100% online BSc Nursing Studies Top-Up

This module enables you to explore theoretical healthcare perspectives and principles and their impact upon healthcare practice. It explores healthcare theories and models relating to healthcare delivery and outcomes and critically examines contemporary healthcare practice. In this module you will challenge the recognition of professional practice approaches in healthcare settings as a means of identifying changes to your own practice and to that of others.

This module enables you to explore and develop a deeper appreciation of the impact of management and leadership in care delivery, exploring the impact of policy, business needs and resources within healthcare settings. The concepts and principles of teamwork and leadership are investigated, and you will develop an understanding of the influence and strategies adopted to ensure safe and effective practice and to enhance patient or service user outcomes.

This module explores learning theories and develops an understanding of teaching and learning with clearly defined links to practice settings. You will evaluate the approaches to teaching in formal and informal settings and will develop negotiation and feedback skills as part of your professional development. The module examines the nature, reliability and validity of assessment and examines supervision, mentorship and preceptorship as means of encouraging reflective practice.

This module develops your understanding of how to ensure healthcare practice is informed by the best available evidence. You will examine the general principles affecting nursing in professional practice linked to levels of accountability and responsibility, duty of care and candour. This will be informed through investigative research and critical debate, exploring ethical moral principles on a professional and potentially personal level.
Within a professional capacity you will examine and critically debate the concepts of fitness to practice, adherence to policy as well as procedures demonstrating behaviours, attitudes and approaches.

This module provides you with a comprehensive appreciation of the issues surrounding healthcare practice and how to ensure that practice is informed by the best available evidence. The module explores:

• The nature of evidence available to inform practice and discussion around sourcing evidence for practice.
• The introduction to skills of critical appraisal and the debates around how best available evidence can be integrated into healthcare practice and healthcare policy.
• The nature of knowledge and how this underpins nursing and healthcare practice.
• The ethical issues that underpin best practice including consent and risk management.
• The nature of clinical judgment and research integration.
• Moving from research to practice – key steps in integration.
• How to develop a rationale to support a systematic review of your chosen topic for dissertation.

In this module you will explore the principles of research, the skills required and how research can be applied to healthcare; developing an understanding of qualitative and quantitative methodologies, examining the problems associated with data collection and data analysis and the structure of research questions.

For your dissertation, you will develop a critique of an area of current interest within the nursing field. The dissertation will feature a structured systematic literature review including a critical analysis of the reported literature as well as recommendations for nursing and nursing practice.