Professional roles, responsibilities and developments
What is a profession – characteristics and critiques
Evidence based practice - an overview and appraisal
Caring using an evidence-based approach and use of contemporary guidance
Professional regulation
Accountability and autonomy
Record keeping
NMC Code
Reflection
Escalating Concerns

What is the law?
How are laws made, and how are they changed?
Working within the boundaries of the law relating to nursing / midwifery practice
Consent and capacity
Data protection
Mental health legislation
Children and the law
Safeguarding (children and adults)
Negligence and wilful neglect
Human rights - and the concept of rights and responsibilities for practice
Care Act (or equivalent)
Any new legal requirements for practice as they arise

Ethical aspects of practice and ethical aspects of behaviour – overview and critiques of ethical theories
What is ethical behaviour?
How do we enhance our ethical behaviour – strategies and tactics for being a more ethical person
Values in care settings

Professional, legal and ethical issues or dilemmas for example abortion, organ donation, assisted suicide, conflicts of interest

Service user / case-based scenario (related to field of practice)

Written assessment applying professional, legal and ethical considerations to a case study.

This assessment must be successfully passed at a minimum of 40% to complete this module.

Formative learning – debate and discussion to explore and share principles and theories from different perspectives.

Clinical practice¿
Online Platform learning
Tutorials¿
Problem-based learning¿¿
Interprofessional learning
Debate
Peer Learning¿¿¿
Flipped Classroom¿¿¿¿¿
Lectures¿¿¿
Directed learning
Assessment Preparation¿¿¿¿
Group work¿
Group tutorials and discussions
Formative advice and feedback

1.Discuss and demonstrate an understanding of what it is to be a potential NMC registrant, showing an awareness of working within the NMC Code, and the values, attitudes and behaviours that are embedded within this.
Knowledge & understanding

2.Demonstrate an understanding and application of working within legal, ethical, and professional requirements of an NMC registrant.
Application
Knowledge & Understanding
3.Demonstrate the transferable skills and ability to think critically, apply knowledge and use evidence and experience to solve problems and make informed decisions.
Problem solving
Communication

Practice Placement Handbook
BFI Workbook
Technology supported learning
Online learning
Blackboard VLE®
eLearning for Health
Library
Policy and Guidance
Service User and Carers

Ariely, D. (2009). Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions. London: Harper Collins Publishers.

Baumeister, R. and Taylor, M. (2013). Willpower: Self-Control, Decision Fatigue, and Energy Depletion. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGZu5Lzgv1A

Blastland, M. and Spiegelhalter, D. (2013). Risk, Chance and Choice - Michael Blastland and David Spiegelhalter. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INw0O5F-yWc

Brazier, M. & Cave, E. (2016). Medicine, patients and the law (Contemporary Issues in Bioethics). (6th Ed). Manchester: University Press.

Dimond, B. (2015). Legal Aspects of Nursing. (7th Ed). Harlow: Pearson.

Fiske, S. (2012). Varieties of (De)Humanizing - Divided by Status & Competition. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f--dDx0q6so

Haidt, J. (2012). The Groupish Gene: Hive psychology and the Origins of Morality and Religion. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQ192d4c4S0
Kahneman, D. (2012). Thinking, Fast and Slow. London: Penguin Group.
Nursing and Midwifery Council. (2018). The Code. Available: https://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/code/read-the-code-online/

Statham, G. (2013). Risk -- the anatomy of chance and uncertainty: Grant Statham at TEDxCanmore. Available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGZu5Lzgv1A

This is an interprofessional module taught across Nursing and Midwifery programmes. You will be introduced to the foundations of professional, legal and ethical considerations in health practice. The teaching and learning are provided from a wide range of academics with expertise in a wide range of areas.
You will have the opportunity to learn collaboratively with adult, mental health, children’s nursing and midwifery students.

Must be enrolled on
Bachelors of Midwifery (Hons)
BSc(Hons) Nursing practice / adult / child / mental health