NUR-30234 - Module Specification
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

Available as a Free Standing Elective

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2025/26

This is a 30-credit module, which is achieved through the development of a service improvement plan relevant to the practitioner’s own health/social care setting. The module will be delivered utilising a blended learning approach, and will require the practitioner to undertake a significant period of work based learning and independent study. The concept of evidence based practice is central to the health and social care professions, and seeks to promote the integration of best research evidence with clinical expertise and service user values. This module seeks to develop the student’s application of evidence based practice to achieve real-world impact and utility.

The aim of this module is for the student to develop their service improvement skills within their area of practice through the application of a structured approach to quality, service improvement, and redesign.

Intended Learning Outcomes

Identify and justify an area of service improvement within one’s own area of practice.: 1
Undertake a structured search to identify relevant academic literature, including research, policies, guidelines and standards of professional practice, which underpin the service improvement.: 1
Critically analyse and apply a range of existing evidence which supports a service improvement within one’s own area of practice.: 1
Evaluate and apply appropriate clinical leadership techniques and models that facilitate a structured approach to quality, service improvement, and redesign.: 1
Demonstrate critical reflection upon the service improvement process.: 1

Study hours

This module will take a blended approach to teaching & learning by incorporating a range of strategies underpinning the required study hours. This blended approach may take the form of insitu, synchronous or virtual approaches to teaching & learning. These include lectures, discussion, tutorials, essay preparation, & private study.
Lectures / discussion - 15 hours (insitu / synchronous / virtual).
Preparation for dissertation - 9 hours (insitu / synchronous).
Dissertation supervision – 6 hours (insitu / synchronous / virtual)
Independent learning - 210
Placement learning - 60 hours

School Rules

Completion of NUR 30233 (Research Application in Clinical Practice).

Description of Module Assessment