Keele University Prospectus Undergraduate | 2016 | Page 180

HEALTH Nursing Overview The three year single honours degree programmes lead to professional nursing registration (RN) in one of the four specialist fields of Nursing. The following fields of Nursing are available at Keele: • Adult Nursing • Children’s Nursing • Learning Disability Nursing • Mental Health Nursing The aim of the programme is to enable graduates to be caring, competent and accountable nurses who can apply knowledge and deliver a high standard of skilled, safe and person centred care in a variety of health and community care settings. Each year is composed of one module to enable completion of theory and practice requirements within taught study and clinical practice blocks. This is a direct entry course leading to professional registration as a Registered Nurse (RN) with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) together with the academic award of an honours degree on successful completion. Course content The BSc (Hons) programme is designed to develop students towards independent learning through a programme of study which utilises both generic and field specific themes in relation to the four domains of nursing identified by the NMC. These themes run through the three years in both theory and practice blocks of study and allow you to develop the requisite skills for both registration with the professional body (NMC) and the attainment of an academic qualification. The programme will enable you to study your own field of nursing throughout each module and collaborate with other students in the study of generic themes to further develop your knowledge and skill base. There is also an opportunity to study with other health professionals. The programmes adopt an approach to teaching and learning that ensures that service users are the focus of activities and encourages you to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required for the delivery of safe and effective person centred nursing care. All modules integrate theory and practice elements and contribute towards your preparation for admission to the NMC Professional Register. (Nursing cannot be combined with the study of another principal subject.) The main aims of the degree programmes are to develop nurses who are caring, skilled, reflective, knowledgeable, analytical, accountable person centred practitioners who have achieved the standards and competencies for entry to the Professional Register (NMC 2010). 180 Teaching and assessment The majority of the taught sessions for the degree programmes will be held at the School of Nursing and Midwifery based at the Clinical Education Centre (CEC), University Hospitals of North Midlands NHS Trust, Royal Stoke University Hospital in Stoke-on-Trent. The CEC has a world class Health Library that is shared with students within the Faculty of Health and clinical colleagues from local healthcare organisations. A variety of teaching, learning and assessment strategies are integrated into the degree programmes, including case based learning, lectures, seminars, tutorials, presentations and group work. Emphasis is placed on the learning of skills through simulation and practice. You will be given the opportunity to develop enhanced clinical skills such as venepuncture and cannulation during the programme which puts you in a strong position when seeking employment at the end of the programme. In addition to our highly qualified and skilled lecturers, clinical nurse specialists and practitioners from local health care providers contribute to the delivery of the programmes as do service users and members from o F