During year one, you will gain the knowledge, skills and values essential to nursing practice exploring:
Physical and Mental Health Assessment, Pathophysiology and Prescribing Preparation
Human Factors, Risk, Decision Making and Uncertainty and their impact on Nursing
Adult or Mental Health Practice Module (4,5,6) which will consist of 3 Field specific practice placements during the year.
During year two, you will gain the knowledge, skills and values essential to nursing practice exploring:
Care Delivery, Leadership and Management, The Evidence Base for Practice, and, complete a further 3 field specific placements and theory alongside this in the Adult or Mental Health Practice Module (7,8,9).
Whether you complete Adult of Mental health practice placements will depend on the route your are registered on.
All modules are either 20 credits which equates to 200 hours of study time or 40 credits which equates to 400 hours of study time. The specific type of study time varies from module to module and includes scheduled teaching and learning activities, such as online lectures, webinars, videos and briefings, online interactive discussions, individual tutorials, on-campus presentations, simulation exercises, and discussion. Guided independent study hours will include accessing online materials, tasks, discussions, and recommended reading. Independent study hours include preparation of summative assessment and portfolios, reading and researching.