NURSING PRACTICE MODULE YEAR 1 - 2020/1

Module Overview

The module provides the foundation learning upon which students can enter their first placements safely and with confidence.  It introduces them to a range of clinical skills in a simulated environment utilising a range of health care equipment.  It enables them to explore team working and problem solving skills using effective professional communication.  It also introduces students to the evidence base underpinning clinical decision-making and clinical practice.  It ensures students understand the importance of risk assessment and the role it plays in maintaining patient safety.  It enables the students to start their first placements with professional values, understanding how dignity and respect influence patient interaction in accordance with their code of conduct. 

Module provider

School of Health Sciences

Module Leader

BETTLES Simon (Health Sci.)

Number of Credits: 60

ECTS Credits: 30

Framework: FHEQ Level 4

Module cap (Maximum number of students): N/A

Module Availability

Crosses academic years

Prerequisites / Co-requisites

 None

Module content

Indicative content includes:

• a range of clinical skills in a simulated environment utilising a range of health care equipment


• team working and problem solving skills


• safe and effective professional communication


• inter professional and interagency working


• evidence base underpinning clinical decision-making and clinical practice


• holistic assessment in relation to one’s own practice


• risk assessment and the role it plays in maintaining patient safety


• professional values, dignity and respect


• codes of conduct

Assessment pattern

Alternative Assessment

N/A With the exception of the Medicine Management Calculations Exam – Safe Medicate, which is a pass/fail component, however with a pass mark of 90% in year 1 in order to meet the NMC Standards of Education (2010).

Assessment Strategy

The assessment strategy is designed to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate a wide range of practice based competencies, in order to achieve the criteria set by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).  Thus allowing them to meet the requirements of progression point 1 whilst in clinical practice.

Thus, the summative assessment for this module consists of:

• Clinical Grading Tool


• Snap Shot Assessment


• Medicine Management Exam - Authentic World


• Medicine Management MCQ Exam - On-Line


• Clinical Practice Examination

• Formative Medicine Management Exam - Authentic World


• Medicine Management MCQ Exam - On-Line


• Formative Clinical Practice Examination

• Continuous feedback from teaching fellows within theory blocks


• Continuous feedback from practice mentors whilst on placement


• Formative feedback following formative assessments


• Self-tests


• Online feedback following summative assessments: Clinical Grading Tool, Snap Shot Assessment & Clinical Practice Exam.

Module aims

• The aim of this module is to enable students to develop a range of clinical practice experiences initially using simulation within the context of professional practice in order to prepare them for a range of clinical placements. By utilising the experiences of service users', students will be prepared to meet the emotional, physical and psychological needs of clients across the lifespan; acknowledging diversity within the general population. 

Learning outcomes

Methods of Teaching / Learning

The learning and teaching strategy is designed to:

 

This module delivers a link between theory and practice, providing a scaffold of fundamental skills and professional practice which are developed using simulation in semester 1 & 2 and then within clinical placement. The underpinning theory draws on Dewey, Bruner, Watson and Schön, integrating patient centred experiential learning, reinforced by repetition, theory and reflection. The simulated practice includes—but is not defined by—clinical skills, and instead incorporates the learning of skills into holistic scenarios of varying complexity.

 

The learning and teaching methods include:

• Simulation


• Lectures


• Seminars


• Online – self-test / additional learning materials / discussion boards / student forums


• Classroom discussions


• Student-led seminars


• Lectures


• Problem based learning


• Case studies / scenarios


• Experiential learning


• Mentor supervised practice placement experience

Indicated Lecture Hours (which may also include seminars, tutorials, workshops and other contact time) are approximate and may include in-class tests where one or more of these are an assessment on the module. In-class tests are scheduled/organised separately to taught content and will be published on to student personal timetables, where they apply to taken modules, as soon as they are finalised by central administration. This will usually be after the initial publication of the teaching timetable for the relevant semester.

Reading list

https://readinglists.surrey.ac.uk
Upon accessing the reading list, please search for the module using the module code: NUR1020

Programmes this module appears in

Please note that the information detailed within this record is accurate at the time of publishing and may be subject to change. This record contains information for the most up to date version of the programme / module for the 2020/1 academic year.