MSc (Top up) Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - School Nursing

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Course Leader: Theresa Titchener

Start date: September 2024 or January 2025

School: Health & Social Work

MSc (Top-up) Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting)

Once students exit the programme with one of the following awards:

PgDip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) or

PgDip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (School Nursing)

and have recorded their qualification with the NMC they can return to complete the remaining 60 credits for their MSc.

Please note that Integrating Research with Contemporary Practice 7HSK2078 must be passed before starting study on Preparation for Research Project 7HSK2049. If you choose to start 7HSK2078 in Semester B you must apply to study 7HSK2049 in the next academic year.

Modules

Integrating Research with Contemporary Practice
This module will examine the epistemology of research, the principles of ethical research and a critical analysis of how it is used in practice. Key aspects of content will address data collection and analysis methods and concepts of validity, reliability, rigour and trustworthiness. It will also incorporate other forms of evidence including audit and service evaluation. The emphasis throughout this module will be on the use and relevance of research skills to practitioners seeking to assess, improve or evaluate services. The module will harness students existing personal and life skills and knowledge of care as a basis for developing learning that is relevant and focussed on their practice needs and stage of professional development.
Preparation for Research Project

This module builds on Research Methods fostering a “research-tutored” approach where students critically appraise the evidence in relation to their own discipline in order to identify a feasible research question and an appropriate means to answer it.

The term “research” is used in its broadest sense to denote any form of inquiry focussed on an area of the student’s professional practice. This may include quantitative research, qualitative research, mixed methods, systematic reviews, literature reviews, retrospective data analysis, audit and evaluation of a healthcare innovation. The student will choose the focus of their project, develop the necessary academic skills and understand, critique and apply relevant theoretical approaches to formulate a research question and proposal in keeping with their chosen method of inquiry.

Teaching and learning will comprise of compulsory components to equip students with key skills, including identification, critique, synthesis and organisation of a relevant body of evidence, critical use of theoretical approaches, and Masters’ level academic writing, to enable them to prepare, plan and carry out their Research Project module.

Methods of inquiry and profession specific workshops will provide students with guidance relevant to their topic, and their chosen data collection method and data analysis, including processes of governance and ethical review where relevant. Students will also learn about the role of the research supervisor.

Course Leader

Theresa Titchener

Start date

September 2024 or January 2025

Faculty

Health & Social Work

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