Program Overview

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Course overview

Studied on campus or 100% online, this Nursing MSc course is designed to offer continuing education and professional development to nurses to enhance your knowledge to underpin practice in a wide range of care settings.

The course is designed to provide Continuing Professional Development to a widening group of UK and internationally-based nurses, and aims to develop nurses in support of the global health economy and their contribution to nursing practice in a range of contexts.

You will have the opportunity to examine contemporary issues in nursing, and in the role and practice of the nurse through the analysis of political, social, cultural and economic influences on health and social care needs and service design.

You will study some of the latest developments in a range of contemporary issues in nursing, covering a range of key areas including leadership, evidence-based practice, and service delivery and improvement.

Particular emphasis is placed on the research and evidence base for leadership, service delivery and improvement.

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Global ready

An international outlook, with global opportunities

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Teaching excellence

Taught by lecturers who are experts in their field

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Employability

Career ready graduates, with the skills to succeed

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Why you should study this course

This course has been designed following extensive consultation with stakeholders and professional partners to ensure its relevance and ability to develop nursing leaders and agents of change.

You will be encouraged to consider how contemporary issues in nursing relate to your current practice and how what you learn can make a difference to, and improve the experience of patients/service users.

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to analyse approaches to support leadership, quality and service improvement and project management within policy and professional frameworks of nursing. You will also be able to demonstrate a professional approach to self-development in a broad range of competencies relevant to nursing across national borders and areas of practice including digital literacy, critical decision making, problem-solving, presentation and teamwork.

The course may be studied on-campus at Coventry University or online.

The enhanced skills and knowledge successful graduates of this course bring to their work provides a range of benefits, not only to the student but also their employer and patients/service users.

Students:

Access to learning from staff who are subject and clinical experts with knowledge of the latest developments in the field (staff may be subject to change)

Opportunity to network with a range of students from different backgrounds and disciplines

Improved knowledge of some of the latest developments in clinical practice and leadership

Enhanced critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills; and

Demonstrable leadership skills and knowledge through project work and accreditation from the Chartered Management Institute following the successful completion of an optional Global Professional Development module.

Employers:

Staff with developed confidence in clinical leadership

Enhanced ability to challenge practice and embed relevant evidence base to support quality care

Enhanced ability to innovate and lead clinical practices change derived from current policy initiatives and evidence bases

Increased commitment to achieving and leading quality care in service delivery; and

Staff who are better able to be flexible, engage in and potentially lead service developments.

Patients/Service Users/Carers:

Receive effective and comprehensive care from a professional who is:

Knowledgeable and skilled in practice

Able to challenge poor practice

Committed to demonstrating and developing contemporary practice to enhance quality in healthcare and healthcare practice

Committed to patient centred care

Patients/clients have access to, and benefit from enhanced quality in healthcare services.

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Accreditation and Professional Recognition

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Chartered Management Institute (CMI)

As part of this course, you will undertake a professional development module which is currently accredited

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by the

Chartered Management Institute

(CMI) for the 2022-23 intake. Upon successful completion of the module, you will gain the CMI

Level 7 Certificate in Strategic Management and Leadership Practice

at no additional cost. Further details can be found under the module section and on the

Professional Development module

homepage.

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Everything was well organised including the teaching which enabled our studies. I have learned so much and am wearing a different lens in nursing now – I love this programme.

Sela Fakatou, Nursing MSc, 2022