This module will facilitate you to explore the principles of evidence-based practice in detail. You will consider the value of interprofessional collaboration, and foundational research skills. It explores how integrating research evidence, clinical expertise, and patient values improves healthcare outcomes, and prepares students to contribute to service improvement through collaborative, research-informed approaches.

Indicative content 

1. Problem solving within an interprofessional context, including evidence-based decision-making, hierarchies of knowledge and service user perspectives.
2. Interprofessional learning and collaboration: Remit, roles and responsibilities; sharing knowledge in health and social care.
3. Research: literature searching across evidence bases, research appraisal and critical thinking, ethics and governance.
4. Service improvement and innovation methodologies: audit, quality assurance, evaluation, continuous improvement, clinical governance, service user co-production.
5. Drivers influencing interprofessional health and social care: organisational and national policy, socio-political and economic drivers.

To provide students with practice learning opportunities which provide a range of experiences across fields. The module will build on cross field and field specific skills for nursing. The learner will actively participate in and work towards increasing confidence and competence is able to provide care.

You will be provided with practice learning opportunities which provide a range of experiences across fields. The module will build on cross field and field specific skills for nursing. You will actively participate in and work towards increasing confidence and competence is able to provide care with minimal guidance.

This module aims to explore health promotion and prevention of ill health in your chosen field of practice. The aim is to demonstrate understanding of enhanced communication to empower and enable service users, and work effectively across the MDT / range of settings.

This module will focus on learning disability field specific nursing conditions with increasing complexity and service users with co-morbidities. The module will explore identification and management of risk and factors which influence this.

You will learn how to apply knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, principles of pharmacology and how these are applied in field specific nursing practice.