MSc Nursing (Pre-registration - Adult)
University of Lincoln
Key Information
Campus location
Lincoln, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
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Introduction
The MSc Nursing (Pre-registration - Adult) course aims to prepare graduates for the complex, demanding, and rewarding area of adult nursing. The course provides those from a range of backgrounds with the opportunity to transfer their skills to become registered nurses (adults).
This Master's is for graduates of a degree who aspire to qualify for eligibility to apply to the Nursing and Midwifery Council Register.
The course is underpinned by the core values of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and aims to promote critical thinking skills and the spirit of inquiry.
Over the past few decades, the role of the nurse has developed due to the changing context of health and social care, resulting in a wide range of new roles and services. Registered nurses (adults) hold a significant role in terms of leading and coordinating care provision for people across the lifespan; aware of complex mental, physical, cognitive and behavioural care needs of those they look after.
This Master's degree aims to develop registered nurses (adults) who prioritise people by providing safe and effective care, educating those in their care through the use of technology, promoting health literacy to prevent ill health, and supporting healthy choices and lifestyles. The course has been developed to raise the professional values and social conscience of students to prepare them for future healthcare roles.
Nurses translate evidence-based knowledge to improve healthcare delivery while maintaining and emphasising the ethics of person-centred care. Modules on this course have been designed with this in mind and aim to stimulate innovation, improve quality, manage risk, and identify areas for productive change.
The University of Lincoln, together with our practice partners, share a vision to prepare students to become dynamic nurses that are fit for practice in rapidly changing and challenging care environments.
Prioritising Face-to-Face Teaching
At the University of Lincoln, we strive to ensure our students’ experience is engaging, supportive, and academically challenging. Throughout the Coronavirus pandemic, we have adapted to Government guidance to keep our students, staff, and community safe. All remaining Covid-19 legal restrictions in England were lifted in February 2022 under the Government’s Plan for Living with Covid-19, and we have embraced a safe return to in-person teaching on campus. Where appropriate, face-to-face teaching is enhanced by the use of digital tools and technology and may be complemented by online opportunities where these support learning outcomes.
We are fully prepared to adapt our plans if changes in Government guidance make this necessary, and we will endeavour to keep current and prospective students informed.
"This information was correct at the time of publishing (July 2023)"
Admissions
Curriculum
How You Study
Collaboration is a key part of this Master's degree and students are encouraged to learn with and from other healthcare professionals. Students will be able to apply their taught learning experiences in real-world settings as the program is structured through fifty percent theory and fifty percent practice.
Students can work in collaboration and partnership with academics, practitioners, service users, and other students. The course aims to empower students to become nurses that are resilient, caring, reflective, and lifelong learners to facilitate knowledge of other roles and services, inter-agency cooperation, and the confidence to work across professional boundaries.
Student as Producer
Research-engaged and evidence-based learning and teaching are at the core of the student learning experience in this course. Student as Producer is a model of teaching and learning that encourages academics and undergraduate students to collaborate on research activities. It is a program committed to learning through doing.
The principles of Student as Producer are discovery, collaboration, engagement, and production.
Discovery
Students can learn through their own research. Independent learning is promoted in each module through both directed and self-directed study, enabling students to contextualize the taught content to their field of practice and promoting independent study as a process students can use throughout their professional careers.
Collaboration
Interprofessional working is an important part of the course. Students can work together to develop their knowledge and understanding and students can collaborate among professional peer groups and staff. Students are seen as partners in the production and dissemination of knowledge.
Engagement
Students can develop their confidence and identity as a member of a professional community. Students can transfer and apply their learning to nursing practice, fully engaging with reflection and the proactive identification of their own learning needs.
Production
The course focuses on the production of professionally relevant and innovative learning outputs that can be applied and implemented within nursing practice, as well as focusing on the achievement of academic learning outcomes.
Students undertake a range of modules on the course.
