BSc Nursing (Child)(with Registration) (2020 curriculum)

Year 2

(Award available for year: Diploma of Higher Education)

Learning outcomes

On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:
1.demonstrate a broad understanding of the concepts of nursing care,information,practical competencies and techniques
which are standard features in a range of aspects of adult or child or mental health nursing;
2.apply generic and subject specific intellectual qualities to standard situations outside the context in which they were
originally studied; for example, applying communication skills in new and more stretching situations
3.appreciate and employ the main methods of enquiry in the subject and critically evaluate the appropriateness of different
methods of enquiry;
4.use a range of techniques to initiate and undertake the analysis of data and information;
5.adjust to professional and disciplinary boundaries;
6.effectively communicate information, arguments and analysis in a variety of forms;
7.Meet the NMC requirements for part2.

Transferable (key) skills

Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:
1.qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment related to the subject area(s) studied;
2.skills necessary for the exercising of personal responsibility;
3.decision making.

Assessment

Achievement will be assessed by a variety of methods in accordance with the learning outcomes of the modules specified for
the year/programme and will include:
1.demonstrating the ability to apply a broad range of aspects/competencies of the discipline/profession to complex, albeit
standard, situations and simple, albeit novel or atypical, instances;
2.work that is often descriptive in nature but drawing on a wide variety of material;
3.demonstrating basic professional competencies relevant to the discipline;
4.the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion.