Registered Nurse

During Year 1, learners are introduced to the fundamentals of care and develop core skills and knowledge to underpin their working practices. This includes developing strategies to support their own resilience, so that they are able to deliver the best possible care to others.

Personal and Professional Development for Health and Well-being
This module helps learners to build a portfolio to demonstrate their personal development and show that they have acquired skills to support lifelong learning. They also explore how to look after their own well-being, so they are able to deliver the best possible care to others.

Foundations of Anatomy and Physiology to Support Clinical Practice
On this module learners are introduced to the structure and functions of the human body. They gain insight into how the body reacts to external influences and a range of illnesses commonly seen in today’s communities.

Practice Based Learning 1: Foundations of Essential Skills
This module provides learners with their first experience of the ward environment, enabling them to put into practice the theory they have gained over the previous two modules.

Fundamentals of Person Centred Care in Practice
This module provides the foundations from which learners develop their skills, knowledge, attitudes and behaviours in the professional arena. This includes developing an understanding of their role in promoting the importance of health and well-being.

Nursing Assessment and Skills Development
This module introduces learners to evidenced-based healthcare and explains how this supports clinical practice. It provides the theory behind some of the essential practical skills needed in order to be a safe and effective practitioner.

Practice-Based Learning 2: Applying the Evidence Base in Practice
This module supports degree apprentices in really beginning to understand the impact of evidence-based practice. Learners are introduced to the basic terminology of research and look at how research influences public health.

In Year 2, learners should be able to demonstrate their understanding of key concepts relating to patient care. These include risk and how to manage it in a clinical setting, the principles of shared decision making in healthcare practice, and the nurse’s role in supporting individuals with long term and complex needs.

Caring for the Physical and Emotional Needs of Individuals Across Their Life Span
This module pays particular attention to children and young people, learning disabilities and mental health, emphasising the importance of health and well-being in optimising an individual’s quality of life.

Care of People with Long Term and Complex Conditions
This module addresses some difficult topics and the nurse’s role in relation to them, including living with cancer and end of life transition.

Practice-Based Learning 3 – Managing Risk in Practice

This module teaches learners to identify what ‘risk’ is and gives them tools to manage it in the clinical environment.

Leading and Managing Care Within the Multi-Disciplinary Team
This module helps learners to examine leadership and management styles that are constructive in the clinical arena. It examines the role and value of the team and helps learners to identify the benefits of an effective multi-disciplinary partnership. It also gives degree apprentices the tools to challenge unsafe practice and apply the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s professional standards.

Shared Decision Making
This module helps learners understand the principles of shared decision making in practice and what it truly means to ensure patients feel ready and able to take part in decisions affecting their health, as well as the care they receive.

Practice-Based Learning 4 – Leading and Managing Care in Practice
This fourth practice-based module equips learners with the tools to become effective when leading and managing in practice. It enables them to explore their responsibilities and expectations, and develop strategies for coping and building resilience.

In Year 3 and Year 4, learners develop further the skills needed to become the leaders of first class healthcare services. They explore service improvement and how the latest research and innovation can contribute to this. After the first two taught modules are completed, learners are practice-based for one year, before returning to university for the final elements of teaching and assessment.

Leading and Managing Services
This module examines the delivery of successful health and social care services through effective management and strong leadership. It helps learners to build upon previous knowledge and experience, develop their analytical skills and provides an overview of the organisational, legal and policy contexts within which managers operate.

Facilitating Learning in the Workplace
This module explores some of theoretical perspectives of teaching in the workplace and considers how these can support degree apprentices in their own professional development, as well as the development of those they work with, supervise and mentor.

Driving Change and Innovation – Service Evaluation in Practice
This module gives degree apprentices a framework to appraise an aspect of service delivery and to consider service improvement and evaluation. By using reflective practice and reviewing literature, learners consider areas for innovation, propose a service improvement project and complete a service improvement report.