Module Information
Module Identifier
NU33860
Module Title
Leading Professional Practice (Part B3)
Academic Year
2025/2026
Co-ordinator
Semester
Semester 1
Pre-Requisite
Pre-Requisite
NU10120, NU10220, NU10320, NU10460, NU20120, NU20220, NU20320, NU20420, NU20520, NU20620, NU20760 or NU22700 Core modules
Reading List
Other Staff
Course Delivery
Assessment
| Assessment Type | Assessment length / details | Proportion |
|---|---|---|
| Semester Assessment | 800 Hours Continuous clinical assessment Continuous clinical assessment (reflective of the student’s chosen field of practice) | 100% |
| Supplementary Assessment | 800 Hours Continuous Clinical Assessment Students must pass each element detailed in the Practice Assessment Document for Part 3 to register | 100% |
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module students should be able to:
Reflect the qualities associated with being an accountable professional
Engage in specific health promotion strategies
Assess fundamental service user needs and plan person centred holistic nursing care
Provide safe, compassionate effective nursing care and evaluate efficacy against individual service user outcomes
Lead and manage own delivery of nursing care, working effectively with teams to coordinate care for individual service users
Describe current strategies used to monitor the safety and quality of care
Evaluate the benefits of interprofessional education within healthcare
Brief description
The United Kingdom Nursing and Midwifery Council Future nurse: Standards of proficiency for registered nurses (NMC 2018a) require registrants to have the confidence and ability to think critically, apply knowledge and skills, and provide expert, evidence based, direct nursing care across health care settings.
Registered nurses must be able to meet the person-centred, holistic care needs of the people they encounter in their practice who may be at any stage of life and who may have a range of mental, physical, cognitive or behavioural health challenges.
Registrants “must also be able to demonstrate a greater depth of knowledge and the additional more advanced skills required to meet the specific care needs of people in their chosen fields of nursing practice.” (NMC 2018a, p.6). The All Wales Practice Assessment strategy for pre-registration nursing programmes, which leads to entry to the professional register, identifies the process by which student performance is measured against NMC Future nurse: Standards of proficiency for registered nurses (NMC 2018a).
The proficiencies in this document specify the knowledge and skills that registered nurses must demonstrate when caring for people of all ages and across all care settings. They reflect what the public can expect nurses to know and be able to do in order to deliver safe, compassionate and effective nursing care.
Registered nurses must be able to meet the person-centred, holistic care needs of the people they encounter in their practice who may be at any stage of life and who may have a range of mental, physical, cognitive or behavioural health challenges.
Registrants “must also be able to demonstrate a greater depth of knowledge and the additional more advanced skills required to meet the specific care needs of people in their chosen fields of nursing practice.” (NMC 2018a, p.6). The All Wales Practice Assessment strategy for pre-registration nursing programmes, which leads to entry to the professional register, identifies the process by which student performance is measured against NMC Future nurse: Standards of proficiency for registered nurses (NMC 2018a).
The proficiencies in this document specify the knowledge and skills that registered nurses must demonstrate when caring for people of all ages and across all care settings. They reflect what the public can expect nurses to know and be able to do in order to deliver safe, compassionate and effective nursing care.
Content
The content of the module is reflective of regulatory NMC standards, which underlines the knowledge and skills required of a proficient registered nurse, and as such the module addresses the components set out in Parts 1, 2 and 3 of the NMC’s Realising Professionalism Standards as well the Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses.
Mapping of future nurse proficiencies and annexe skills and procedures The Nursing and Midwifery Council (2018) Standards of proficiency for registered nurses identify the proficiencies, communication and relationship management skills and nursing procedures a student nurse must be able to demonstrate to enter the NMC professional register as a Registered Nurse Graduate.
