MSc Nursing Studies

This module focuses on quality improvement and patient safety in healthcare. Healthcare organisations and systems face a common set of performance and people development challenges, and are under unprecedented pressure to deliver high quality care, in a context of rising demand and constrained funding and with an increasing need for innovation and transformation in service design to improve quality and safety. You will explore the foundations of improvement methodology, change models and innovation in healthcare settings.

This module builds on the foundation learning and evaluation of leadership, management and improvement methodologies and explores them in a wider context. It analyses the role of strategic and system approaches to leadership and improvement in the context of wider health and care issues including global healthcare.

This module examines determinants of health, including socio-economic, environmental, individual and family factors. Through critically reviewing health inequalities, it evaluates impacts on health and well-being and considers implications for practitioners, services and policy development.

Through examining diversity in learning theories and approaches, this module explores the implications for nursing knowledge and practice of supporting and educating others within the healthcare setting and professional learning context.

This module explores nursing and the nursing role, its development and issues associated with changes to it. It examines the scope of practice, accountability and interprofessional working and responsibilities – at individual, professional and organisational levels.

As we work in an increasingly technological environment, there is a need to further understand the implications of advances in technology for nurses and the nursing workforce. Through exploring and evaluating issues relating to telehealth and e-learning, this module examines the concept of the ‘e-nurse’ and how to develop capability and capacity in this aspect of providing care and developing services.

This module examines evidence, key concepts and policies related to patient involvement, shared decision-making and involvement, critically reviewing whether there has been a shift from a paternalistic, tokenistic approach to meaningful patient-centred care and involvement. It explores this in relation to implications for the individual practitioner as well as wider service and policy delivery and development.

This module enables you to develop understanding and critical appraisal skills in quantitative research and its associated components, applying these in relation to nursing and healthcare.

This module builds on the quantitative research methods module and enables you to develop an understanding and critical appraisal skills in qualitative research and its associated components, applying these in relation to nursing and healthcare.

This dissertation module enables you to consolidate and apply your learning from the programme in an area of interest or speciality of your choice. Through systematically examining and appraising the evidence base you will seek to answer a research question and make recommendations for practice, policy and improvement.