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Module overview - Introduction, aims and summary of content

Welcome to the Developing Graduate and Transferable Skills module. This module is an essential pre-requisite for entry to the PG Dip Nursing course at the University of West London and will provide you with opportunity to build and develop upon your previous learning experiences. The PG Dip Nursing course will prepare you to register with the NMC as registered Adult, Mental health or Learning Disabilities Nurse and to obtain a post-graduate diploma qualification in 2 years. The course recognises that as a graduate you will bring with you a range of attributes; these include not only expertise in your subject, but also the ability to manage your own learning, including making use of sources of evidence to make judgments, which is central to 21st century nursing.

As a graduate you will have research activity proficiency and an ability to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions to a range of audiences, all these attributes make you ideally suited to undertaking an exciting but challenging pre-registration nursing course.

This module has been designed to enable you to transfer your previous learning and integrate this will the specific knowledge and skills of nursing. This portfolio and particularly the extended CV will allow you the opportunity to evidence how the graduate skills you have already developed are transferable to healthcare.

We hope that this module will help you to identify, consider, and reflect upon your previous learning in the context of professional development and the enhancement of your lifelong learning skills. These learning skills are transferable and will provide you with not only a foundation for your pre-registration nursing course but beyond this into post registration continuing professional development.

Learning outcomes to be assessed - At the end of this module learners will be able to:

1. Critically reflects on appropriate, sensitive, compassionate and effective interpersonal and communication skills with a variety of people and settings.

2. Critically analyses the role of lifelong learning and personal development as an essential precursor to developing honesty, integrity and competent professional practice.

3. Critically evaluate and reflects on own ability to demonstrate a professional image in behaviour and appearance.

4. Critically evaluate previous learning experiences which have sought to provide evidence-based solutions to problems or questions.

5. Construct a developmental plan to address identified learning needs, reflecting on limitations of own knowledge.

Attachment:- Assignment File.rar