MSc Paediatrics & Child Healthcare Practice

Program Overview

The MSc Paediatrics & Child Healthcare Practice program at Middlesex University, offered in partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital, provides healthcare practitioners with a flexible and individualized pathway to enhance their knowledge and competence in paediatric healthcare. Through a combination of optional modules and a compulsory research project, learners develop advanced skills in specialized areas, fostering mastery in healthcare-related competence and knowledge. The program emphasizes critical thinking, ethical practice, and inter-professional collaboration, preparing graduates for more senior roles and clinical-academic careers.

Program Outline

• Offered by: Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and Middlesex University
• Location: Online and on campus in London
• Mode of study: Part-time
• Typical duration: 3-4 years
• Course leader: Joanna Slater
• Program highlights:
• Taught by experts from GOSH, a world-leading children's hospital.
• Individualized, flexible study pathway.
• Recognition of prior learning (RPL) available.
• Clinically specialized modules enhancing program's applicability.
• Fosters mastery in healthcare-related competence and knowledge.
• Facilitates acquisition of advanced research skills.

Degree Overview:

• Overview: Enables healthcare practitioners to pursue individualised, modular pathways for postgraduate study, focusing on enhancing their knowledge and competence in their specific area.
Provides opportunities for professional and personal development, advancing paediatric healthcare practice.
• Aims:
• Equip learners with informed, critical, and ethical approach to postgraduate study and professional practice.
• Enable demonstration of broadened level of responsibility and autonomy.
• Encourage mastery of specialized knowledge and competence.
• Empower influence and/or leadership in service development and improvement.
• Promote originality of thought, initiative, decision-making, and strategic thinking.
• Foster inter-professional collaboration in daily practice.

Outline:

• Structure: Combines optional modules with a compulsory project.
• Modules:
Choices include:
• Carer for Children & Young People with Cancer
• Critical Care Levels 1 & 2
• Infection Prevention & Control for Children
• Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy in Children & Young People
• Clinical Skills in Paediatric Ventilator Management
• Foundations of Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing (PICU 1)
• Care of the Child with Cardiac and Respiratory Compromise (PICU 2)
• Nursing Interventions for the Child in Paediatric Intensive Care (PICU 3)
• Care of Children & Young People Undergoing ECMO
• Haematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant (HSCT)
• Fundamental Care of Children & Young People
• Preceptorship in Practice
• Orthopaedic or Spinal Conditions
• Essential Care of the Neonate
• Principles of Neonatal Critical Care
• Caring for Children with a Cardiac Condition
• Caring for Children with a Renal Condition
• Neuroscience & Craniofacial Conditions
• Mental Health & Psychological Development of Children
• Recovery Room Care
• Advanced Practitioner Inquiry
• Service Development & Quality Improvement
• Compulsory Module:
• Developing Research Capabilities (60 credits)

Assessment:

• Types of assessment:
• Formative:
Critical case studies, peer presentations, quizzes, reflective discussions.
• Summative: Case studies, reflection on practice, portfolios, service reviews, reports, OSCAs, viva voce, research presentations.
• **Assessment methods vary according to chosen modules.

Teaching:

• Learning methods:
• Practice-based learning and portfolio development.
• Lectures, seminars, and workshops.
• Small group work and feedback.
• Viva voce, case studies, and problem-based scenarios.
• Role play, webinars, debates.
• E-learning, one-on-one supervision, and self-directed learning.
• Faculty: Includes program leader, module leaders, and subject matter experts.
• Approach: Integrates theory and practice, encourages critical thinking and synthesis, enhances academic and clinical expertise.

Careers:

• Completion demonstrates commitment to CPD, lifelong learning, practice research, and development.
• Potential for more senior roles, clinical-academic careers, doctoral study.
• Enhances employability and ability to influence service development.

Other:

• Learners admitted must be working with children and young people in a healthcare setting.
• Previous degree or equivalent required.
• Non-degree holders with completed level 6 or 7 CPD modules may be admitted through RPL.
• Successful completion of modules and program provides evidence for CPD with NMC or other regulatory body.