Subjects · Health and care
✚ Nursing
Theory, placements and proficiencies in one place, ready for NMC registration.
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The toolkit
- Placement hours logAvailable
Practice and theory hours against programme requirements.
- Proficiency trackerAvailable
Map your PAD evidence to the seven NMC platforms and the annexes.
- Reflection builderAvailable
Gibbs, Driscoll, Johns and Rolfe models with prompts.
- Drug calculation practiceAvailable
Tablets, liquids and infusion rates with worked methods.
- Clinical skills logAvailable
Procedures practised and signed off.
Skills you build
- Clinical skills (NMC Annexe B procedures)
- Communication and relationship management (Annexe A)
- Drug calculations
- Reflective practice
- Evidence-based practice
How you are assessed
- Practice Assessment Document (PAD)
- OSCEs
- Drug calculation exams
- Reflective essays
- Care plans
- Exams
Referencing: usually Harvard (APA at some universities). Your department's handbook has the final word.
Learn: 164 teaching pages
Nursing has 164 teaching pages, a full course, topic by topic. Each page has a plain-English explanation with the key idea in a box, figures and worked examples where they help, check-your-understanding questions with model answers, and a reference list.
- Critical appraisal: bias, inference and study quality
- Interpreting quantitative findings and clinical significance
- Qualitative analysis: coding, themes and interpretation
- Trustworthiness, reflexivity and qualitative rigour
- The nursing process and models of care
- The deteriorating patient: ABCDE, NEWS2 and sepsis
- Vital signs and clinical observations
- Personal hygiene and mouth care
- Nutrition and hydration in care
- Elimination and continence care
- Moving and handling and mobility
- Sleep, rest and comfort
and 152 more.
Key terms, theorists and reports
164 teaching pages with figures and self-test questions, plus a starter map of 107 topics in 19 areas, with 73 key terms, 27 researchers and 18 key studies that students can add to their notes in one click. Written for Degree Margins and checked against current sources.
Professional practice, law and ethics
The NMC Code and fitness to practise · Accountability, responsibility and delegation · Consent, capacity and best interests · Safeguarding adults and children · Duty of candour and raising concerns · Revalidation and lifelong learning · Reflective practice and clinical supervision · History of nursing as a profession
Communication and person-centred care
Therapeutic relationships · Person-centred and compassionate care · Communicating with people with additional needs · Breaking bad news and difficult conversations · Structured handover: SBAR · Cultural competence
Public health and health promotion
Determinants of health · Health inequalities · Primary, secondary and tertiary prevention · Health behaviour change · Making Every Contact Count · Screening and immunisation
Anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology
Cells, tissues and homeostasis · Cardiovascular and respiratory systems · Renal function and fluid balance · The nervous and endocrine systems · Immunity, inflammation and infection · Common long-term conditions · The deteriorating patient: shock and sepsis
Pharmacology and medicines management
Pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics · Routes of administration · Drug calculations · Adverse drug reactions and interactions · Controlled drugs · Safe administration and medication errors · Medicines optimisation and concordance
Assessment and care planning
The nursing process · Models of nursing · Holistic assessment · Observations and early warning scores · The ABCDE approach · Risk assessment tools: skin, nutrition and falls · Care plans and documentation
Patient safety, infection prevention and quality
Human factors and error · Incident reporting and learning · Infection prevention and control · Pressure ulcer prevention · Falls prevention · Quality improvement methods
Leadership, teamwork and coordinating care
Leadership styles and theories · Teamwork and multidisciplinary care · Staffing, skill mix and patient outcomes · Discharge planning and integrated care · Managing change · Organisational culture
Fields of practice
Mental health nursing · Learning disability nursing · Children's and young people's nursing · Palliative and end of life care · Pain assessment and management · Living with long-term conditions
Evidence-based practice and research foundations
What evidence-based practice means · Ways of knowing in nursing · The research process · Reading research papers · Research paradigms
Research ethics and governance
Ethical principles in research · Informed consent and capacity in research · Privacy, confidentiality and data protection · HRA approval and research ethics committees
Research questions, literature and theory
Clinical questions and PICO · Research problems, aims and questions · Hypotheses and operational definitions · Literature searching · Reviewing literature · Theoretical and conceptual frameworks
Quantitative designs
Randomised controlled trials · Control, randomisation and blinding · Quasi-experimental designs · Observational designs · Causality, validity and generalisability
Sampling, measurement and data collection
Populations and sampling frames · Sampling methods and sample size · Questionnaires and patient-reported outcomes · Observation, biomarkers and records · Reliability and validity
Qualitative research
Qualitative design logic · Phenomenology · Grounded theory · Ethnography, case study and narrative · Interviews, focus groups and fieldwork · Qualitative sampling
Mixed methods and applied designs
Mixed methods designs · Quality improvement, service evaluation and research · Applied designs: evaluation, economic and implementation studies
Statistics and interpreting findings
Levels of measurement and descriptive statistics · Risk and association · Sampling distributions and confidence intervals · Hypothesis testing and p values · Common statistical tests · Regression and choosing a test
Critical appraisal and analysis
Clinical significance · Critical appraisal and bias · Qualitative analysis · Trustworthiness and reflexivity
Evidence synthesis and implementation
Systematic reviews · Meta-analysis and GRADE · Qualitative evidence synthesis · Putting evidence into practice
Accreditation and professional routes
- Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC): Future Nurse standards of proficiency (seven platforms and two annexes); programmes combine at least 2,300 theory and 2,300 practice hours
Our teaching pages and tools are a study guide to support your degree, not a replacement for your lectures, seminars, reading or university materials. We take great care over accuracy, but where anything differs from what your course teaches, follow your course.