Introducing professional practice and knowledge
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This course is the first of three practice-based modules running through the Pre-registration Nursing Programme. It is common to all branches of the Programme. Applying your study to your specific practice settings, you will work towards professional learning outcomes. The course begins to establish areas of knowledge and competence in nursing, and addresses professional-identity formation. You will study a variety of material from different sources, make links between practice and theory in your own working lives, and develop accounts of how practice and theory fit together in your work.
Fees 2012
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Course facts
An undergraduate course in Health and Social Care.
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| Course code | KYN107 |
| Credits | 60 |
| OU Level | 1 |
| SCQF level | 7 |
| FHEQ level | 4 |
| Course work includes: |
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| 4 Tutor-marked assignments (TMAs) |
| 3 Interactive computer-marked assignments (iCMAs) |
| End-of-module assessment |
| No residential school |
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| This course is expected to start for the last time in September 2011. | |||
What you will study
This course and its sibling KYN101 make up the Common Foundation Programme (CFP) of the Nursing Programme curriculum, providing a broad foundation for your development as a practitioner and leading you towards becoming a registered nurse. KYN107 is about what you need to learn to become a ‘knowledgeable doer’ and a confident learner. The course begins to prepare you to be confident and competent in your continuing professional development (CPD) activities and lifelong learning throughout your nursing career.
KYN107 is based on the outcomes specified in the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) four domains: Professional and Ethical Practice; Care Delivery; Care Management; and Personal and Professional Development.
KYN107 helps you develop the understanding you need to practise in an anti-discriminatory way; to work in interprofessional situations; and to approach diversity and change with effective, educated responses. KYN107 adopts a questioning, investigative approach that draws appropriately on available evidence and makes use of case studies that incorporate an interprofessional and interdisciplinary context.
The concern for professional practice is as important educationally as academic study and is supported in study materials by an emphasis on up-to-date professional, ethical and organisational issues. These different issues relate to the accountability upon which such work depends. Practitioners operate with values of equity, justice, empowerment and respect for others. Professional knowledge and boundaries. are constantly changing; understanding what it is to be a professional is part of being a registered practitioner. You need to learn how to do this first in the Common Foundation Programme (CFP) and then develop these skills further in the branch programmes. Some of this learning will be in the form of 100 days’ learning in practice where you gain experience of the client groups such as adult, child, mental health, and learning disabilities. Each client group must be mapped against at least one type of care such as primary/continuing care, acute patient care, or continuing care and rehabilitation services for people with complex and specialist needs.
Vocational relevance
This course is the first of three practice modules of the Diploma of Higher Education (in either Adult Nursing or Mental Health Nursing). The Pre-registration Nursing Programme, to which KYN107 contributes, has been approved for presentation in England, Jersey, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
Entry
Entry to KYN107 is open only to students studying on the Pre-registration Nursing Programme, who are sponsored by their employer and registered as part of a group.
Students must meet the nursing regulatory body’s minimum entry requirements for pre-registration nursing programmes, which are: good health; a good character; and literacy and numeracy. Occupational health screening and criminal record checks will be undertaken for each student prior to entry to the programme.
If you have any doubt about the suitability of the course, please contact our Student Registration & Enquiry Service.
This course is offered only as part of the Pre-Registration Nursing Programme and, as such, is only open to students sponsored by their employers. Therefore, no individual course fee applies.
Preparatory work
You will receive guidance of how to get started online in your first course mailing. This will provide you with information on using your computer for OU study and working with the Computing Guide. For example, it explains how to access and use your website and online discussion forums. If you have time before the course starts, you can work through this and explore all the online services available to you.
If you have a disability or additional requirement
You must be deemed fit for undertaking a programme of nurse education. Occupational health screening will be done to determine your level of fitness to study and participate in KYN107 and ultimately the pre-registration nursing programme. This is a pre-requisite for entry to the Programme. Written transcripts of any audio components and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) versions of printed material are available. Some Adobe PDF components may not be available or fully accessible using a screen reader. Other alternative formats of the study materials may be available in the future. Our Services for disabled students website has the latest information about availability.
