MSc - Nursing (Adult)

University of Hertfordshire

This 0-credit level 7 cross field module will use online based teaching to enable the student to develop knowledge of the formulae used for calculating medication dosages for both enteral and parenteral medicine administration and to demonstrate their skills of arithmetic fundamental to safe nursing care and practice.

This interactive module prepares students to develop fundamental knowledge and skills in the context of recovery orientated mental health nursing practice and in accordance with Future Nurse: Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses (NMC, 2018). It will enable students to explore their learning and progression as they begin their journey of becoming a registered mental health nurse. Students will attend a range of practice placements during the year that this module runs. Structured learning activities will facilitate inquiry skills and solution building through experiential learning.

This module aims to equip you with a deeper awareness of factors that underpin the provision and evaluation of person-centred recovery oriented mental health nursing care and in accordance with Future Nurse: Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses (NMC, 2018). You will benefit from a wide range of learning opportunities gained within our dedicated skills labs. These experiences, known as Simulated Practice Learning (SPL), are designed to help you develop the skills and confidence you need to provide high quality recovery oriented mental health care.

Welcome to an exciting journey in our mental health nursing Leading and Managing in Teams module. This module will help you enhance your leadership skills, critical thinking, and grasp of management and leadership dynamics. We will dive into leadership models, deal with uncertainty and complexity and impact of technology for effective collaboration and resilience building. We will help you develop your leadership potential by teaching you to guide, support and motivate individuals and interact confidently with other members of the mental health care team.

This module will equip students to fulfil the requirements of NMC Future Nurse Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses, necessary to become an NMC Registered Nurse. Students will gain knowledge the factors that underpin the provision and evaluation of care. We emphasise the use of simulation to enhance the skills needed for leading and coordinating holistic care across various care settings, in collaboration with interdisciplinary teams. Students will benefit from a wide range of learning opportunities gained within our dedicated modern and well-equipped skills labs.

This module will help students develop their knowledge of epidemiology, demography, genomics and the wider determinants of health, illness and wellbeing and apply this to an understanding of global patterns of health and wellbeing outcomes. The module will enable students to consider wider social, political and economic issues and their impact on health and care delivery. From the perspective of the students own field of nursing, the module will enable students to explore will how these elements specifically inform nursing care and health and wellbeing.

This module will enable students to achieve the learning outcomes through guided activities that focus on academic integrity and standards of academic writing, critical reflection skills and critical reading skills. The Nursing and Midwifery state that nursing students should be empowered to take control of and responsibility for their own learning, and to self-direct their learning where safe and appropriate. This module seeks to assist student begin that journey of empowerment. It has been developed for MSc Nursing students, including those who may not have studied for some time.

This module is arranged around three key themes, each critical to the learning needs of mental health nursing students. The first theme introduces the student to notions of mental health and mental health recovery. The student will explore the helpfulness and unhelpfulness of diagnostic labels. The second theme is around the legal and professional framework that supports the delivery of safe, effective recovery oriented mental health nursing. The final theme is around medicines and how these can play a part in service user's recovery journey.

This module is arranged around three key themes, each critical to the learning needs of mental health nursing students. The first theme centres on how the mental health nurse can develop and use a range of strategies and approaches to promote service user recovery and health promotion. This is contextualised around the second theme of complex legal and professional frameworks. The final theme is around the implementation of evidence-based knowledge and skills in relation to medicines management in ways which engage and involve the mental health service user.

This module focuses on developing a critical understanding of the impact of research, the associated evidence and its application to nursing practice in the student's own field. Students will develop knowledge and abilities in searching, critically analysing and synthesising findings from the literature, setting research questions, the research process, and recognising the multidisciplinary contribution to research from patients, carers and service-users.