VC visits Health Sciences
Posted on 24 July 2015
Claudia Tomei and Jemma Redfern, students on the MNursing programme, discussed the dissertations they undertake as part of their course in which they identify an area of clinical practice that needs to be changed in order to improve the patient experience. During their course they are required to implement changes to practice and critically reflect on the process in line with the NHS Service Improvement methodology. They can then use this experience in employment interviews, demonstrating their movement as a student from practitioner to leader in the 4th year of the MNursing programme.
Professor Lamberts was also given a demonstration of Pebble Pad, an e-portfolio currently used by students on the BSc Nursing and MNursing programmes which provides them with a space to record practice experiences, reflections and achievements. Students Sorrel Needle and Abi Hiester, from the BSc Nursing course, joined Academic Lead for the E-portfolio Fiona Powling, in talking about Pebble Pad and the way in which it provides evidence of the student journey through the undergraduate programme and can be shown to prospective employers as evidence of practice experiences and the specific interests developed as they progress through their programmes.
Employability from a BA midwifery perspective was also covered during the visit by BA Midwifery student Rhiannon Fairs.
Finally, the afternoon was concluded with a demonstration by Professor Eve Roman of the work carried out by Health Sciences’ Epidemiology and Cancer Statistics Research Group, a multidisciplinary research unit with established strengths in population-based epidemiology. Much of ECSG’s research is predicated on the Haematological Malignancy Research Network (www.hmrn.org); a unique collaboration between University researchers, NHS clinicians, and patients/carers.