Registered Nurse (Degree Apprenticeship) - Adult Nursing Pathway

This module will help you develop the fundamental skills and knowledge required to prepare you for your role as a nurse in your chosen field of practice. You will learn how to demonstrate proficiencies required for successful achievement of Part 1. You will also explore the professional values and character traits that underpin the role of the nurse. Finally, you will learn how to undertake a self-assessment of your learning needs and plan accordingly.

This 20-credit module offers a field-specific introduction to Adult Nursing. Students will learn essential nursing skills and the underpinning theory, through a blend of simulated practice learning, classroom activity and guided independent learning.

The ability to understand anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and pharmacology, and the ways in which our biological systems interact with our environment, our behaviour and the social systems we live in are integral to your interprofessional work as a student nurse.  You will begin in year one with a dedicated module to develop foundational knowledge in transdisciplinary science and evidence based practice.

You will acquire the essential knowledge, skills and professional attitudes needed to provide personalised care and support planning for service users, carers and significant others. You will develop knowledge of strength-based approaches to assessment and care planning (salutogenesis), including an awareness of political, legal and socioeconomic factors that influence the voices and choices of people you work with.

This module will help you develop the skills and knowledge required to become a competent and confident nurse in your chosen field of practice. You will learn how to demonstrate proficiencies required for successful achievement of Part 2 and how to demonstrate the NMC proficiencies for progression to Part 3. In doing this you will evidence how to apply your professional values to nursing practice. You will also explore the professional values and character traits that underpin the role of a nurse, and how they influence the judgements and decision-making processes of yourself and others in the delivery of integrated service. Finally, you will learn how to collect and appraise evidence of your own learning and development, and how to set personal and professional goals for your future career.

This 20-credit module offers a field-specific development of Adult Nursing, building on Introduction to Adult Nursing. Apprentices will continue to learn essential nursing skills and the underpinning theory, through a blend of simulated practice learning, classroom activity and guided independent learning.

This follows on from year one and you will deepen your knowledge of the key principles which underpin healthcare and begin to apply these to your chosen field of practice. This will be achieved through the exploration of case examples and the participation in simulated scenarios, providing you with the opportunity to put into practice the knowledge, skills and behaviours you are developing as a nurse of the future.

A crucial aspect of keeping your future practice current is your ability to understand and interpret the best available evidence. In this module, you will enhance your skills in locating, evaluating, and applying various types of evidence to support both your own practice and the work of the multi-professional teams you collaborate with. Additionally, you will explore strategies to ensure that the personal preferences and needs of the patients and carers you support are respected throughout your interactions with them.

You will demonstrate the required NMC proficiencies commensurate with your stage of learning and development in year three in relation to your chosen field of practice and interprofessional practice (NMC Part 3 progression). This module prepares you for registration as nurse in your own field of practice and will include developing skills in looking outwards from one’s own profession to consider relationships with other professional/nonprofessional people and the impact this has on care delivery. Learners will be able to demonstrate a greater depth of knowledge and the additional more advanced skills required to meet the specific care needs of people in their chosen fields of nursing practice.

This 20-credit module will enable the student to consolidate their learning and demonstrate a critical understanding of looking outwards from one's own profession to consider relationships with other professional/non-professional people and the impact this has on care delivery in Adult Nursing practice.  

You will build upon your developing knowledge, skills and professional attitudes to facilitate the critical application of the evidence base required to demonstrate inspirational nursing practice. Aspects of leadership, management, team working and exploration of evidence-based nursing practice, linked to both pathogenesis and salutogenesis will be implicit throughout.

You will develop the knowledge, skills and professional attitudes to facilitate the critical, systematic and contemporary application of the evidence base required to demonstrate autonomous nursing practice. This will be achieved through the delivery of a blended learning approach by way of seminars, master classes, action learning sets, practice and guided independent study. A feature of this module will be that some of the master classes will be delivered by specialist clinicians focusing upon quality, safety and personalised care across health and social care.