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Northumbria University has an established reputation for excellence and innovation in nursing education. We are working closely with our NHS partners to deliver a pre-registration Nursing Science Masters that embodies the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s ‘Future Nurse’ standards, to equip you to lead your profession.
This two-year Masters will allow graduates from any undergraduate subject to build on their experience in a caring role, and graduate with NMC Registration. Studying within the requirements of the new NMC standards means that you will be prepared for rapid career progression within Children and Young People's Nursing, especially when combined with the high-level attributes that you will acquire as a Northumbria postgraduate.
You will study partially at our Coach Lane Campus, and partially on placement, with both strands running alongside each other to give you an integrated approach to theory and practice. You will study within the standard university semester system, allowing time during the Easter and summer breaks for additional projects and internships – or simply a well-earned rest.
This programme will equip you to be curious, creative and collaborative in your care. It will allow your compassion to thrive within an evidence-based approach. And it will enable you to make a genuine impact on the health and wellbeing of your young clients and patients.
If you're looking for something else in nursing then take a look at our wide range ofNHS Funded Nursing Coursesand, our undergraduate courses you may also be interested in: , Child Nursing Science BSc (Hons)
Northumbria University has an established reputation for excellence and innovation in nursing education. We are working closely with our NHS partners to deliver a pre-registration Nursing Science Masters that embodies the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s ‘Future Nurse’ standards, to equip you to lead your profession.
This two-year Masters will allow graduates from any undergraduate subject to build on their experience in a caring role, and graduate with NMC Registration. Studying within the requirements of the new NMC standards means that you will be prepared for rapid career progression within Children and Young People's Nursing, especially when combined with the high-level attributes that you will acquire as a Northumbria postgraduate.
You will study partially at our Coach Lane Campus, and partially on placement, with both strands running alongside each other to give you an integrated approach to theory and practice. You will study within the standard university semester system, allowing time during the Easter and summer breaks for additional projects and internships – or simply a well-earned rest.
This programme will equip you to be curious, creative and collaborative in your care. It will allow your compassion to thrive within an evidence-based approach. And it will enable you to make a genuine impact on the health and wellbeing of your young clients and patients.
If you're looking for something else in nursing then take a look at our wide range ofNHS Funded Nursing Coursesand, our undergraduate courses you may also be interested in: , Child Nursing Science BSc (Hons)
Course Information
Level of Study
Postgraduate
Mode of Study
2 years Full Time
Department
Nursing, Midwifery & Health
Location
Coach Lane Campus, Northumbria University
City
Newcastle
Start
January 2025
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Throughout this course you will experience a range of creative and challenging learning opportunities and different environments. This will enable you to grow, personally and professionally, within safe and supportive spaces.
Our concept-based approach will allow you to build the complexity of your understanding gradually over the course of your studies. It will encourage you to question and think critically, establishing a healthy learning habit that will last throughout your career.
Your learning experience will be enhanced by the use of innovative technology – all lectures will be delivered electronically, so that you can get the most out of your time with staff during seminars, discussion groups and practical sessions. This will also encourage you to develop excellent communication and interpersonal skills, which you can use in your delivery of safe, effective and compassionate care.
In addition, we’ll use the supported online learning environment to enhance your digital skills within practice, and to help you understand and promote the use of digital technology as a solution within care settings.
Your assessments will be balanced between theory and practice, with essays evenly spaced through the year. Your supervision and assessment on placement will be extremely supportive, based on a model designed in collaboration with our partnership organisations, and will be structured to encourage you to develop the necessary proficiencies at the highest level.
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You will be supported throughout your time at Northumbria by a truly remarkable team of highly experienced academics and practitioners. Ourstaff are experts in their field; they use their diverse range of skillsand experience to help develop the next generation of caring,compassionate and competent health professionals.
You’ll benefit from our Personal Tutor system, Learning Leaders programme, and close partnership working with Practice Supervisors and Assessors, all of which play a part in ensuring you meet University and NMC expectations. We will all coach you towards independent learning and personal and professional achievements, as you journey towards graduation and registration.
