Nursing Studies

Explore the bigger picture of health by looking at how factors like poverty, education, employment and global events impact people’s wellbeing. Examine key principles of public and global health, as well as the social issues that create health inequalities. By engaging with different theories, values and concepts, develop a strong understanding of the challenges faced by communities around the world and the role of nursing in responding to them.

Learn about health promotion and how nurses can help prevent chronic illnesses while supporting people living with long-term conditions. Critically explore different approaches to managing long-term health issues and promoting wellbeing, focusing on the needs of individuals, families and communities. This module aims to build your confidence to support person-centred and family-centred care.

As you progress, reflect on how all of this affects your role as a nurse. Consider the challenges involved in promoting public health and encouraging self-management, and explore how nurses can work effectively with other professionals to improve health outcomes in real-world settings.

Compulsory

Explore how the role of the nurse is shaped by wider social, cultural, economic and political influences. Think critically about how nursing practice is evolving in today’s complex healthcare environments and how nurses contribute to improving health across different care settings.

Investigate how nursing knowledge is developed and applied in practice, using research findings and your own professional experiences to examine the key factors that affect nursing care. This includes looking at how healthcare systems are organised, the challenges facing the workforce and how professional regulation, autonomy, and workplace culture influence what nurses do and how they are perceived.

As you progress through the module, learn how to evaluate and apply evidence from a range of sources to improve how care is delivered. Examine how policies and national interventions can shape the quality of care and critically reflect on how social systems, like class, culture, or politics, can affect the way nurses practise.

Compulsory

Build a strong understanding of how research works and why it’s essential in nursing. Explore different research approaches, from qualitative interviews to large-scale surveys, learning how each method can help answer important questions in healthcare. Look at how to critically assess research, understand its strengths and limitations and decide how reliable and useful it is for real-world nursing practice.

Focus on applying research findings to improve decision-making, care quality and patient outcomes. Thro