This course develops student's skills and specialist knowledge, giving them a deeper understanding and leading to wider career opportunities. With nursing in England becoming an all-graduate profession, further study will help students stay ahead. Higher qualifications demonstrate student’s ambition and aptitude for learning and many of our MSc students and graduates find they achieve promotion during or soon after their course. In fact, in clinical practice, applicants for senior and advanced nursing posts are increasingly expected to possess, or be working towards, masters-level qualifications. The programme's educational framework has been carefully designed to improve healthcare practice and, ultimately, patient care. Therefore student’s assignments will be firmly grounded in the realities they face in the workplace, developing skills and knowledge that will lead to practical benefits for them and their team. This advanced programme of study is aimed at qualified nurses who already have professional nursing experience in their chosen field. As such, it is a vocationally-orientated course, which aims to put students at the cutting-edge of teaching, research and thinking in terms of contemporary nursing practice. The course will give students the skills and experience they need to develop their career and to act as a leader and innovator in the field of nursing.