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At our base on Coach Lane Campus you will benefit from state-of-the-art teaching and practice facilities, and from being immersed in an environment dedicated to the study of healthcare.
Our innovativeClinical Skills Centrereplicates a range of nursing environments and situations. Its virtual reality equipment, high fidelity Simulated Mannequins (SimMan and SimBaby), and immersive technologies will allow you to practise skills, challenge your learning and develop confidence in your clinical ability – all within a safe environment.
If you are an international student, you will have access to Academic Language Skills (ALS) sessions to help you develop your academic language, writing and study skills. These sessions will run throughout the course.
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Research is vital to the evolution of healthcare, and this postgraduate course will equip you to play a valuable role in generating new knowledge within the nursing profession.
Research-rich learning will be embedded throughout the course, culminating in a dissertation that will allow you to explore a topic of your choice in significant depth. You will have the option to conduct an empirical study, undertaking hands-on research supported by tutors with specialist knowledge in that area.
Our academic staff have extensive research experience across nursing, midwifery and health, where our work informs policy and practice to improve quality, safety and effectiveness. Our areas of research strength include Ageing, Later Life & Long-term Conditions (ALL), Healthcare Organisation, Practice Improvement & Economics (HOPE), and Healthcare Education and Learning for Practice and Patient Safety (HELPPS).
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This course will lead directly to Registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), under the new Standards, which will allow you to start and quickly progress in your nursing career.
The NMC’s ‘Future Nurse’ change programme seeks to drive forward changes in the profession, and we have embedded research, leadership and advanced practice strands throughout the course to equip you to play a key role in those future developments.
You will graduate as an accountable professional who has the knowledge and skills to promote health and prevent ill health; assess, plan, provide, co-ordinate and evaluate care; lead and manage nursing care and work in teams; and improve safety and quality of care.
At Northumbria we have long-standing strong relationships with our partnership Trusts, and we have developed this new course in close collaboration with them as well as with a wide range of experts by experience. This will ensure that the course prepares you for practice in exactly the way employers are seeking, so that you benefit from our consistently high employment rates.
The course will also provide ideal preparation for further study at doctoral level.
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Entry Requirements 2023/24
Standard Entry
Applicants should normally have:
A minimum of a 2:2 honours degree or equivalent in any subject, and GCSEs at Grade 4 (Grade C) or above in English Language and Mathematics.
Other subject qualifications, equivalent professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be considered on an individual basis.
Additional requirements:
Applicants will be required to attend an interview. Following interview, applicants will be asked to complete an RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) document to provide evidence of undertaking a minimum of 500 hours of occupational or voluntary care work, and a minimum of 700 hours of appropriate theoretical learning and understanding, which can be evidenced from a previous degree and practice.
Admission is subject to a suitable DBS Enhanced Certificate and a satisfactory health check. Applicants must meet the Nursing and Midwifery Council's suitability for registration requirements.
International qualifications:
If you have studied a non UK qualification, you can see how your qualifications compare to the standard entry criteria, by selecting the country that you received the qualification in, from our country pages. Visitwww.northumbria.ac.uk/yourcountry
English language requirements:
International applicants are required to have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 7.0 with at least 6.5 in the written section and at least 7 in the reading, listening and speaking sections.
The university accepts a large number of UK and International Qualifications in place of IELTS. You can find details of acceptable tests and the required grades you will need in our English Language section. Visitwww.northumbria.ac.uk/englishqualifications
For further admissions guidance and requirements, please visitwww.northumbria.ac.uk/admissionsguidancePlease review this information before submitting your application.
Entry Requirements 2024/25
Standard Entry
Applicants should normally have:
A minimum of a 2:2 honours degree or equivalent in any subject, and GCSEs at Grade 4 (Grade C) or above in English Language and Mathematics.
Other subject qualifications, equivalent professional qualifications and/or relevant work experience will be considered on an individual basis.
