Overview

Key to the new Professional Nurse Advocate (PNA) module is the focus on supervision and leadership. The leadership elements of the role are seen as being important for the support of staff health and well-being and for the promotion of individual, professional and team resilience. The PNA module will enable the student to explore and expand their own supervisory and leadership skills and to extend their reach further through application of module learning in practice. The PNA module will support the student to facilitate clinical team ability to provide quality improvement and service enhancement initiatives.

Please note this programme is available for Home students only who are employed in an NHS setting and are supported by their employer. This is an NHS-commissioned programme with no student tuition fees.

Module aims

• To equip nurses with the knowledge and skills to facilitate restorative clinical supervision to colleagues and teams within nursing services.
• To intrinsically link restorative clinical supervision to quality improvement approaches in clinical practice

Entry requirements

• This programme is available for Home students only who are employed in an NHS setting and are supported by their employer. 
  
• All applicants will hold a current registration with the NMC.
• Candidates will normally have either a degree or an equivalent professional qualification such as a postgraduate diploma, and appropriate clinical experience.
• Candidates must work within an NHS organisational setting with access to support and supervision from an appropriate clinical lead person.

Module content

• Professional Nurse Advocate Role
• Critical Thinking
• AEQIP Model
• Restorative Clinical Supervision
• Ethical Issues
• Resilience
• Self-awareness
• Assertiveness
• Compassionate Leadership
• Quality Improvement
• Advocacy
• Equality, Diversity and Inclusion
• Health and Wellbeing

Teaching and assessment

The principal learning and teaching methods used in the module may include:

• Lectures, seminars and workshops: The core of each module delivery mode is a series of tutor-led or group-led seminars or workshops which are all delivered online using platforms such as Microsoft Teams
• Web-based learning using the Keele Learning Environment (KLE), Blackboard
• Group work and peer support. All modules use focused group work and class discussion facilitated online using platforms such as Microsoft Teams
• Directed independent study. Most of the study hours for each module comprise independent learning by expecting participants to add depth and breadth to their knowledge of topics, to practice skills and to reflect on critical incidents and their practice