If you are a new student, or new to courses using a computer or the internet, you will need to inform us of your particular needs as soon as possible, as some of our support services may take several weeks to arrange. Details of how to do this and our range of support services are described in our publication Meeting Your Needs.
You can also find information about accessible study materials, financial support and the Disabled Students' Allowance, equipment and other services, on our Services for disabled students website. It also includes our contact details for advice and support both before you register and while you are studying.
Study materials
What's included
Four learning guides; audio CDs; a DVD and resources taken from existing nursing text books and other printed materials. You will have access to a website through which teaching and library resources are available. Electronic versions of most of the printed study materials are provided on the website.
You will need
A DVD player and a CD player.
The audio-visual components of this course are delivered on a DVD that will play on a standard DVD player and television. If you want to view this on a computer, it will need a DVD-ROM drive and software for viewing DVDs.
Computing requirements
This course includes online computer activities – you can access these using a web browser that can play Flash and Shockwave.
You will need internet access and a computer. If you have purchased a new computer since 2005 it should meet your course computing requirements. Check our Technical Requirements section if your computer is older than this or is otherwise unusual.
Teaching and assessment
Support from your tutor
For this course (and indeed all the courses in the programme) you are allocated a tutor who will help you with the study material and mark and comment on your written work, and whom you can ask for advice and guidance. Part of your tuition is delivered online so some of the contact with your tutor will be through email and online discussion forums, although phone communication may also be used. If you are new to the OU, you will find that your tutor is particularly concerned to help you with your study methods. Your tutor will also organise and run a series of face-to-face tutorials (there are nine tutorial days on this course) and these are obligatory. At these you will undertake practical work, but also have a chance to debate some of the issues that crop up in your studies. You will also have an opportunity to discuss, both with your tutor and with fellow students, any issues and concerns that you have.
If you encounter difficulties, either with your understanding of ideas and concepts from the course or with your study skills, your tutor or a specialist tutor (for example in supporting students with dyslexia) can help. If you do need extra support or arrangements to accommodate any special needs, you can access the services provided by your regional or national centre. These cover preparation and induction, learning skills support (including examination preparation), services to students with special needs, and educational and careers advice and guidance.
However, your course work is not the only area where you receive support. You develop practice skills at the same time as theoretical knowledge in order to foster the integration of theory and practice, and you have a mentor during your practice experiences who supports, supervises and assesses your clinical skills and practice. Evidence of this assessment is recorded in your portfolio.
Another key person who supports you throughout your work on the programme is your programme tutor. This person is a knowledgeable practitioner who has an overview of your progress through the programme and who is able to see you holistically (in much the same way as the programme encourages you to see others holistically). Your programme tutor comes to see you and your mentor at various times in your practice experience and works with both of you to examine how you are getting on and adds further verification to your portfolio.
Contact our Student Registration & Enquiry Service if you want to know more about study with The Open University before you register.
Assessment
The assessment details for this course can be found in the facts box above.
You will be expected to submit your tutor-marked assignments (TMAs) online through the eTMA system unless there are some difficulties which prevent you from doing so. In these circumstances, you must negotiate with your tutor to get their agreement to submit your assignment on paper.
The end-of-module assessment is a project and portfolio. Assessment is an essential part of the teaching, so you are expected to complete it all.
Professional recognition
This is one of a set of courses that together constitute an approved programme that leads to the professional qualification of Registered Nurse (Part 1: NMC). This course will be mapped against the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework.
Students also studied
Students who studied this course also studied at some time:
Future availability
The details given here are for the course that starts in September 2011 when it will be available for the last time. It will be replaced by Enhancing your healthcare practice (K117).
Fees 2012
See fees and funding options for study from September 2012.
Course facts
An undergraduate course in Health and Social Care.
| About this course: | |
|---|---|
| Course code | KYN107 |
| Credits | 60 |
| OU Level | 1 |
| SCQF level | 7 |
| FHEQ level | 4 |
| Course work includes: |
|---|
| 4 Tutor-marked assignments (TMAs) |
| 3 Interactive computer-marked assignments (iCMAs) |
| End-of-module assessment |
| No residential school |
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