Additional requirements:
Applicants will be required to attend an interview. Following interview, applicants will be asked to complete an RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) document to provide evidence of undertaking a minimum of 500 hours of occupational or voluntary care work, and a minimum of 700 hours of appropriate theoretical learning and understanding, which can be evidenced from a previous degree and practice.
Admission is subject to a suitable DBS Enhanced Certificate and a satisfactory health check. Applicants must meet the Nursing and Midwifery Council's suitability for registration requirements.
International qualifications:
If you have studied a non UK qualification, you can see how your qualifications compare to the standard entry criteria, by selecting the country that you received the qualification in, from our country pages. Visitwww.northumbria.ac.uk/yourcountry
English language requirements:
International applicants should have a minimum overall IELTS (Academic) score of 7.0 with 6.5 in each component orOccupational English Test (OET) with at least a grade B (350 to 440) in reading, listening and speaking, and at least a grade C+ (300 to 340) in writing.
For further admissions guidance and requirements, please visitwww.northumbria.ac.uk/admissionsguidancePlease review this information before submitting your application.
Fees and Funding 2023/24 Entry
UK Fee in Year 1: £9,250
EU Fee in Year 1: £17,500
International Fee in Year 1: £17,500
Scholarships and Discounts
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ADDITIONAL COSTS
You will be required to purchase a fob watch and suitable footwear for use in placement, which will cost approximately £80. You will need to pay for your own travel costs, which may be approximately £800 per year depending on your placement location. You may be eligible to claim reimbursem*nt of travel costs from the NHS Business Authority. Up to date information relating to this can be found at: https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/student-services. If using a car to attend placement, you may also need to pay parking charges of approximately £200 per year. On completion of the programme you will be eligible to register with the Nursing Midwifery Council and the cost is approximately £120.
Fees and Funding 2024/25 Entry
UK Fee in Year 1: £9,250
EU Fee in Year 1: £18,250
International Fee in Year 1: £18,250
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Modules Overview 2023/24
Modules
Module information is indicative and is reviewed annually therefore may be subject to change. Applicants will be informed if there are any changes.
Year one Year two
Year one
CN0704 -
Applied Life Science for Children and Young Person's Nursing (20 Credits)
This module will introduce the concept of safe nursing practice, effective communication, medicine management, and the proficiencies of physical assessment. This module will be taught across the year aligned to your learning within CN0705 and CN0706 bringing together theory and practice to facilitate your development as a safe and effective practitioner. You will learn how to observe and assess children and young people in terms of symptoms and signs of physical ill health. You will learn how to take, record and interpret a patient’s vital signs and use communication tools to support verbal and written reports as well as basic medicine calculation and management. You will develop fundamental nursing skills to act in a holistic, individualised, non-judgemental, and honest way, with integrity, and apply principles of The Code (Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 2018a).
You will be taught by experts and practice these skills in a variety of simulated education activities, utilizing a range of specialist technology such as human patient simulators alongside specialist equipment and immersive interactive environments within the clinical skills centre. These dynamic learning opportunities will support you to develop knowledge and gather evidence, which will inform your attainment of your Ongoing Record of Achievement (ORA).
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CN0705 -
Promoting Health and Preventing Ill Health in Children and Young People's Nursing (20 Credits)
Encouraging and supporting families with regards to lifestyle changes that could improve their health is an element of nursing that you will undertake in both community and hospital environments. You will be introduced to key concepts in contemporary public health promoting the health and wellbeing of children, young people, families and communities through the facilitation of health enhancing activities.
You will increase your knowledge and awareness of a range of strategies to support children and young people and their family in promoting health and preventing ill health. This will include a range of health promotion approaches and models and developing your skills in promoting behaviour change in your professional practice. You will explore the relationship between the wider health determinants of health, wellbeing and health inequalities incorporating skills required to understand and undertake community profiling.
By building upon the skills and knowledge from concurrent modules you will be able to show resilience and tenacity within the often-challenging situations faced in with regard to health promotion in clinical practice. Through developing assessment and communication skills using evidence-based knowledge you will have a comprehensive and holistic approach to managing care in partnership with the child / young person and family.
