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NUR-40101 - Module Specification
School of Nursing and Midwifery
Faculty of Medicine & Health Sciences

For academic year: 2025/26 Last Updated: 04 December 2025

NUR-40101 - Clinical Judgement and Decision Making MSc Nursing
Coordinator: Louise Cogher Tel: +44 1782 7 38154
Lecture Time: See Timetable...
Level: Level 7
Credits: 15
Study Hours: 150
School Office: 01782 556723

Programme/Approved Electives for 2025/26

None

Available as a Free Standing Elective

No

Co-requisites

None

Prerequisites

None

Barred Combinations

None

Description for 2025/26

This module focuses on the key nursing skills of appropriate clinical judgment and decision-making in nursing practice which are core to the role of the competent registered nurse. You will develop your knowledge of assessment tools to assist you in making safe judgements about people’s healthcare needs relevant to your field of nursing.

Aims
To enable you to demonstrate critical thinking, decision-making and team-working skills to manage and provide continuity of person-centred care in partnership with people with healthcare needs, their families and carers.
To support the development of your presentation skills.
To prepare you for the numeracy examination.

Talis Aspire Reading List
Any reading lists will be provided by the start of the course.
http://lists.lib.keele.ac.uk/modules/nur-40101/lists

Intended Learning Outcomes

Use best evidence to critically evaluate safe and effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of person-centred care whilst recognising, responding to and understanding physiological and psychosocial changes, drawing on underpinning
anatomy and physiology.: 1
Demonstrate the ability to work autonomously with a caring, compassionate and professional attitude in the application of theoretical knowledge, clinical reasoning and decision-making skills; to meet people’s complex nursing care needs in their field of nursing: Critically discuss how partnership working with people facilitates shared decision-making in order to support individuals, their families and carers to manage their own care
: 1

Study hours

Breakdown of active learning hours:
In situ- 13.5hrs / Synchronous-13.5hrs (Lectures, discussion, seminars, tutorials, workshops, assessment preparation).
Asynchronous- 7hrs (Guided independent study including preparation for scheduled sessions, follow up work).
Breakdown of independent study hours-
Independent study- 116hrs (Wider reading, revision, assessment preparation)
Due to the dynamic nature of nursing programmes, the above breakdown may be subject to alteration.






School Rules

You will not be able to complete this module unless you are in good academic standing, having successfully completed the previous part/year 1 of your MSc programme

Description of Module Assessment

1: Presentation weighted 100%
A 20 minute presentation of a poster
You will present a poster about a scenario that you have encountered in clinical practice which demonstrates your clinical reasoning skills, which must be based on the Clinical Reasoning Cycle (Levett-Jones et al, 2009). The total presentation time is 20 minutes which will be pre-recorded for submission. You will be expected to critically analyse and provide a rationale for your decision-making and will utilise the framework of the Clinical Reasoning Cycle. You are to present your information using a presentation template. During the presentation, a rationale should be included for the clinical reasoning theories/models and frameworks used. You will demonstrate developing clinical reasoning skills.

2: Exam weighted 0%
An online numeracy examination
A 1 hour and 15 minutes online numeracy exam, with a focus on medicines management. This assessment will assess your ability to determine correct drug calculations in preparation for administration by testing you on calculations related to Tablets and Capsules Liquid medicines Injections IV infusions You are required to achieve 100% to pass this assessment to meet the NMC Standard 4.6 "all programmes include a health numeracy assessment related to nursing proficiencies and calculation of medicines which must be passed with a score of 100 percent” (NMC, 2023, p14)

The University undertakes a continuous review of its teaching and research provision to ensure programmes are of a high quality and changes may be made to modules where it is necessary and reasonable to do so. Please be aware that minor changes to modules, such as a change to an individual assessment, can occur up until enrolment, although we endeavour to give you as much notice as possible of any changes. Details about the circumstance in which changes are made to programmes can be found in the Student Agreement, available at: https://www.keele.ac.uk/legalgovernancecompliance/governance/actcharterstatutesordinancesandregulations/studenttermsconditions/

Last Updated: 04 December 2025