This module is designed to enable you to explore your future career and provide an environment where you can begin to focus on the professional values, skills and knowledge needed to succeed in your field.

We will explore the history of your chosen profession, the changing nature of the role, and the social and political context surrounding this. You will have the opportunity to consider the professional codes, values and expectations that relate to your career as well as the various roles you can undertake within your field. 

You will also reflect on your own skill set and consider your personal and professional development needs.

Indicative content:

• How to be a professional practice student: representing your profession 
• Investigate the historic and socio-political context of your chosen profession (Nursing, Midwifery, Education or Social Work)
• The importance of professional values and codes of practice/conduct
• The nature and scope of inter-professional working
• Core roles and responsibilities within your career and inter-professional working
• Theories of professional practice
• Equal opportunities, inclusion, diversity and professional practice
• Interpersonal communication skills; development of self-awareness and of own communication skills.
• Using models of reflection. 
• Safeguarding of children and vulnerable adults 
• Personal and professional development knowledge and skills
• Your profession and the public 
• Learning to use and navigate a range of digital spaces specific to your subject
• Understanding academic conduct and conventions for communicating information

The module will explore how perceptions, personal circumstances and technology can shape our health. You will investigate areas such as technology, health promotion and inequality and how these can impact individual health experiences and outcomes, as well as considering models of health that inform belief systems.

You will also examine the role of biological concepts in the way our bodies’ function. The relationship between diseases and physiological processes within the context of organ systems will be examined.  

Indicative content:

• Defining health in relation to the individual, society and social change
• The importance of the biomedical, social and biopsychosocial models of health 
• Investigate factors that influence health outcomes
• The role and importance of health promotion in society
• Individual health behaviour theories and applications
• The future of health and healthcare 
• The structure of a generalised human cell and organelles
• Cellular transport processes including diffusion and osmosis
• Specialised cells and tissues in the human body
• The role of hormones and enzymes
• Human body systems
• Homeostasis
• The role of genetics in human health and disease
• Micro-organisms as a cause of infectious disease
• The biological basis of routine investigations
• Advancing digital and academic skills introduced during Term 1
• Developing research and information literacy in relation to your subject
• Creating an academic poster on a chosen research paper

This module will explore how psychology and related disciplines can be applied to real world contexts. We will explore the history of psychology and related disciplines. You will explore key perspectives that include; social psychology, biological psychology, humanism and developmental psychology.

You will also investigate the following; mental health, bereavement support, and improving patient outcomes with Psychology. You will consider how this knowledge can support and inform your professional practice. You will also examine notions of wellbeing , stress and resilience to prepare you for professional practice.

Indicative content: 

• The role of social structures and socialisation in society
• The role and historical context of Psychology and related disciplines 
• The social Psychology of human interaction and behaviour
• Development psychology from childhood and through the lifespan
• Brain structure and functions
• Neurodiversity and brain differences - what makes us unique. 
• An introduction to mental health
• Humanism and its importance in professional practice
• Cognitive Psychology and its importance in professional practice  
• Stress, resilience and stress management
• What is wellbeing and how this can be applied to professional practice
• Supporting patient outcomes with Psychology 
• Leadership and motivation in nursing practice