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CN0706 -
Assessing and planning for complex on-going needs in Children and Young Person's Nursing (20 Credits)
You will gain a thorough understanding of the complexities of nursing children and young people. This module addresses the care needs of children and young people with additional needs, including those living with acute, long-term or life limiting illness. Undertaking this module will encourage you to explore the variety of roles performed by the children’s nurse in different settings and think critically about the knowledge needed to fulfil these roles. You will also examine complexities of multi-disciplinary team working within health and social care systems.
You will explore some of the more difficult concepts such as withdrawal of care and the process of dying from a child and young person’s perspective as well as supporting the family. You will explore the role of the nurse in discharge planning and transition, which will provide you with knowledge and skills to support children and young people through this process. The module is delivered through many lenses and involves the views of public and people who use health and care services.
The module requires you to demonstrate your growing skills in academic research, through the appraisal of contemporary literature relating to children and young people with complex care needs. The module explores the philosophical assumptions underpinning contemporary healthcare literature to select appropriate research findings to apply to current children’s nursing practice.
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NS0709 -
Nursing Practice Module 1: Becoming a Safe, Caring Professional (Adult) (Child) (Learning Disability) (Mental Health) (20 Credits)
This practice module will provide you with a unique opportunity to develop skills and knowledge directly relevant to your current practice placement experiences. The practice module will both support your learning while you are in practice and provide an environment, within university, to consolidate the skills and knowledge necessary to progress effectively. By using a concept curriculum approach, the nursing practice module will support you to learn how to become an accountable professional, lead and manage nursing care, and work in teams.
During the first year, you will learn the fundamental skills that are necessary for safe, effective and professional practice.
During the majority of your first year clinical placements you will return to university for two days a week to reflect on your experiences. You will learn together with your peers and examine theoretical concepts such as professionalism, interprofessional learning, medicines management and safeguarding that will enhance your practice. Seminars and workshops will focus on a range of subjects that will enhance your professional nursing practice. Innovative teaching and learning strategies will be used to enhance your learning, This will include the use of digital educational resources to support your learning in relation to concepts such as medicines management.
You will learn how to develop your Ongoing Record of Achievement (ORA) and how to reflect on your personal and professional development. You will learn about the importance of patient centred and recovery focussed approaches and will be asked to reflect on feedback given by Experts By Experience (EBE). These skills are the start of your development as an evidence-based practitioner.
More information
RV7000 -
Academic Language Skills(ALS) for PG Nursing and Midwifery students (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
Academic skills when studying away from your home country can differ due to cultural and language differences in teaching and assessment practices. This module is designed to support your transition in the use and practice of technical language and subject specific skills around assessments and teaching provision in your chosen subject. The overall aim of this module is to develop your abilities to read and study effectively for academic purposes; to develop your skills in analysing and using source material in seminars and academic writing and to develop your use and application of language and communications skills to a higher level.
The topics you will cover on the module include:
•Understanding assignment briefs and exam questions.
•Developing academic writing skills, including citation, paraphrasing, and summarising.
•Practising ‘critical reading’ and ‘critical writing’
•Planning and structuring academic assignments (e.g. essays, reports and presentations).
•Avoiding academic misconduct and gaining credit by using academic sources and referencing effectively.
•Listening skills for lectures.
•Speaking in seminar presentations.
•Presenting your ideas
•Giving discipline-related academic presentations, experiencing peer observation, and receiving formative feedback.
•Speed reading techniques.
•Developing self-reflection skills.
•Discussing ethical issues in research, and analysing results.
•Describing bias and limitations of research.
More information
Year two
CN0707 -
Principles of Innovative Nursing Practice in Children and Young People's Nursing (20 Credits)
This module will consolidate the concepts and nursing interventions considered within the previous skills module in year one. You will develop an array of advanced nursing skills required for innovative practice such as cannulation, venepuncture and chest osculation with children and young people, exploring the care required and the impact this has on the patient and family. You will continue to have the opportunity to practice skills in the Clinical Skills Centre utilising a range of specialist technologies such as human patient simulators and immersive interactive environments underpinned by online learning resources contained within the BlackBoard Ultra site. You will bring your developed communication skills, as well as previous knowledge and experience, to learning advanced nursing interventions in support of your leadership and management placement and the requirements for being a new registrant.
