Learning Disabilities Nursing BSc (Hons) with foundation year

This module aims to equip you with the values, behaviours and actions essential for professional practice. We will support you to develop your personal and academic skills, providing you with opportunities to reflect on your knowledge, skills and values. We will work with you to foster a culture of professionalism, collaboration and valuing diversity to prepare you to work within multi-professional environments.

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This module aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills required to understand and appreciate the role of evidence in both your profession and the wider health and care sector. The module supports you in understanding how your personal views and experiences may influence your thinking in developing your professional identity. This module will help you develop critical thinking skills by encouraging you to question, challenge and reflect. You'll learn to use evidence to build your approaches, making you a more inclusive, evidence-based practitioner.

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This module aims to provide you with the essential theory and practical skills related to nursing health assessments and explore how these can be used to inform individualised care plans across the lifespan. The module covers key body systems and principles of pharmacology and medicine administration. Additionally, it introduces the concept of holistic nursing care and aims to deepen your understanding of equality, diversity and inclusive nursing practice. Throughout the module, emphasis is placed on building therapeutic relationships and enhancing your communication skills. All of this will help to prepare you for your first placement experience as a student nurse.

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This module explores the factors that influence people's health and wellbeing across the lifespan. You will learn about societal influences, health inequalities and determinants of health, exploring health policy and the different strategies you can use to help promote health and wellbeing. You will gain further understanding of the impact of behaviours on physical and mental health (pathophysiology) and how this impacts the need to access care. You will gain valuable insights into the global communities you will be supporting, alongside the delivery of culturally competent and inclusive care. You will learn about collaboration and care coordination within multidisciplinary health care teams, whilst developing the skills you need to effectively contribute.

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This module is designed to provide your first experience of nursing practice^2,5. During this module you will spend time within a nursing care setting, delivering hands-on patient care through guided participation. Under the supervision of your practice supervisors and assessors, you will work within the multidisciplinary team towards achieving practical proficiency and bringing your theoretical knowledge to life. You will have the opportunity to demonstrate your professional values and gain feedback towards continuing to develop your nursing care and delivery.

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This module aims to allow you to consolidate and apply the knowledge and experience you have gained. You will again spend time within a nursing healthcare setting^2,5 and continue to work towards the expected level of proficiency for a year one student nurse. Under continued supervision, you will work towards delivering an episode of care through effective assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of a person or family receiving care. You will also work towards demonstrating the safe and effective administration of medications under supervision, while continuing to maintain your professional values.

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This module aims to strengthen your understanding and ability to form and maintain therapeutic relationships within learning disabilities nursing. In this module you will explore the complex behavioural needs of individuals and how to select, initiate and evaluate appropriate care interventions to support their individualised and holistically assessed needs. You will explore both pharmacological and non-pharmacological care interventions within the context of contemporary service delivery. You will examine nursing care innovations, sustainable practice and digital developments which support the needs of people with learning disabilities.

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This module examines complex decision-making within the context of learning disabilities nursing. This module offers you the opportunity to explore complex needs including co-morbidities, and the impact these may have on the health and social care needs of individuals with learning disabilities. It will examine key ethical and legal frameworks, alongside policy, governance, and clinical guidance related to the care of people with learning disabilities. It will debate how such factors shape the rationalisation, critical reasoning and judgement of nurses making complex care decisions. During this module, you will also examine the skills required to safeguard and undertake complex risk assessments, encompassing knowledge of human factors, alongside implementing strategies to identify and prevent potential adverse events.

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This module explores methods of enquiry utilised in daily practice. You will develop your ability to analyse the knowledge, theory and practice-based evidence within health and care. This module will explore how daily inquiry methods can be transformed into more systematic approaches to data collection and analysis. You'll learn about quantitative and qualitative research, evaluation and audit techniques. Through exploration and debate, you will develop an appreciation of interdisciplinary and profession-specific evidence and how to use this learning within the practice context.

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This module aims to explore - across a variety of care contexts - how we can combine information we learn about people through a range of nursing assessments to develop holistic and individualised care plans. You will learn how to ensure these are inclusive and made in partnership with individuals and those who support them. Incorporating personal preferences and goals, including those that influence end-of-life care, you will develop skills to allow you to monitor, evaluate, prioritise and adjust your care and the care delivery of others, to meet the changing needs of individuals. Building on your knowledge of physiology you will learn to respond to signs of deterioration, and how to escalate safely to others.

