Undergraduate Course: Learning and Reflecting in a Nursing Attachment (NUST10064)
Course Outline
| School | School of Health in Social Science |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The BN with Honours students complete an Attachment Placement during one semester of their third year. This amounts to 160 hours of clinical placement (2 days per week for 10 weeks) and gives opportunity to spend time with a specialist nurse or service. This course seeks to draw on that experience by assessing the student's ability to engage academically with the evidence underpinning their attachment to a specialist service. By helping students to bridge the theory/practice gap by contemporaneously combining academic assessment with clinical learning, this course has a very open format to permit students to learn experientially. |
| Course description |
Students will primarily learn experientially through an allocated NHS attachment. The assessment within the practice setting and oversight of clinical skills and professional requirements will remain part of the usual placement assessment processes and will not be part of the assessment of this course.
The teaching sessions will be reflective learning sessions in which a structured process of reflection will help students to engage with learning from the range of clinical experiences that they have encountered. Crucially they will also be expected to engage with academic literature on topic/topics emerging from their placement experience. This could include pathophysiology, approaches to care, ethics, cultural awareness, social and environmental factors emerging from the service with which they are placed.
The reflective sessions will provide scaffolding to student learning, ensuring that both theoretical and experiential understandings are relatable.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Students must be undertaking an attachment placement as part of the typical BN (Hons) placement flow. The student can only take this course once. If they repeat the attachment placement, they cannot take this course a second time. |
| Additional Costs | Placement costs are subject to the usual BN programme systems and reimbursements. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2025/26, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Flexible |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 5,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 160,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
28 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Annotated bibliography (60%)
Reflective account (40%) |
| Feedback |
There will be a formative assessment opportunity in the form of group work. Students will present one piece of literature that has shaped their understanding of evidence underpinning their attachment placement. They will then share with their groups the ways in which the literature has helped or challenged their experience in the placement. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- acquire the ability to identify and engage with the key evidence and literature underpinning practice in the specific specialist area in which you are placed.
- develop a critical understanding of the role of the nurse in the specialist service.
- acquire the ability to explore what can taken from specialist experience into more generic nursing practice in other clinical areas.
- develop the reflective abilities which can shape future practice and foster lifelong learning.
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Reading List
| See QMPLE for placement reading lists |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Reflection
Lifelong learning skills and reading from practice prompts and reflective activity
Learning from practice directly
Experiential learning skills |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
The teaching and learning in this course will largely take place within the allocated attachment placement. This will be allocated to the student prior to the start of the academic term and is quality assured in line with normal QA processes and placement governance. The contact time between students and academic staff will be limited to an introductory session (1h) and three subsequent single hour reflective discussion sessions. There will be an assessment Q&A session in which there will be a summative assessment opportunity. |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Sarah Rhynas
Tel: (0131 6)50 3882
Email: Sarah.Rhynas@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Lisa Binder
Tel: (0131 6)51 3969
Email: lisa.binder@ed.ac.uk |
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