qualified healthcare professionals. We'll prepare you to for a wide variety of roles as a nurse specialist, consultant or educator in a wide variety of professional healthcare settings. You'll develop your intellectual skills to collect and interpret medical information at a higher level. Provides a stepping stone to working at a more advanced level or more senior position that will allow practitioners to realise their full potential. Develop the knowledge to work in your chosen field of practice and attain strategic leadership, management and communication skills. Conduct a research project, laying the foundations for future research work and clinical practice as an evidence-based practitioner. Exit the course with a postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma, or complete the full programme to gain a Master’s degree.

We'll equip you to progress in your career and to work in neuroscience care settings as a clinical expert. You'll learn to lead and develop in nursing practice whilst enhancing patient safety by:

• Gaining a sound systematic knowledge of pathophysiology and medical sciences as applied to neuroscience nursing.
• Applying in-depth critical thinking skills in the making of evidence based clinical decisions in order to provide high quality safe care.
• Acting as a role model in advancing critical care through academic and practice skills applied directly to practice.
• Selecting effective communication strategies with patients, families and carers as well as members of the wider health team.
• Appraising and synthesising information from a wide range of sources and effectively disseminating findings in relation to neuroscience care.
• Responding to thee changing demands of health care practice and promoting the health and wellbeing of patients with neurological problems.

There are a number of exit and award points built into the programme. Students can exit the course with a postgraduate certificate, postgraduate diploma, or can complete the full programme to gain a Master’s degree.

Students need to be a professional register (NMC) with a minimum of 6 months post-qualification experience working in a neuroscience setting.