Team

 

 

 

Kevin Crimmons – Head of Subject for Adult Nursing and Health & Social Care. More details on Kevin and his career are here.

 

 

Alexis Warrilow – Head of Subject for Mental Health Nursing. More details on Alexis and her career are here.

 

 

Matthew Aldridge – Head of placement, skills and simulation. More details on Matt and his career can be found here.

 

Chris Jones – Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing. I am a dual qualified child and adult nurse, and my specialism is in Emergency Care. I have worked as an Emergency Nurse Practitioner specializing in Children’s Nursing. I have worked in Higher education for 12 years and have a keen interest in Professional values and reflective practice.

 

 

Uchenna Chima – Senior Lecturer in Mental Health Nursing. Uchenna will be joining us in late June.

Brief Summary

 

During Semester 1 you will completing the following modules.

Introduction to Professional Healthcare Practice

This interprofessional module will provide you with the opportunity to learn from, about and with students from other professional programmes. As an interprofessional group of learners you will explore what it means to be a professional within the context of ethical, legal and regulatory frameworks as applied to your professional healthcare discipline.

You will be given the opportunity to reflect and develop self-awareness to foster an understanding of your own beliefs, attitudes, values, knowledge, attributes and skills and explore how others may see the world differently to build and develop your professional identity.

This module is designed to aid your transition to university, introducing you to the concept of evidence-based practice and some of the study skills you will need to develop as an experiential and lifelong learner.

 

Nursing People and Families

This module will introduce you to the concept of compassionate, person-centred, evidence-based nursing care. You will learn how to holistically assess, plan, implement and evaluate evidence-based care for individuals, their families and carers across all stages of the lifespan.

You will develop knowledge of body systems, human development, human anatomy and physiology and pharmacology. You will recognise commonly encountered mental, physical, behavioural and cognitive conditions and explore a range of evidence-based interventions including commonly occurring medicines and therapeutic approaches.

Case studies will be used to develop the focus on assessment and care planning across the lifespan.

 

Assisting Nursing Care

This module aims to develop your knowledge, experience and skills in relation to person centred nursing care, in a clinical practice setting relating to your field of nursing, with a specific focus upon practical skills, medicines management, fundamentals of nursing practice, communication and reflective practice.

You will undertake study related to the underpinning theory around common practical skills related to nursing care alongside having the opportunity to develop those practical skills by undertaking simulated practice within the University Skills and Simulation suites.

You will begin to develop an understanding of evidence-based practice and practical skills that are required to fulfil the role of the nurse. This module will prepare you for future Nursing Care modules, to enable you to progress to Part 2 of the nursing programme.

 

Introduction to Pharmacology and Numeracy for Nursing Practice

In this module you will develop your knowledge and skills in relation to pharmacology, health numeracy and medicines calculations. You will be introduced to two e-learning platforms SCRIPT and safemedicate.

There will be opportunities to explore the types of drug calculations commonly used in practice and engage with them to find areas of challenge. You will examine the base constituents of common drugs and administration routes, to understand how interactions occur.

The module will also explore methods to minimise the risk of drug calculation and administration errors. You will have unlimited access to the two virtual platforms to practice calculations formatively.

 

Your learning on campus will be a mixture of lectures, seminars and hands-on skills and simulation sessions. We’re a friendly bunch and will help you become acclimatised to academic life at Newman and how to develop the behaviours needed to make a success of your time here and your future career as a Nurse.

 

 

Pre-Course Reading

 

We know you’ll be keen to get started, these sources will help you brush up on your knowledge and skills, but don’t worry, we will be starting at the beginning!

Anatomy & Physiology
BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/examspecs/zcq2j6f
YouTube https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=human+physiology

Health & Nursing Issues
BBC Health News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health
Nursing Standard https://journals.rcni.com/journal/ns (free to register and browse)

Weekly Planner & Timetables

 

BSc Nursing (Adult & Mental Health)

 

 

 

BSc Nursing (Adult & Mental Health) Weekly Planner Part/ Year 1 Academic Year 23-24

 

 

Weekly Module teaching timings

NB: Module teaching times may be subject to change based on the needs of the programme. If a change occurs this will be communicated to you in a timely manner where possible. You will receive more information regarding your timings for each day on your individual timetable when you have enrolled and been allocated to your teaching groups.

Please cross reference this with the Programme Planner to ensure that you understand the weeks of study that the teaching times below refer to.

Semester 1:
Tuesday: Introduction to Professional Healthcare Practice
Weeks – 2,4 & 6 = 10:00am – 5:00pm
Weeks – 3,5,7,8,15 & 16 = 10:00am – 4:00pm

Semester 1&2:
Thursday: Assisting Nursing Care
Weeks – 2-8, 15-16, 21-26, 37-38 & 42-43 = 9:30am – 1:00pm OR 1:30pm – 5:00pm
NB: you will either be in skills teaching in the morning or the afternoon – this will alternate weekly based on the group that you are allocated to.
Thursday: Introduction to Pharmacology and Numeracy for Nursing Practice.

This is a directed learning module that will run throughout the year. You will have dedicated time for this module every Thursday when you are not in skills session for Assisting Nursing Care, however if you choose to complete this module on another day you may do so.

Friday: Nursing People and Families
Weeks – 2-8, 15-16, 21-26, 37-38 & 42-43 = 10:00am – 3:00pm
Semester 2:
Tuesday: Healthy Individuals and Communities
Weeks – 21-26, 37-38 = 9:00am – 3:00pm
Weeks – 42-43 = 10:00am – 3:00pm

 

Nursing and Physiotherapy Welcome Week Timetable

 

 

 

As part of the course, you will be provided with practice placements. Details regarding time commitment involved for these placements will have provided by the subject area as a later point.

For on campus activities students are split into groups at enrolment. Each group will have its own timetable where some aspects can change on a weekly basis. Normally classes will be distributed across 3 to 4 days per week between 9.00-18.00.

For Physiotherapy, the on-campus days in semester 1 are Monday, Tuesday, and Thursdays.
For Adult Nursing and Mental Health Nursing the on-campus days in semester 1 are Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.

Full details of your individual academic timetable will be available via your university email calendar after you have completed online enrolment and set up your student login.