School of Nursing and Midwifery

This 30 credit, level 6, work-based learning module provides an opportunity for the student to demonstrate critical and creative thinking through their approach to developing specific learning outcomes and the achievement of these through practice-based initiatives. This will have relevance to their own practice in order to enhance their own professional standing. 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 in determining further and future learning needs.

This is an approved elective for both the BSc (Hons) Clinical Practice (multiple pathways) and the MSc Advancing Professional Practice through work based learning. The module will be underpinned by the work-based learning philosophy, which will be incorporated as a stimulating and challenging approach to practice based learning.

This module is available as an elective within BSc (Hons) Clinical Practice and MSc Advancing Professional Practice.

This module is also available as a free standing elective.

To plan, undertake and critically evaluate a practice based initiative, which may include achievement of practice based competencies, project work, literature review or extended audit, and synthesise understanding from it.

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 them through the acquisition of the developed learning outcomes.

There will be a tripartite meeting between the student, module leader and identified work-based facilitator (this may be Skype/Email/Teleconference as dictated by the accessibility) to develop and agree the specific area for exploration, followed by a period of planned, self-directed learning supported, as requested by the student.