Nursing MSc

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, you should be able to 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, this module will help you 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, you will 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. Through this, you will develop the skills to gather, interpret and use evidence from a variety of sources to support safe, effective and person-centred care. Ethical issues in research, such as consent, confidentiality and the role of the nurse researcher, will be a key part of your learning, helping you consider the responsibilities involved in conducting studies that influence practice.

By the end of the module, you should be able to design your own research proposal, using appropriate methods and ethical frameworks to explore a nursing-related issue. Reflect on the impact of research in driving forward professional practice and demonstrate your ability to contribute to the growing evidence base in healthcare.

Compulsory

Learn what it takes to become an effective strategic leader in health and social care. Explore key leadership theories, project management tools, and change strategies to help you understand how to lead and improve services in real-world settings.

Using your own experiences in health or social care, learn how to think strategically and apply systems thinking to tackle complex challenges. Develop the skills to influence organisational goals, lead change with confidence, and solve problems creatively using data and evidence.

By the end of the module, you’ll create a detailed service improvement plan and a strategic change proposal, giving you hands-on experience in shaping better healthcare services both locally and globally.

This module also reflects the CMI Level 7 professional standards for Strategic Management and Leadership Practice and includes the CMI units 704 (Developing Organisational Strategy) and 705 (Leading Strategic Change).

If you successfully pass the module and meet the CMI learning outcomes of units 704 and 705 (subject to CMI accreditation, successful registration and CMI moderation), you will be eligible for the CMI Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice.

Compulsory

In this dissertation module, you will undertake an in-depth individual study in a related topic around nursing practice that interests you. You will have a supervisor to help guide you through the process. Through this project, learn about the research process, including important ethical and theoretical issues connected to your topic. Develop your skills in critically evaluating information. This module builds on what you’ve already learned in earlier parts of the course.

Compulsory