These dynamic learning opportunities will help in gathering evidence and aid you in the completion of your Ongoing Record of Achievement (ORA), demonstrating that you are capable of independent practice and celebrating your achievements.
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NS0710 -
Nursing Practice Module (2) Leadership, Quality and Team Work in Nursing Practice (Adult) (Child) (LD) (MH) (20 Credits)
This module, which is based in practice, will provide you with the opportunity to advance your skills and knowledge supported by year one practice placement experiences and prepare you for working life as a registered nurse. The module content will specifically focus on leadership, quality and team work, learning will be blended between recall days at the university and online via BlackBoard Ultra as we support your transition to be a registered nurse.
By using a concept curriculum approach, the nursing practice module will support you to become an accountable professional, working in teams to lead and manage quality nursing care. Within the context of your practice placements, you will critically reflect and debate contemporary theories and explore service improvement models, which support sustainable service improvement. Applying your knowledge of team and interprofessional working you will learn how to coordinate safe and effective high quality-care. This will include a collaborative approach embedding the views of service users, lay carers and colleagues in the delivery and enhancement of care. You will be provided opportunities to critically reflect on your own personal and professional responsibility for your continued development as a manager and future leader of service improvement. You will learn how to manage uncertainty and put into practice the strategies that develop resilience in yourself and others.
Through dynamic learning opportunities in practice you will gather evidence to aid completion of your North East Electronic Practice Assessment Document (NEEPAD). Through critical reflection and self-assessment you will complete your Ongoing Record of Achievement (ORA) demonstrating your capability and readiness for independent practice. This demonstrates to a future employer that you are fit to practise as a registered nurse caring for people of all ages and across all care settings.
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NS0711 -
Developing Nursing Practice through Research (60 Credits)
This module will build directly on the proficiencies outlined in Platform 7: Coordinating care, in the NMC (2018) Future Nurse: Standards of proficiency for registered nurses. You will have the opportunity to apply principles of partnership, collaboration and interagency working to research and the development of a research idea. You will be encouraged to understand health legislation and current health and social care policies, which influence health research and research priorities. You will be provided with the principles of health economics as an area of health research and explore other areas and research methodologies. These areas of knowledge will be used to inform a dissertation designed to explore an area of challenge when providing safe, effective and person-centred nursing care for people of all ages. This is a year long module providing the time to develop a research topic, which reflects the complexities of providing mental, cognitive, behavioural and physical care in the clinical settings most relevant to your field of registration. You will have the opportunity to work alongside research staff, assess and direct the development of your research skills and present your research proposal in both written and verbal forms.
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Modules Overview 2024/25
Modules
Module information is indicative and is reviewed annually therefore may be subject to change. Applicants will be informed if there are any changes.
Year one Year two
Year one
CN0704 -
Applied Life Science for Children and Young Person's Nursing (20 Credits)
This module will introduce the concept of safe nursing practice, effective communication, medicine management, and the proficiencies of physical assessment. This module will be taught across the year aligned to your learning within CN0705 and CN0706 bringing together theory and practice to facilitate your development as a safe and effective practitioner. You will learn how to observe and assess children and young people in terms of symptoms and signs of physical ill health. You will learn how to take, record and interpret a patient’s vital signs and use communication tools to support verbal and written reports as well as basic medicine calculation and management. You will develop fundamental nursing skills to act in a holistic, individualised, non-judgemental, and honest way, with integrity, and apply principles of The Code (Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) 2018a).
You will be taught by experts and practice these skills in a variety of simulated education activities, utilizing a range of specialist technology such as human patient simulators alongside specialist equipment and immersive interactive environments within the clinical skills centre. These dynamic learning opportunities will support you to develop knowledge and gather evidence, which will inform your attainment of your Ongoing Record of Achievement (ORA).