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This module aims to consolidate the knowledge and experience gained in year one of your nursing course. You will spend time within a nursing care setting, building your confidence, and beginning to work towards the expected level of proficiency for a year two student nurse^2,5. You will have the opportunity to learn to work more independently with less direct supervision in an increasingly confident and competent manner, delivering safe holistic care to individuals and people who support them. You will look to demonstrate safe and effective administration of medication under supervision, whilst continuing to develop and strengthen your professional values.

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This module aims to build on your experiences gained from Placement 3, developing your ability to deliver evidence-based care for groups of people and people with increasingly complex health and social care needs within the nursing care environment. This fourth placement^2,5 is designed to allow you to demonstrate continued maintenance of your enhanced professional values and meet the expected level of proficiency for a year two student nurse. During this placement, you will aim to strengthen your ability to work independently with reduced supervision, as you strive to gain confidence and competence in delivering high-quality, holistic and inclusive care. You will aim to further develop proficiency in preparing and administering medication, whilst demonstrating your practical application of pharmacological knowledge.

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This module aims to advance your knowledge of health conditions and strengthen your ability to undertake a leadership role in coordinating care for groups of people with learning disabilities who have complex and diverse health and social care needs. The module explores the coordination of complex care packages within learning disabilities nursing, including individuals in specialist environments, requiring multidisciplinary services and safe care transfers. You will aim to further develop your skills in prioritising, delegating and assigning care responsibilities within a framework of safe staffing and skill mix, towards ensuring safe, high-quality care delivery. You will look to strengthen your communication skills, ensuring confident interaction with others whilst adopting a non-discriminatory approach.

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Our health and care workforce is required to lead the delivery of high-quality care, whilst navigating a complex health and social care ecosystem. This module aims to foster confident and accountable leadership through an interprofessional learning experience. By collaborating with colleagues from different backgrounds, you'll explore fresh perspectives and analyse contemporary theory, practice and evidence to redefine leadership for yourself. The module aims to foster your development as a reflective leader.

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In this module, you'll have the opportunity to critically evaluate, interpret and apply the latest national and international research to improve care. You'll look to gain the skills to analyse, safely use and share these findings, ultimately shaping best practices in your field. This module should also equip you with the skills to conduct an independent study. We'll support you as you develop your research and communication abilities, empowering you to share your findings with healthcare professionals, policymakers and the public.

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This module aims to prepare you for becoming a registered nursing professional. Equipped with the knowledge, skills and behaviours acquired throughout the course, this module is designed to complete your preparation to respond to the dynamic demands of contemporary nursing practice and deliver culturally competent, inclusive and holistic care. It aims to empower you to fully recognise and appreciate your accountability and responsibilities as a nursing registrant and role model. It will support you towards becoming fully competent in the safe numerical calculations involved in medicines administration. In addition, it will offer training to enable you to assume the role of a practice supervisor on registration.

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This module is designed to combine your knowledge, skills and professional values towards becoming a nursing registrant. During this placement, you will routinely be coordinating the care for groups of people, while working with a wide range of multidisciplinary team members^2,5. This next step in your professional development aims to support you towards independent practice, where you are using your comprehensive, evidence-based knowledge to critically rationalise and justify your care delivery. You will begin to supervise and oversee the care delivery of others, delegating tasks appropriately and putting into practice your skills as a leader.

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This module is designed to offer your final opportunity to refine and strengthen your knowledge and skills before becoming a registered nurse who is autonomous and fully accountable for their practice. During this placement, you will be working towards meeting the expected level of proficiency for year three2,5. You will have the opportunity to independently organise and manage the care of a group or caseload of complex patients with minimal guidance. Leading a team of healthcare professionals, you will have the opportunity to delegate tasks and oversee the delivery of high-quality, non-discriminatory care, offering guidance, supervision and appraisal to others. You will continue to administer medications under supervision with confidence and competence, demonstrating a sound knowledge of pharmacology.

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