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The purpose of the Bachelor of Science (Nursing) General Nursing is to prepare students to obtain a level 8 honours award and to register as a nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI). BSc General Nursing students will be prepared to promote health, wellbeing and dignity across the lifespan through skilled, ethical and careful practice, based on best evidence and professional judgement. This is achieved though the development of lifelong learning skills for their personal and professional development of knowledge, skills, competencies and attitudes over the duration of the programme. This programme facilitates the learner to be active, reflexive, autonomous, and motivated through engagement in innovative teaching and learning activities throughout the duration of the BSc Nursing programme. The curriculum is student-focused and research informed. This is evidenced through the formation of identity, resilience, integrity, leadership capability, commitment, and curiosity for the provision of holistic, safe, ethical, compassionate and evidence based nursing care. The curriculum is continuously developed with stakeholder involvement to ensure it meets the current and future needs of learners, and the complex and evolving healthcare system (community, primary and tertiary care). A wide variety of innovative pedagogies and technologies ensure that teaching, learning and assessment approaches encourage the incremental development of learning. Teaching and learning takes place in multiple environments across the university and clinical practice settings. A major strength of the programme is the partnership with our professional clinical partners across the healthcare sector. Programmes are delivered by experts in the fields of education and professional clinical practice. This ensures that learners experience coherent, cumulative, research-based educational programmes that meet all academic and professional regulations, standards and requirements. A unique strength of this programme is that fifty percent of the programme is clinically focused and students receive supported clinical experience from stage one of their programme.
Students are required to take all core modules. There are no elective modules in stage 1. Students must successfully complete all of the requirements for Stage 1 clinical practice module before progressing onto Stage 2.
Students take all core modules. They also take one option/elective module in autumn trimester. Please do not select an elective in the spring trimester as you will be on clinical practice. For each theory module successfully completed at level 2, 5 ECTS credits will be awarded. A total of 30 ECTS credits will be awarded for successfully completed clinical practice at level 2. Students must successfully complete all of the requirements for Stage 2 clinical practice module before progressing onto Stage 3.
Students take all core modules. They also take two option/elective modules in the spring trimester. Please do not select an elective in the autumn trimester as you will be on clinical practice. For each theory module successfully completed at Level 3, 5 ECTS credits will be awarded. A total of 25 ECTS credits will be awarded for successfully completed clinical practice at Level 3. Students must successfully complete all of the requirements for Stage 3 clinical practice module before progressing onto Stage 4.
Students will take ten (10) core modules, five (5) of which will be clinical modules. Students must successfully complete all practice placement modules for their stage before they complete the programme.
Module ID | Module Title | Trimester | Credits |
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NMHS10360 | Academic Writing & Reading in Nursing and Midwifery | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS10480 | Sci Principles Healthcare 1 | Autumn | 10 |
NMHS10490 | Intro Psychology&Communication | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS10520 | Nursing Fundamentals | Autumn | 10 |
NMHS10440 | Nursing Concepts and Values | Spring | 5 |
NMHS10450 | Clinical Practice 1 (G) | Spring | 15 |
NMHS10460 | Sci Principles Healthcare 2 | Spring | 5 |
NMHS10470 | Foundations of General Nursing | Spring | 5 |
NMHS20740 | Patient Safety & Microbiology | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS20750 | Altered Resp & Cardio Function | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS20760 | Neuro & musculoskeletal nurse | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS20830 | Health Prom Research Spec Set | Autumn | 5 |
PHAR20030 | Pharmacology | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS20680 | Clinical Practice 2 (G) | Spring | 30 |
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN0OF: You must register to one (1) elective module in the AUT trimester which can be selected from either one of the non-mandatory elective modules offered in the school or an elective module elsewhere in the university. Please do not select elective modules in the SPR trimester as you will be on clinical practice |
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NMHS10100 | Health across the Lifespan | Autumn | 5 |
Stage 2 Options - A)MIN0OF: You must register to one (1) elective module in the AUT trimester which can be selected from either one of the non-mandatory elective modules offered in the school or an elective module elsewhere in the university. Please do not select elective modules in the SPR trimester as you will be on clinical practice |
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NMHS33240 | Ageing and Health | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS33440 | Clinical Practice 3 (G) | Autumn | 25 |
NMHS32290 | Ethical&Legal Context Prof Pra | Spring | 5 |
NMHS33290 | General Nursing 4 | Spring | 5 |
NMHS33460 | Pop Hlth Diversity & Research | Spring | 5 |
NMHS33500 | General Nursing 3 | Spring | 5 |
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: You must register to two (2) elective modules in the SPR trimester which can be selected from either the non-mandatory elective modules offered in the school or elective modules elsewhere in the university. Please do not select elective modules in the AUT trimester as you will be on clinical practice |
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NMHS32340 | Maternal and Foetal wellbeing | Autumn and Spring (separate) | 5 |
NMHS32250 | Arts and Health | Spring | 5 |
Stage 3 Options - A)MIN0OF: You must register to two (2) elective modules in the SPR trimester which can be selected from either the non-mandatory elective modules offered in the school or elective modules elsewhere in the university. Please do not select elective modules in the AUT trimester as you will be on clinical practice |
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NMHS30290 | Leadership & Management | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS33640 | Preparing for Internship (G) | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS33670 | Health Psychology & Sociology | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS33680 | Nursing complex needs | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS33690 | Evidence Based Practice HCare | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS33700 | Prac Plac Supernumerary 4 (G) | Autumn | 5 |
NMHS30300 | Practice Placement 4A Internship (G) | Spring | 5 |
NMHS30310 | Practice Placement 4B Internship (G) | Spring | 5 |
NMHS33650 | Prac Plac 4C Internship (G) | Summer | 10 |
NMHS33660 | Prac Plac 4D Internship (G) | Summer | 10 |
Award | GPA | ||||
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Programme | Module Weightings | Rule Description | Description | ||
BHNUR001 | Stage 4 - 70.00% Stage 3 - 30.00% |
Standard Honours Award | First Class Honours | 3.68 |
4.20 |
Second Class Honours, Grade 1 | 3.08 |
3.67 |
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Second Class Honours, Grade 2 | 2.48 |
3.07 |
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Pass | 2.00 |
2.47 |
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BHNUR007 | Stage 4 - 50.00% Stage 3 - 30.00% Stage 2 - 20.00% |
Standard Honours Award | First Class Honours | 3.68 |
4.20 |
Second Class Honours, Grade 1 | 3.08 |
3.67 |
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Second Class Honours, Grade 2 | 2.48 |
3.07 |
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Pass | 2.00 |
2.47 |