More information
CN0705 -
Promoting Health and Preventing Ill Health in Children and Young People's Nursing (20 Credits)
Encouraging and supporting families with regards to lifestyle changes that could improve their health is an element of nursing that you will undertake in both community and hospital environments. You will be introduced to key concepts in contemporary public health promoting the health and wellbeing of children, young people, families and communities through the facilitation of health enhancing activities.
You will increase your knowledge and awareness of a range of strategies to support children and young people and their family in promoting health and preventing ill health. This will include a range of health promotion approaches and models and developing your skills in promoting behaviour change in your professional practice. You will explore the relationship between the wider health determinants of health, wellbeing and health inequalities incorporating skills required to understand and undertake community profiling.
By building upon the skills and knowledge from concurrent modules you will be able to show resilience and tenacity within the often-challenging situations faced in with regard to health promotion in clinical practice. Through developing assessment and communication skills using evidence-based knowledge you will have a comprehensive and holistic approach to managing care in partnership with the child / young person and family.
More information
CN0706 -
Assessing and planning for complex on-going needs in Children and Young Person's Nursing (20 Credits)
You will gain a thorough understanding of the complexities of nursing children and young people. This module addresses the care needs of children and young people with additional needs, including those living with acute, long-term or life limiting illness. Undertaking this module will encourage you to explore the variety of roles performed by the children’s nurse in different settings and think critically about the knowledge needed to fulfil these roles. You will also examine complexities of multi-disciplinary team working within health and social care systems.
You will explore some of the more difficult concepts such as withdrawal of care and the process of dying from a child and young person’s perspective as well as supporting the family. You will explore the role of the nurse in discharge planning and transition, which will provide you with knowledge and skills to support children and young people through this process. The module is delivered through many lenses and involves the views of public and people who use health and care services.
The module requires you to demonstrate your growing skills in academic research, through the appraisal of contemporary literature relating to children and young people with complex care needs. The module explores the philosophical assumptions underpinning contemporary healthcare literature to select appropriate research findings to apply to current children’s nursing practice.
More information
NS0709 -
Nursing Practice Module 1: Becoming a Safe, Caring Professional (Adult) (Child) (Learning Disability) (Mental Health) (20 Credits)
This practice module will provide you with a unique opportunity to develop skills and knowledge directly relevant to your current practice placement experiences. The practice module will both support your learning while you are in practice and provide an environment, within university, to consolidate the skills and knowledge necessary to progress effectively. By using a concept curriculum approach, the nursing practice module will support you to learn how to become an accountable professional, lead and manage nursing care, and work in teams.
During the first year, you will learn the fundamental skills that are necessary for safe, effective and professional practice.
During the majority of your first year clinical placements you will return to university for two days a week to reflect on your experiences. You will learn together with your peers and examine theoretical concepts such as professionalism, interprofessional learning, medicines management and safeguarding that will enhance your practice. Seminars and workshops will focus on a range of subjects that will enhance your professional nursing practice. Innovative teaching and learning strategies will be used to enhance your learning, This will include the use of digital educational resources to support your learning in relation to concepts such as medicines management.
You will learn how to develop your Ongoing Record of Achievement (ORA) and how to reflect on your personal and professional development. You will learn about the importance of patient centred and recovery focussed approaches and will be asked to reflect on feedback given by Experts By Experience (EBE). These skills are the start of your development as an evidence-based practitioner.
More information
RV7000 -
Academic Language Skills(ALS) for PG Nursing and Midwifery students (Core – for International and EU students only,0 Credits)
Academic skills when studying away from your home country can differ due to cultural and language differences in teaching and assessment practices. This module is designed to support your transition in the use and practice of technical language and subject specific skills around assessments and teaching provision in your chosen subject. The overall aim of this module is to develop your abilities to read and study effectively for academic purposes; to develop your skills in analysing and using source material in seminars and academic writing and to develop your use and application of language and communications skills to a higher level.
