Module Code - Title:
NM4116
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TRANSITION TOWARDS A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER
Year Last Offered:
2025/6
Hours Per Week:
Grading Type:
N
Prerequisite Modules:
Rationale and Purpose of the Module:
This module will provide students with a deeper understanding of contemporary professional roles and responsibilities related to clinical judgement and decision making. It will enable students to apply this knowledge in becoming a lifelong reflective learner and competent practitioner.
Syllabus:
Professional values and scope of practice; responsibility and expectations towards becoming a competent practitioner including continuing professional development. Reflective practice as a lifelong endeavour in fulfilling personal and professional accountability. Clinical judgement and decision making guiding practice; responding to, reporting and referring to incidents and practice events, developing resilience in sustaining therapeutic relationships in dynamic changing healthcare environments. Approaches to adult learning, principles of preceptorship including the promotion of a quality clinical learning environment, models of supervision. Becoming a lifelong learner, practitioner and scholar.
Learning Outcomes:
Cognitive (Knowledge, Understanding, Application, Analysis, Evaluation, Synthesis)
Explore professional values and responsibilities informing clinical decision making in practice.
Critically discuss the influences of individual, professional and organisational values and systems on healthcare practice.
Affective (Attitudes and Values)
Appreciate the value of resilience and self-care within dynamic therapeutic relationships.
Value reflective practice in developing both personally and professionally. Demonstrate a proactive commitment to become a lifelong learner, practitioner and scholar.
Psychomotor (Physical Skills)
N/A
How the Module will be Taught and what will be the Learning Experiences of the Students:
This module will encourage an engaged learning environment through a variety of learning and teaching strategies e.g. lectures, discussions, group work, self-directed learning, independent learning; recommended reading, reflection, enquiry/problem based learning. Students will be encouraged to maximise individual responsibility within a collaborative learning environment. This module will foster the development of UL graduate attributes through promoting, sustaining and engaging in reflective, critical, creative and proactive approaches to learning for practice.
This module will utilise research and evidence based literature and apply it to clinical practice.
Research Findings Incorporated in to the Syllabus (If Relevant):
Prime Texts:
Cottrell, S. (2023)
Critical thinking skills: effective analysis, argument and reflection. 4th ed.
, Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
Johns, C. (2017)
Being and becoming a reflective practitioner, 5th ed.
, London. Wiley - Blackwell Scientific.
Price, B. and Harrington, A. (2016)
Critical thinking and writing for nursing students
, Exeter: Learning Matters.
Other Relevant Texts:
Timmins, F. (2015)
A-Z of reflective practice
, London: Palgrave.
Hughes, S.J. and Quinn, F. M. (2013)
Quinn's principles and practice of nurse education, 6th ed.
, Hampshire: Cengage Learning.
Programme(s) in which this Module is Offered:
BSNUGEUFA - NURSING (GENERAL)
BSNUIDUFA - NURSING (INTELLECTUAL DISABILITY)
BSNUMHUFA - NURSING (MENTAL HEALTH)
BSMIDWUFA - MIDWIFERY
Semester(s) Module is Offered:
Spring
Module Leader:
Jennifer.Byrne@ul.ie