MSc Specialist Practice Nursing (Top Up)

University of Surrey

This top-up masters course is open to graduates of our SPQ and SCPHN specialist practice PGDip programmes, from the September 2024 cohort onwards. You’ll get the chance to complete a dissertation that is relevant to your professional practice and develop critical skills that will help advance your career. Complete an original dissertation project which will be relevant to your healthcare practice, and which could have a significant impact on healthcare service design, service users or workforce experience.Develop skills in research and critical thinking, as well as writing, translating knowledge into practice, literature reviewing and digital competency.Gain a qualification that will help you to progress to more senior roles, such as advanced practice, management, leadership and education, and open up research opportunities.Take advantage of a highly flexible course, which you can start up to five years after completing your postgraduate diploma.On this course, you will plan, undertake and report on a substantial original project that is relevant to your professional practice and workplace organisation.Your project may involve:Developing a research question and outlining the relevant policy contextCarrying out a literature reviewDeveloping a robust methodologyCollecting, identifying, analysing and synthesising dataCritically discussing the relevance of your findings to practice and current knowledge in healthcare.You’ll be assigned a supervisor who will support you throughout the course.