The proficiency outcomes contained within this Practice Assessment Document identify the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours that a student nurse must be able to demonstrate by the end of the programme. They are organised with reference to the NMC proficiency platforms and annexes (NMC 2018):
1. Being an accountable professional
2. Promoting health and preventing ill health
3. Assessing needs and planning care
4. Providing and evaluating care
5. Leading and managing nursing care and working in teams
6. Improving safety and quality of care
7. Coordinating care
Annexe A: Communication and relationship management skills Annexe B: Nursing procedures
Mapping of future nurse proficiencies and annexe skills and procedures The Nursing and Midwifery Council (2018) Standards of proficiency for registered nurses identify the proficiencies, communication and relationship management skills and nursing procedures a student nurse must be able to demonstrate to enter the NMC professional register as a Registered Nurse Graduate.
The proficiency outcomes contained within this Practice Assessment Document identify the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours that a student nurse must be able to demonstrate by the end of the programme. They are organised with reference to the NMC proficiency platforms and annexes (NMC 2018):
1. Being an accountable professional
2. Promoting health and preventing ill health
3. Assessing needs and planning care
4. Providing and evaluating care
5. Leading and managing nursing care and working in teams
6. Improving safety and quality of care
7. Coordinating care
Annexe A: Communication and relationship management skills Annexe B: Nursing procedures
Module Skills
| Skills Type | Skills details |
|---|---|
| Adaptability and resilience | The practice placement module will require the students to display their flexibility skills, by nursing a wide variety of patients requiring differing levels of care input across a range of care settings. By taking a leading role in care provision, students will need to demonstrate their abilities in being adaptive, creative and inventive in their everyday practice. Further, the clinical area can be challenging, and students may be exposed to difficult healthcare situations which can be emotio |
| Co-ordinating with others | This module will consolidate the student’s learning from the previous modules/years, with the practical application of theoretical knowledge in real time environments. The students will work as active members of the multidisciplinary team, and will lead and deliver on care activities, fully involving all members of the team, which will require coordination, organisational and negotiation skills. The students will be expected to engage in handover/transfer of clinical information, liaise with pat |
| Creative Problem Solving | During this module, students will again be exposed to clinical practice, and will be required to participate in the delivery of hands on patient care under direct supervision from clinical colleagues. Students will be required to display their learnt knowledge from past years whilst continuing to develop their problem-solving skills in real time environments. As a third-year senior student, they will be expected to be fully immersed in all aspects of clinical practice, and will take a leading |
| Critical and analytical thinking | Through exposure to real time clinical care, students will further advance their abilities in developing critical and analytical thinking skills. By taking a leading role in all aspects of care provision, students will utilise their skills and make decisions (under supervision) regarding the direction of care required for a group of adult patients of all ages. By being actively involved in delivering care, students will fully understand the level of critical thinking ability required in a rang |
| Digital capability | This module will require the students to continue to use/and learn how to: • use blackboard/pebble-pad • upload entries onto their Professional Assessment Document [PAD] • submit work electronically • use electronic platforms utilised in the clinical environment |
| Professional communication | This module will consolidate the student’s learning from the previous modules/years, with the practical application of theoretical knowledge in real time environments. The students will work as active members of the multidisciplinary team, and will lead and deliver on care activities, fully involving all members of the team, which will require excellent communication, coordination, organisational and negotiation skills. The students will be expected to engage in handover/transfer of clinical |
| Real world sense | This module will consolidate the student’s learning from the previous modules/years, with the practical application of theoretical knowledge in real time environments. Students will be able to practise their clinical skills and apply their knowledge to clinical situations under supervision of their practice supervisor and practice assessor. During this module, the students are expected to progress their clinical abilities, in order to fully realising RN status and being an autonomous practitione |
| Reflection | During this practice-based module, students will be exposed to ‘reflection in action’, which will see them developing their practice-based skills through clinical exposure and participation. By embracing their past experiences, students’ skills will develop and will begin to appreciate the role reflection has on their learning journey. Students will also further develop their ‘reflection on action’ skills by completing a reflective essay pertaining to their period in clinical practice. |
| Subject Specific Skills | Students will further develop their knowledge and skills in: delivering compassionate nursing care, professional nursing practice in relation to hands on delivery of care, clinical skills, essential/foundational skills (feeding/washing/toileting), assessment, care planning, care evaluation, investigations and treatment delivery, communication, the delivery of person-centred holistic care, safe practice, accountability, health promotion, working in a team and on own initiative. |
Notes
This module is at CQFW Level 6