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Sabina Gerrard - OK, so we are very experienced at delivering nursing programs at the University. I've been here nearly two decades. The nursing department's been here much longer than that. I would like to say we're a very friendly bunch. We're very welcoming.
And I would say why now? All of you that are applying will be registered nurses. That is one of the entry requirements, is that you are a registered nurse. And it's a good point for most of you that are considering the MSC, will be thinking of future career progression, how you want to develop yourselves. Some of you will be thinking about doing the MSC for promotion or progression in the working environment. Some of you may be doing it because you want to perhaps move on and do a doctorate in the future or more research in the future. Some of you will be doing it for personal learning, and that's absolutely fine.
Why now? Why not? It's your career. Now is a better time as any to start and choose your own direction in terms of your nursing career.
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- We get so many inquiries from so many different backgrounds of nursing. Some of them can be really niche, some of them are quite broad. So I guess if your idea-- who is this course really sort of aimed at?
- Yeah. So some of you may have been nursing a long time, some degrees previously. May have been, like myself, a diploma nurse. Some of you may have been previous project 2000 nurses, if you're based here in the UK. Those of you that are based abroad, you may have completed your bachelors in nursing some time ago and may be wondering, well, what do I do now? And you may have been in your roles for some time and are wanting something different, wanting some skills in terms of developing and furthering yourselves. So the course is aimed at you
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Nurses are still dealing with the effects of the pandemic that's hit us all globally. So that is an important topic, and it has changed how we nurse. It has changed staff availability. It has changed the nursing workplace it has changed health care organizations and services and resources may be scarce we all tuned in and listened to what's been going on and what was happening during the pandemic I'm sure all of you at that point were reading or watching the television, and we were in touch, because we were all worried and thinking how is this going to affect us both personally, but also as health care professionals, as nurses-- how it's going to affect us in the workplace.
We were all scared. We were all thinking ahead. Can we nurse? Can we meet the requirements of our patients? And that's what's important.
And that has changed things in practice for us. A lot has been learnt, and there are some things we hope we never have to go back to. But there have been a lot of lessons learned. And the course can help you understand why decisions were made, especially with the organization and leadership module.
You'll be taught about organizational structures. You'll learn about organizational leadership. You will need to, obviously, read around these topics as well, but we'll direct you to your reading. And you'll find when you're on the modules that we will direct you to reading, but then it is your choice how much further you take that reading. There are no limits here. You can continue reading the learning beyond what we introduced you to.
So in terms of organizational management, it can help. There will be lots of things that you're left with in your nursing environments that you think, like I mentioned earlier, we could do this better. Or another area in the place that you live, in the country that you live, or somewhere else in the world is doing something, gets introduced something. Why are we not doing that? How can we do that? And then you could consider and look at could this be implemented? Could it be introduced in our area of work in our own nursing environment?
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