Workplace Education in Healthcare (Online)

Code

NURS3131

School

Nursing

Level

3

Credits

20

Semesters

Autumn UK, Spring UK, Summer UK

Summary

This course considers:

• The individual student’s clinical setting and their contribution to teaching and assessing in that environment;
• Educational theory to enable facilitation of learning and application of assessment principles within the clinical setting;
• Innovation, change and sustainability within education applied to the student’s clinical setting;
• Reflections on their own personal learning and how this contributes to their professional development;
• Dissemination of the outcomes of the student’s learning to demonstrate improvements in clinical education.

Target Students

Registered Nurses

Classes

• One 7-hour lecture each week for 8 weeks

200 hours of learning.

Assessment

• 100% Assignment: Written assignment of up to 3000 words - a critical examination of the development of work-based education in your practice.

Assessed in both autumn & spring semest

Educational Aims

Learning Outcomes

Express what has been learnt about the teaching of a particular specialist area and explain how this knowledge supports professional practice and facilitate with an understanding of reflection in terms of developing teaching skills  



 

Examine the educational demands of professional role in the light of national and local priorities and clinical requirements. 

Critically review the significance of learning and assessment to students and themselves. 

Reflect on how this learning will benefit own clinical setting.

Review own learning needs with regard to further professional development within a field of expertise.

Analyse professional development in preparing to disseminate this work.

Conveners

• Mr Christopher Palmer