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Master of Arts - MA
Frederick Road campus
Full Time
Jan 2028
2 Year
At the University of Salford, you will be welcomed into a relaxed and friendly environment, with access to facilities, support, and opportunities that will enable you to succeed. On this course, you will learn in our state-of-the-art simulation suites as part of a multidisciplinary team and prepare for a career as a Registered Nurse. This course is for you if: You want a wide-reaching, varied career with diverse opportunities. This course will give you exposure to community settings, specialist nursing roles, as well as acute and emergency care environments. You are a caring and compassionate individual who enjoys working with people and as part of a team. You want to make a difference in the lives of adults of all ages and from diverse backgrounds. You want to develop your critical thinking and future leadership skills.
On this 60 credit module, you will demonstrate the required NMC proficiencies commensurate with your stage of learning and development in year one in relation to your chosen field of practice and inter-professional practice (NMC part 1 and part 2 progression). This will include developing skills in self- awareness/assessment and personal and professional development planning. You will be able to critically articulate and evaluate how your own and others? communication styles, values and belief systems impact on people, teams and inter-agency working from understanding of the major concepts and principles of communication.
Bringing your existing experienceto this first year module, you will explore the management of care for a range of patients within the adult field of practice. This will be achieved through examining your role as a future adult nurse in the delivery of care and the support of service users, carers and families within a multi-professional team. Using case examples and the participation in simulated scenarios, you will consider how to develop and apply your own professional identity within the context of an inter-professional and integrated health and social care environment.
A key component to ensuring that your future practice stays up to date is your understanding and interpretation of the best available evidence. During this module you will develop your ability to be able to critically engage with the discourse relating to the use of evidence within healthcare. Further to this you will also apply critical appraisal tools in the evaluation of different forms of evidence, including the evaluation of implementation and dissemination. You will be synthesise ideas related to the importance of personalised care within the context of applying evidence-based interventions.
You will develop the knowledge, skills and professional attitudes to facilitate the critical, systematic and contemporary application of the evidence base required to demonstrate autonomous nursing practice. This will be achieved through the completion of a systematised literature review. You will critically analyse the ability to utilise systems and processes that enable personalised care and support planning within a range of health and social care settings to facilitate service user empowerment. Further to this you will critically appraise transition theory and analyse strategies that will ease professional role transition.
You will demonstrate the required NMC proficiencies commensurate with your stage of learning and development in year two in relation to your field of practice and inter-professional practice (NMC part 3 progression). Your personal and professional development plan in year two will enable you to critically evaluate and reflect on your own and others understanding of the major theories, principles and concepts of inter professional, inter-agency and integrated working. You will demonstrate critical application of the evidence, knowledge, skills, values, attitudes, leadership qualities and self-awareness essential for the transition from student nurse to registered nurse.
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