📖Program Curriculum
On this course you'll be taught and supported by leading academics and nurses. You’ll apply your learning in a variety of clinical and health care settings including placements on general medical and surgical wards critical care areas such as A&E departments or intensive care units in leading NHS Trusts and hospitals across London Essex and the South East. You may also spend this time in community placements or services for the care of elderly people. Overall the course is split between 50% theory and 50% practice.
All modules on the course are compulsory. Each module of study indicates the number of contact hours and the number of hours students should spend studying as self directed and blended learning activities. For each 20 credit module students should be expected to undertake 200 hours of learning.
On campus and on line live sessions account for approximately 15 hours of teaching per week.
Some compulsory skills sessions may take place in the evening.
Year 1
Biosciences for nurses - 20 credits
Assessing needs and planning care in Adult Nursing - 60 credits
Communication for nursing - 20 credits
Introducing evidence based practice in adult nursing - 20 Credits
Practice Placements Year 1
Year 2
Providing care in Adult Nursing - 40 credits
Appraising evidence-based practice in adult nursing - 20 credits
Applied physiology for Adult Nursing - 20 credits
Promoting health and preventing ill health - 20 credits
Safe and effective practice - 20 credits
Mother and new-born - 0 credits
Practice Placements Year 2
Year 3
Implementing best practice - 20 credits
Enhancing and evaluating care in Adult Nursing - 40 credits
Pharmacology and prescribing ready for Adult Nursing - 20 credits
Complex and critical care of adults - 20 credits
Transition to leadership - 20 credits
Practice Experience Year 3
Facilities
Adult Nursing skills laboratories
We have two adult nursing skills laboratories at our Southwark campus and three at our Havering campus. These labs are set up like nursing wards and are used by all student nurses and midwives throughout their courses. They learn manual handling and basic life support skills and skills that are specific to their field of nursing or midwifery.
SimMan
The nursing wards have simulator mannequins: SimMan SimBaby and SimMom. These life-size mannequins are computer controlled and can be programmed with various clinical conditions. These are operated by a computer in real-time and so respond to a student's actions. They also allow students to see the outcome of specific interventions in certain scenarios which could make the patient better or deteriorate quite quickly.
The mannequins are used to teach students how to recognise clinical signs and to also associate those clinical signs with the actions they are taking to care for the patient. SimMan can be male or female with fully accurate anatomy and can breathe blink sweat speak and groan in pain as well as have a pulse. Read more about SimMan.
Facilities
Adult Nursing skills laboratories
We have two adult nursing skills laboratories at our Southwark campus and three at our Havering campus. These labs are set up like nursing wards and are used by all student nurses and midwives throughout their courses. They learn manual handling and basic life support skills and skills that are specific to their field of nursing or midwifery.
SimMan
The nursing wards have simulator mannequins: SimMan SimBaby and SimMom. These life-size mannequins are computer controlled and can be programmed with various clinical conditions. These are operated by a computer in real-time and so respond to a student's actions. They also allow students to see the outcome of specific interventions in certain scenarios which could make the patient better or deteriorate quite quickly.
The mannequins are used to teach students how to recognise clinical signs and to also associate those clinical signs with the actions they are taking to care for the patient. SimMan can be male or female with fully accurate anatomy and can breathe blink sweat speak and groan in pain as well as have a pulse. Read more about SimMan.
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