FdSc Nursing Associate Foundation degree at Teesside University

You explore body systems, altered cognition, disability, illnesses and disease, ensuring parity of content. You engage in all four fields of nursing practice, utilising a whole person approach with emphasis on the complexity of the individual.

You take part in practice-based learning within your place of employment and your placement areas. The variety of settings for your placements provides a broad learning environment. You also simulate clinical skills and procedures to support your work-based learning.

You explore decision-making and therapeutic interventions within nursing associate practice across a range of health and social care settings. You explore the relevant theories and influences linked to the wider determinants of health and wellbeing, developing your ability to facilitate an individual's health journey across the lifespan using a biopsychosocial approach.

You explore the philosophical basis and key concepts underpinning approaches to working with different people and service user groups. The biopsychosocial experience and impact of altered health and wellbeing, physical illness, cognition or treatment of the person and family is examined from the service user perspective.

You explore the knowledge to develop study skills, introduce reflective practice, and develop an understanding of professionalism and professional practice. You are introduced to the theoretical concepts underpinning professional practice including self-awareness, resilience, and self-management. You develop your understanding of the NMC Code, the expectations placed on them, and the principles of literature searching.

You develop your knowledge and understanding of acute and long-term conditions across the health and social care sector. You explore the impact of co-morbidities on patient experience and outcomes. A biopsychosocial approach ensures you look at the whole patient with consideration for assessment and safe management of all service users, across all health and social care settings.

You explore public health inequalities within health and social care practice. Appraisal of epidemiological and demographic data in addition to the national and local public health policies is undertaken to identify areas of need for service users, communities, and the wider population.

You further develop your knowledge and skills for practice. You build on your clinical skills base and ability to select and use best available evidence to support your decision-making in practice according to your role. The module is work-based learning within your primary placement area and placements within other practice areas. Your placement journey provides learning opportunities in a variety of settings, including experience of child and adult patients, and service users with mental healt

Build your knowledge and skills relating to health and social care practice, and your ability to critically appraise evidence relevant to the subject. Explore how evidence is used to underpin national guidelines, decision-making and high-quality nursing practice. Apply leadership and change management concepts to explore service improvement models that facilitate your ability to contribute to change.

You develop a comprehensive understanding of the unique perspectives, knowledge, and skills of the people you work with, and different members of the health and social care team. This knowledge is used to promote positive people-centred outcomes through collaborative and integrated working and further understanding of your scope of practice.