The topics you will cover on the module include:
•Understanding assignment briefs and exam questions.
•Developing academic writing skills, including citation, paraphrasing, and summarising.
•Practising ‘critical reading’ and ‘critical writing’
•Planning and structuring academic assignments (e.g. essays, reports and presentations).
•Avoiding academic misconduct and gaining credit by using academic sources and referencing effectively.
•Listening skills for lectures.
•Speaking in seminar presentations.
•Presenting your ideas
•Giving discipline-related academic presentations, experiencing peer observation, and receiving formative feedback.
•Speed reading techniques.
•Developing self-reflection skills.
•Discussing ethical issues in research, and analysing results.
•Describing bias and limitations of research.
More information
Year two
CN0707 -
Principles of Innovative Nursing Practice in Children and Young People's Nursing (20 Credits)
This module will consolidate the concepts and nursing interventions considered within the previous skills module in year one. You will develop an array of advanced nursing skills required for innovative practice such as cannulation, venepuncture and chest osculation with children and young people, exploring the care required and the impact this has on the patient and family. You will continue to have the opportunity to practice skills in the Clinical Skills Centre utilising a range of specialist technologies such as human patient simulators and immersive interactive environments underpinned by online learning resources contained within the BlackBoard Ultra site. You will bring your developed communication skills, as well as previous knowledge and experience, to learning advanced nursing interventions in support of your leadership and management placement and the requirements for being a new registrant.
These dynamic learning opportunities will help in gathering evidence and aid you in the completion of your Ongoing Record of Achievement (ORA), demonstrating that you are capable of independent practice and celebrating your achievements.
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Nursing Practice Module (2) Leadership, Quality and Team Work in Nursing Practice (Adult) (Child) (LD) (MH) (20 Credits)
This module, which is based in practice, will provide you with the opportunity to advance your skills and knowledge supported by year one practice placement experiences and prepare you for working life as a registered nurse. The module content will specifically focus on leadership, quality and team work, learning will be blended between recall days at the university and online via BlackBoard Ultra as we support your transition to be a registered nurse.
By using a concept curriculum approach, the nursing practice module will support you to become an accountable professional, working in teams to lead and manage quality nursing care. Within the context of your practice placements, you will critically reflect and debate contemporary theories and explore service improvement models, which support sustainable service improvement. Applying your knowledge of team and interprofessional working you will learn how to coordinate safe and effective high quality-care. This will include a collaborative approach embedding the views of service users, lay carers and colleagues in the delivery and enhancement of care. You will be provided opportunities to critically reflect on your own personal and professional responsibility for your continued development as a manager and future leader of service improvement. You will learn how to manage uncertainty and put into practice the strategies that develop resilience in yourself and others.
Through dynamic learning opportunities in practice you will gather evidence to aid completion of your North East Electronic Practice Assessment Document (NEEPAD). Through critical reflection and self-assessment you will complete your Ongoing Record of Achievement (ORA) demonstrating your capability and readiness for independent practice. This demonstrates to a future employer that you are fit to practise as a registered nurse caring for people of all ages and across all care settings.
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Developing Nursing Practice through Research (60 Credits)
This module will build directly on the proficiencies outlined in Platform 7: Coordinating care, in the NMC (2018) Future Nurse: Standards of proficiency for registered nurses. You will have the opportunity to apply principles of partnership, collaboration and interagency working to research and the development of a research idea. You will be encouraged to understand health legislation and current health and social care policies, which influence health research and research priorities. You will be provided with the principles of health economics as an area of health research and explore other areas and research methodologies. These areas of knowledge will be used to inform a dissertation designed to explore an area of challenge when providing safe, effective and person-centred nursing care for people of all ages. This is a year long module providing the time to develop a research topic, which reflects the complexities of providing mental, cognitive, behavioural and physical care in the clinical settings most relevant to your field of registration. You will have the opportunity to work alongside research staff, assess and direct the development of your research skills and present your research proposal in both written and verbal forms.
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