BSc (Hons) in Health Care Studies (Nursing)

The aim of this module is to support students through the initial stages of their studies, based on an acknowledgement that some students find it challenging to balance work, home life. Students may also need additional support to meet level 6 academic standards. This module aims to help students develop confidence in being able to access, manage, critically analyse, synthesise and apply the huge amount of information that now exists within health and social care domain within their studies.

The aim of this module is to help students gain a systematic understanding of current thinking about the processes of facilitating a culture of collaborative and inclusive leadership within complex public sector organisations. It aims to help students to integrate the emergent changes in leadership theory within the practice environment and the impact of applying traditional private sector leadership styles uncritically within the public sector organisations. It explores the relationship between transactional and transformational leadership and evaluates students’ ability to review, consolidate and extend their knowledge within their own leadership role. The module explores how the effects of leadership on clinical teams influence the quality of healthcare.

This module supports students who are registered health care professionals to develop confidence and skill in facilitating effective learning in the workplace. Students are expected to analyse the different ways in which adults learn with the aim of enabling them to develop competencies around facilitating and assessing workplace learning. They are required to draw on their own experience of being a learner as well as theoretical perspectives. The workplace is identified as where learners can be facilitated to develop the best opportunities for learning. Difficulties and challenges will be explored which may arise when helping learners in health care practice.

This practice-focused orientation will enable health care professionals to critically explore the conceptual foundations of quality and governance in the context of their own working environment. Students will gain an understanding of the broader theoretical concepts of quality and clinical governance initiatives. It challenges accepted notions of measuring quality and performance in complex situations and explores how practitioners can develop more appropriate and effective frameworks. Students are introduced to the complexity of change management and the dilemmas in achieving organisational change through clinical governance. Students are encouraged to critically analyse their own practice/organisation’s approach to managing quality improvement within the clinical governance agenda.

This module has a focus on principles of infection prevention and control which are applicable to both the hospital, community and specialist practice settings. It is designed to encourage students to develop understanding of how best to utilise resources to contribute to the provision of a safe environment and thus promote both infection prevention and infection control practice and minimise minimum the necessity of antibiotic usage. This is in the context of healthcare-associated infections and increasing antibiotic resistance which is of international concern. Students are required to consider clinical infection prevention and control theory and practice relating to a choice of workplace case scenario and critically discuss how this should be managed with reference to evidence and research.

This experiential module examines a variety of theoretical approaches to health education, public health and health promotion, and their use in practice. It is designed to develop awareness and understanding of both the philosophies and concepts underlying health promotion work with individuals, groups and communities. Public policy, the importance of healthy alliances and evidence-based health promotion are explored as strategies towards empowerment for use by public health and health promotion specialists working within a changing health and welfare context.

Students will have the opportunity to explore the research process, methods, data analysis and the ethical considerations associated with health and social care research. The module focuses on issues, techniques and skills for data collection and analysis in quantitative, qualitative or mixed mode approaches to research.

This dissertation module is designed to support students in developing a research project by exploring a critical area of the students’ own practice. It aims to allow students to demonstrate their ability to argue coherently, to gather evidence, to evaluate critically, and to synthesise various sources of data within an appropriate framework. The dissertation should build on the student’s past knowledge and experience, by evaluating changes in practice. It provides a vehicle through which students can define a health issue for in depth analysis. Students will explore secondary data through a literature review.