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Module Title: NUR-40020: Practice Development and Advancement through Work Based Learning
Mode of Study:Total Study Hours: 300
Contact Details:Contact School of Nursing and Midwifery - 01782 679600
Contact email:nursing@keele.ac.uk
Faculty: Faculty of Health
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This 30 credit, level 7, work-based learning core module provides an opportunity for the student to demonstrate critical and creative thinking through their approach to practice-based initiatives. It demands the demonstration of the systematic acquisition and understanding of a focused body of knowledge at the forefront of a discipline or practice area through the development of a professional portfolio. It enables the student to demonstrate their ability to make informed judgements about practice based issues and communicate ideas to their work-based learning facilitator, specialist and non-specialist fellow professionals. Evaluative reflection will be integral to this.

The module will be underpinned by the work-based learning philosophy, which will be incorporated as a stimulating and challenging approach. This module will draw together the professional learning that has occurred during the first two years of the MSc Advancing Professional Practice (WBL).

It will enable the student to continue to determine their future and further learning needs.

This module is available as a compulsory core within MSc Advancing Professional Practice, and also as a free standing elective.

Justify the selection of what is worthy of exploration in their contemporary professional practice through a portfolio of evidence.

Initiate or contribute to change and improvement in practice evidenced through the construction of a professional portfolio.

Develop personal and professional skills and self-efficacy.

Hold current first level Professional Registration with a relevant regulatory body e.g. Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC); Health Professional Council (HPC); General Social Care Council (GSCC).

Have an identified work-based facilitator within their practice area, who will support and guide their development throughout this module and their Masters programme.

A minimum of two years professional practice.

There will be a tripartite meeting between the student, module leader and work-based facilitator to develop and agree the specific area for exploration, followed by a period of planned, self-directed learning supported, as requested, by the student.

Focused aspects of group discussions:
Portfolio development
Experiential learning
Evaluative reflection upon learning from practice
Clinical Governance
Action Research
Leading change and development in Clinical Practice
Determining Professional Knowledge
Case Studies
Communities of Practice

No. 01: Assessment Type: Portfolio
  Assessment Marking Scheme: Assessment rule 50%
  Brief Description: Portfolio of Professional Activities reflecting upon own professional development (equivalent 5000 words).
  Contribution to the module mark: 70% Qualifying Mark: 50
  Apply For Exemption from Anonymous Assessment: Yes
  Optional Detailed Description of Assessment: The assembly of the portfolio of professional practice provides a unique opportunity for an individual piece of reflective scholarship, underpinned by a range of evidence sources (which includes project work), that demonstrates understanding of what it means to be a professional in order to contribute to knowledge of relevance to self and other practitioners. This will be derived through work-based learning; the specific focus of the portfolio will be negotiated with participants according to their particular professional interests, in conjunction with their work-based facilitator and the module leader and as such wordage will vary, but it is expected to be in the region of 5000 words (eqv).
No. 02: Assessment Type: Essay
  Assessment Marking Scheme: Assessment rule 50%
  Brief Description: Synoptic essay to support portfolio (3000words).
  Contribution to the module mark: 30% Qualifying Mark: 50
  Apply For Exemption from Anonymous Assessment: Yes
  Optional Detailed Description of Assessment: Synoptic essay which cross references to, and supports the portfolio, which will enable the student to demonstrate the systematic acquisition and understanding of a significant body of knowledge at the forefront of their discipline or practice area.