BSc Nursing (Child)(with Registration) (2020 curriculum)
Year 3
(Award available for year: Bachelor of Science)
Learning outcomes
On completion of the year/programme students should have provided evidence of being able to:1.understand and demonstrate coherent and detailed child nursing knowledge and professional competencies some of which will be informed by recent research/scholarship in the discipline;2.deploy accurately standard techniques of analysis and enquiry within child nursing;3.demonstrate a conceptual understanding which enables the development and sustaining of an argument;4.critically appraise and comment on particular aspects of recent research and/or scholarship;5.appreciate the uncertainty, ambiguity and limitations of knowledge in the discipline of child nursing;6.make appropriate use of scholarly reviews and primary sources;7.apply their knowledge and understanding in order to initiate and carry out an extended piece of work or project;8.conform to professional boundaries and norms where applicable;9.Meet the NMC requirement for registration as a children’s nurse
Transferable (key) skills
Students will have had the opportunity to acquire, as defined in the modules specified for the programme:1.the transferable/key/generic skills necessary for employment related to the area(s) studied;2.the exercise of initiative and personal responsibility;3.the deployment of decision making skills in complex and unpredictable situations;4.the communication of information, ideas, problems and solutions in a variety of ways to a variety of audiences;5.the ability to undertake appropriate further training of a professional or equivalent nature;
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 of the discipline;2.work that draws on a wide variety of material;3.the ability to evaluate and criticise received opinion;4.evidence of an ability to conduct independent, in depth enquiry within the discipline;5.work that is typically both evaluative and creative;