MSc/PgDip/PgCert Nursing: Research, Practice, Education, International
- Part-time study available
- Clinical Placement
- International students can apply
- NHS Funding and bursaries available
This course is delivered through modules using a variety of teaching methods including lectures, student-led seminars, action learning sets and high-fidelity clinical simulation.
Part-time students usually study one module per semester; full-time students will undertake two modules per semester. All students must complete four modules before progressing on to the dissertation.
Assessment
A range of formative and summative assessments will cater for your individual learning style. These include:
- Seminar presentation
- Written assignment
- Compiling a portfolio of experience
- Reflective commentary
- Clinical viva
- Research proposal
- Poster presentation
- Negotiated assessment
Staff Profile
Professor Martin Johnson’s work is known nationally and internationally, and he is most well-known for his work on research ethics. He was previously Editor in Chief of Nurse Education Today and is a member of the Royal College of Nursing Ethics Committee.
Examples of his work relate to:
- Funded projects into older people coping with loneliness
- Evaluation of fitness for practice and development of newly qualified nurses in Scotland
- Examining educational and clinical issues of care at the end of life.
Dr Michelle Howarth is a senior lecturer with a particular research interest in person centred care and partnership working. Michelle’s recent publications have explored how person centred care is delivered and experienced by the individual. Michelle is the Chair of the College Ethical Approval Panel for taught programmes and also leads the research methods module and the project management module.
Lyn Rosen is the module leader for the core module ‘Critically Exploring professional Practice’ and is experienced in the organisation and delivery of multi-method teaching and learning approaches. Lyn is an expert in work based learning and the use of multi-media blended learning approaches.
Leah Greene is the Simulation Laboratory Coordinator & the Lead for Clinical Simulation Innovation and Development. Leah coordinates all aspects of clinical simulation and simulation based healthcare education including teaching, research and enterprise activities.
For more infmoration please see Leah's SEEK profile.