You’ll gain an understanding of how health visitors and school nurses work in partnership with people to prevent ill health, protect health and promote wellbeing. You’ll examine the evidence base that allows for 44 improvement and embedded sustainable changes to the overall health and wellbeing of people at home, within communities, and in schools. Health visitors and school nurses play a key role in the safeguarding of those people who are most vulnerable in society, and you’ll learn about the ambitions for the public health of the communities you’ll serve once qualified. You’ll discover how to actively pursue sustainable development goals that promote everyone’s right to a healthy life and be fully equipped with the knowledge and skills to support breastfeeding and formula feeding, manage breastfeeding challenges and promote close and loving relationships. You’ll develop your skills in building trusting relationships with children, carers, and families, to positively influence their future health outcomes, and identifying their health needs and strengths. We’ll explore the social determinates of health to help you develop an appreciation of the theory of providing a universal service that ensures support for children and families that is personalised, effective, timely and proportionate and identify that the needs and the welfare of the child are, always, central to practice. We’ll support you gain an understanding of the research base and be able to critique published research, and the necessary skills required to demonstrate culturally sensitive professional autonomy, and to adapt and tailor responses to the health and wellbeing needs of individuals, families, and communities within diverse and changing contexts. Health visitors and school nurses are advocates for fairness, equity, and social justice and, through this module, we’ll explore the skills necessary to challenge discriminatory practices and behaviours, and how to lead services that are person-centred, and evidence driven, with creativity and resourcefulness, and evaluate the impact of their interventions to continuously improve the quality of care and outcomes for children and families. You’ll learn via online lectures, online group work, alongside in person clinical skills workshops, supported by practising clinicians and academics and our online learning environment. You’ll be offered formative assessment to help you prepare for your summative assessment.
View the full module definitionTrauma is a public health problem. Applying a Trauma Informed Approach (TIP) benefits trauma survivors and practitioners and seeks to prevent re-traumatisation. We’ll provide you with an interagency ‘think family’ approach to develop your skills to deliver compassionate, community interventions. You’ll learn how the six key principles of trauma-informed care can be embedded into local and national services and systems. Explore neurobiological development, childhood trauma, attachment, stress, emotional regulation, and resilience. Learn how domestic abuse, substance misuse, family mental ill health and extra familial harm can impact long-term life outcomes. You’ll develop your expert knowledge in child protection, advanced communication skills, and an ability to cope with a high emotional workload, together with an understanding of the implications for service delivery, practitioner, and student supervision. Examine how safeguarding systems function and how national policy underpins local area safeguarding partnerships. Explore the role and responsibilities of health and social care services and review the framework for identifying risk and resilience factors. Interventions including parental infant support, therapeutic services, parenting programmes, solution-focused, and resilient compassionate practices will also be addressed. You’ll consider the importance of self-awareness, reflection, and supervision in developing professional curiosity and skills in facilitating courageous conversations, applying this to specialist community public health nursing practice (SCPHN). You’ll learn via online lectures, online group work, alongside in person clinical skills workshops, supported by practising clinicians and academics and our online learning environment. You’ll be offered formative assessment, via canvas, to help you prepare for your summative assessment.
View the full module definitionThis is a practice-based module that will assess you against the NMC standards of proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) (2022) in the field of health visiting, to evidence safe and effective health visiting practice. You’ll gain the specialist knowledge, skills and attributes required by nurses working in the community, including autonomous decision making and managing greater clinical complexity and risk. These skills will be applied to families you will care for, caseloads you will manage, and within services that may be integrated with other agencies, professionals, or disciplines. To complete this practice element, you’ll be working within a health visiting team for the duration of the course and will be assessed through the completion of a Practice Assessment Document, OSCE and written reflections. Your Practice Assessment Document details the core and field specific standards of proficiency for health visiting, and you’ll be supported by a practice supervisor(s), practice assessor, and an academic assessor (NMC, 2022). You’ll have regular supervision meetings throughout the year in practice and will undertake both a formative and summative assessment during each learning period, of which there are 3. You will also attend a group supervision facilitated by an academic assessor during each learning periods which will allow you to discuss and reflect upon your practice learning experiences with your peers, and a session which guides you through the practice assessment document, so you are clear on what you need to achieve.
View the full module definitionThis is a practice-based module that will assess you against the require standards of proficiency as detailed by the NMC standards of proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) (2022), to evidence safe and effective School Nursing practice. You’ll gain the specialist knowledge, skills and attributes required by nurses working in the community, including autonomous decision making and managing greater clinical complexity and risk. These skills will be applied to people you will care for, caseloads you will manage and within services that may be integrated with other agencies, professionals, or disciplines. To complete the practice element, you’ll be working within a school nursing service for the duration of the course and will be assessed through the completion of a Practice Assessment Document, reflections and Observed Structured clinical assessment (OSCE). Your Practice Assessment Document details the core and field specific standards of proficiency for school nursing, and you will be supported by a practice supervisor(s), a practice assessor, and an academic assessor. You’ll have regular supervision meetings throughout the year in practice and will undertake both a formative and summative assessment during each learning period, of which there are 3. You will also attend a group supervision facilitated by an academic assessor during each learning period which will allow you to discuss and reflect upon your practice learning experiences with your peers, and a session which guides you through the practice assessment document.
View the full module definitionSpecialist Community Public Health Nurses (SCPHN’s) are identified as the leaders of the healthy child programme, thus require the necessary leadership skills to ensure safe and effective delivery of care upon qualification. We’ll prepare you to meet the leadership proficiencies as outlined by the NMC (NMC, 2022), to work in a health visiting or school nursing service. We’ll focus specifically to deliver a public health initiative in line with the High Impact Areas specific to your field of practice. The High Impact Areas (PHE, 2021) provide an evidence-based framework for those delivering child public health services from preconception onwards. They cover a wide range of issues, covered by the health visiting and school nursing services, that are difficult to quantify due to the diverse needs of individuals, families, and communities. These high impact areas describe where health visitors and school nurses can have a significant impact on health and wellbeing, improving outcomes for children, young people, families, and communities. This module will ensure that you develop not only understand the public health elements to the SCPHN role, but are equipped to deliver interventions, gaining practice and theoretical experience in developing and leading projects as well as disseminating good practice and prepared to be carry out primary research in your fields of practice. You’ll learn via online lectures, online group work, alongside in person clinical skills workshops, supported by practising clinicians and academics and our online learning environment. You will be offered formative assessment, via canvas, to help you prepare for your summative assessment.
View the full module definitionEntering higher education is exciting; but it can also be a daunting experience. At ARU, we want all our students to make the most of the opportunities higher education provides, reach your potential, become lifelong learners and find fulfilling careers. However, we appreciate that the shift from secondary education, or a return to formal education is, in itself, quite a journey. This module is designed to ease that transition. You'll be enrolled on it as soon as you receive an offer from ARU so you can begin to learn about university life before your course starts. Through Into ARU, you'll explore a virtual land modelled around ARU values: Courage, Innovation, Community, Integrity, Responsibility, and Ambition. This innovative module is designed as a game, where you collect knowledge and complete mini tasks. You'll proceed at your own pace, though we you to have completed your Into ARU exploration by week 6. If for any reason you're unable to complete by that date, we'll signpost to existing services so that we can be confident that you are supported.