Keele University Prospectus Postgraduate | 2016 | Page 64

NURSING Nursing (Adult) – Graduate Entry Nursing (subject to validation) Key Information Course type Overview This programme is aimed at highly motivated graduates who wish become a registered adult nurse and achieve an MSc in an accelerated two year time frame. This exciting opportunity is a new innovation in the West Midlands. Nursing is an exciting and rewarding career choice. It’s one in which you can make a real and positive contribution to people with long and short-term health problems who are facing some of the most challenging experiences of their lives. The programme will utilise an enquiry based learning approach w hich will build on your existing graduate skills for learning and will be underpinned by a student centred philosophy. It will also encompass shared learning with other disciplines and professions, developing your clinical leadership skills and preparing you for professional practice. The programme will focus on quality care, clinical skills, leadership and will be designed to be both research intensive and research informed. You will learn the pivotal roles of nurse and client, while developing your nursing skills and building your knowledge of professional and ethical practice. This innovative programme will ensure our students will meet the registration requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council. Additional information The Graduate Entry Nursing (GEN) programme recognises that prior learning and experience is integral to the student’s learning and to the teaching approaches adopted. The programme embraces the values of person-hood, person-centeredness and professional identity, and that central to achievement on the programme will be a pro-active and positive approach to learning. This will necessitate skills and behaviours to be exhibited around excellent communication, emotional intelligence, enhanced clinical decision making and reasoning, authentic leadership, reflexivity and reflection on and in practice. The Keele accelerated postgraduate student will have the capability to demonstrate enhanced skills in the application of research findings and the ability to undertake research and to lead in order to take evidence based nursing practice forward. MSc and professional regulation with the Nursing and Midwifery Council Mode of study Full-time for two years Entry requirements Applicants require an upper second-class honours degree (2.1 or above) in a relevant topic area and six months care experience (minimum). Please contact us to discuss your graduate studies and care experience on an individual basis. English Language and Maths at GCSE or equivalent are essential. nursing.admissions@ keele.ac.uk Contact email [email protected] Module titles The following is a list of indicative modules: • Fundamentals of Nursing • Nursing for Health and Wellbeing • Acute and Critical Care Nursing • Transition to Professional Nursing Practice • Leading for Change • Research, Evidence and Dissertation for Nursing Practice Good to know www.keele.ac.uk/pgtcourses 64 This programme is being developed with local trusts and commissioners of healthcare to educate registered adult nurses in two years instead of three.