First-year modules:
- Essential Interprofessional Practice
- Assessing Needs, Planning, and Coordinating Care
- Providing and Evaluating Care
- Leadership and Supervision in Nursing Practice
Second-year modules:
- Applied Health Improvement
- Service Evaluation for Clinical Practice
- Service Transformation
- Being an Accountable Professional Registered Nurse (Adult)
- Managing Complex Care
By the end of the program, students must be able to demonstrate competence against the Future Nurse: Standards of Proficiency for registered nurses. These include being an accountable professional, Promoting health and preventing ill health, assessing needs and planning care, providing and evaluating care, leading and managing nursing care and working in teams, improving safety and quality of care and, coordinating care.
Work Placements
Work placements are designed to prepare students to meet the challenges of a rapidly changing clinical environment, whether this is a hospital, GP surgery, or community healthcare setting.
Study Abroad
In the second year, students have the opportunity to undertake an elective placement either overseas or in the UK. Placements can enable students to focus on an alternative healthcare context and offer the opportunity to gain insight into, and experience, working alongside colleagues from a range of disciplines.
Please note, students are responsible for their own travel, accommodation, and general living costs while on placement or studying abroad.
Modules
- Applied Health Improvement (Core)
- Assessing needs, planning, and coordinating care (L7) (Core)
- Being an Accountable Professional Registered Nurse (Adult) (L7) (Core)
- Essential Interprofessional Practice (Core)
- Leadership and Supervision in Nursing Practice (Core)
- Managing complex care (L7) (Core)
- Providing and evaluating care (L7) (Core)
- Service Evaluation for Clinical Practice (Core)
- Service Transformation (Core)
How You Are Assessed
Students are assessed both formally and informally throughout the course to develop learning and autonomy. Assessments can take place both within the University and practice placement environments. Practice-based learning will be assessed as either a pass or a fail. Academic work contributes towards their final grade.
Some of the assessment on the course is led by tutors, however, students are encouraged to engage in peer and self-assessment to help develop the skills of reflection and evaluation which are essential for lifelong learning and continued professional development, following registration as a nurse.
Some of the assessments focus on theoretical knowledge and the application of theory, and others on the practical performance of technical skills and patient management.
Assessments throughout the program have been designed to be relevant to professional working practices.
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Program Outcome
How You Study
Collaboration is a key part of this Master's degree and students are encouraged to learn with and from other healthcare professionals. Students will be able to apply their taught learning experiences in real-world settings as the Program is structured through fifty per cent theory and fifty per cent practice.
Students can work in collaboration and partnership with academics, practitioners, service users, and other students. The course aims to empower students to become nurses that are resilient, caring, reflective, and lifelong learners to facilitate knowledge of other roles and services, inter-agency cooperation, and the confidence to work across professional boundaries.
Student as Producer
Research-engaged and evidence-based learning and teaching is at the core of the student learning experience on this course. Student as Producer is a model of teaching and learning that encourages academics and undergraduate students to collaborate on research activities. It is a Program committed to learning through doing.
The principles of Student as Producer are discovery, collaboration, engagement, and production.
Discovery
Students can learn through their own research. Independent learning is promoted on each module through both directed and self-directed study, enabling students to contextualise the taught content to their field of practice and promoting independent study as a process students can use throughout their professional career.
Collaboration
Interprofessional working is an important part of the course. Students can work together to develop their knowledge and understanding and students can collaborate amongst professional peer groups and staff. Students are seen as partners in the production and dissemination of knowledge.
Engagement
Students can develop their confidence and identity as a member of a professional community. Students can transfer and apply their learning to nursing practice, fully engaging with reflection, and the proactive identification of their own learning needs.
Production
The course focuses on the production of professionally relevant and innovative learning outputs that can be applied and implemented within nursing practice, as well as focusing on the achievement of academic learning outcomes.
By the end of the Program students must be able to demonstrate competence against the Future nurse: Standards of proficiency for registered nurses. These include being an accountable professional, Promoting health and preventing ill health, assessing needs and planning care, providing and evaluating care, leading and managing nursing care and working in teams, improving safety and quality of care and, coordinating care.
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
Our first cohort of Nursing students graduated and registered with the NMC in January 2022. All went on to work in a wide range of healthcare settings in both community and acute services within Lincolnshire, Nottinghamshire, and further afield in Norfolk, Bristol, and Cambridge in posts such as community staff nurse, GP practice nurse, and nurses in A&E departments.