General Nursing - 4 Year Nursing Degree Programme (BSc Cur)
Junior Fresh (1st Year)
General Nursing shared with Children’s & General Nursing Integrated only
The aim of this module is to introduce the student to the current theoretical, evidence-based clinical principles and practice of general nursing. The focus is to provide the student with the necessary knowledge in order to inform clinical decision-making and person-centered care planning, and to participate in the delivery of care in the acute care setting.
General Nursing shared with Children’s & General Nursing Integrated only
The aim of the module is to explore the evidence based principles that inform the role and practice of general nursing when caring for patients in healthcare settings across the lifespan.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to introduce the principles of science underpinning the understanding of the human body, and explain the anatomy and physiology of the systems of the body to provide a basis for understanding altered function and healthcare practice.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to discuss the roles of the nurse/midwife in health promotion and maintaining a safe therapeutic environment and to introduce the nurse/midwife to the core clinical skills required to practice safely in the clinical environment.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to facilitate an understanding of the social sciences so as to underpin a competent knowledge base for nursing, midwifery and healthcare practice.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to introduce the student to the role of the nurse/midwife by exploring core concepts underlying nursing/midwifery practice, with particular reference to law, ethics, professional practice, communication, values and attitudes and lifelong learning.
Senior Fresh (2nd Year)
General Nursing shared with Children’s & General Nursing Integrated only
The aim of this module is to apply the principles of general medical, surgical and specialist nursing relevant to the diagnosis, intervention and management of acute and chronic illness.
General Nursing shared with Children’s & General Nursing Integrated only
The aim of this module is to enable the student to demonstrate knowledge of the care and management of adults with altered health (cardiovascular, respiratory, gastrointestinal, haematology, cancer care and neurology) and apply that knowledge through skills of assessment and care planning.
The aim of this module is to provide students with the opportunity to continue to develop their core nursing practice skills and knowledge and to develop the necessary knowledge and skills. This module builds on the learning in practice that has taken place in year one. In year two students are expected to develop their core nursing practice skills and knowledge. Students are expected to rationalise practice, display an understanding of theory underpinning practice as well as begin to appraise their practice in a critical manner. They are expected to display the ability to access salient research and evidence that support practices, procedures, policies and experiences.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to explore contemporary theoretical, legal, and ethical perspectives that inform the professional practice of nursing and midwifery in the provision of quality care for diverse populations in healthcare across the lifespan.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to enable students to acquire knowledge necessary to underpin the delivery of nursing and midwifery care in practice.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
Elective Modules
Global Health Engagement
This module will provide nursing and midwifery students with the opportunity to develop the Trinity Graduate Attributes through undertaking a global theoretical or volunteering (self-funded) experience, within the context of their Profession. The module is designed for students who are interested in exploring different cultures and gaining a global healthcare perspective. The module is self-funded.
Perspectives on Deafness
This module introduces students to the range of ways in which deafness and Deaf people are categorised – by medical personnel, by hearing people, and by the Deaf community.
Statistics for Healthcare Professionals
The World Health Organisation, the United Nations, the Department of Health and Children and all major international and national organisations have recognised the need for healthcare professions to base treatments, intervention, policy and planning on sound evidence. Part of this evidence is derived from the analysis and compilation of appropriate statistics. In today’s ever changing professional environment it is essential that healthcare professionals are comfortable working with data and deriving and interpreting basic statistics. This module aims to stimulate your interest in, and knowledge and appreciation of healthcare statistics. It will provide you with some key transferable skills that will be useful in all professions. The emphasis in the course will be on applying the techniques to healthcare data and on understanding and interpreting results in real life data sets.
Introduction to Race and Ethnicity
This module introduces participants to the concepts of ‘race’ and ‘ethnicity’ and national identity/citizenship locating ‘race’ within social, economic and political relations and situating ‘race’ and racism in relation to other divisions such as class, religion and gender. Issues specific to Irish society will include the Irish Traveller community and the links between racialisation and the asylum/migration processes. Specifically the course addresses issues of race and ethnicity as they relate to nursing practice and the Irish health profession.
Contribution to Society
The overall aim of this module is to provide students with an opportunity to actively contribute to society in a voluntary capacity in an area that is not directly related to nursing practice. Students will plan the type of placement, its location and the key skills and activities they will focus on achieving during their chosen placement. Organising and achieving the aims of this placement is expected to encourage students to develop and control an aspect of their education they feel contributes to their personal and professional development.
Junior Sophister (3rd Year)
General Nursing shared with Children’s & General Nursing Integrated only
The aim of this module is to enable the student to demonstrate knowledge and application of the care and management of adults with altered health in renal, urinary, reproductive, breast, musculoskeletal, dermatological and special senses function, using a problem based approach. This module will expand on the knowledge and skills developed in years 1 and 2 with a focus on the provision of safe, evidence-based nursing care.
General Nursing shared with Children’s & General Nursing Integrated only
This module will expand on the knowledge and skills developed in year 1 and 2 with a focus on the provision of safe, evidence-based nursing care for adults experiencing critical and/or deteriorating illness. Using a problem-based approach, students will explore the pathophysiology, recognition and collaborative management of conditions related to critical and/or deteriorating illness.
General Nursing students only
This module builds on the learning in practice that has taken place in years one and two of the programme. In year three nursing students are expected to develop their core practice skills and knowledge. They are expected to rationalise practice, display an understanding of theory underpinning practice as well as begin to appraise their practice in a critical manner. Students are expected to display the ability to access salient research and evidence that support practices, procedures, policies and experiences. Exposure to pathophysiological conditions will begin the process of questioning practices and skills as well as reasoning and confirming physiological progression and disease prevention. While under the supervision of a registered nurse, students are encouraged to practice in a more autonomous manner, demonstrating the ability to plan, implement and critically evaluate care.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to build on students’ prior knowledge and experience to improve their understanding and awareness of key professional concepts of self-awareness, clinical Judgement, evidence based practice; value based professional practice, decision making, team work and nursing/midwifery management.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
Elective Modules
Patient Safety & Human Factors in Healthcare
This module aims to provide students with an understanding of the concept of patient safety, human factors and how human factors can impact on healthcare environments.
An Appreciation of Contemporary Poetry in English (Walcott, Heaney, Montague, Murray)
This module offers an introduction to the four poets and an overview of the significance of their work. It will provide students with opportunities to enhance key transferable skills that will be useful in all walks of life after college, such as understanding social, cultural and historical diversity.
Contribution to Society
The overall aim of this module is to provide students with an opportunity to actively contribute to society in a voluntary capacity in an area that is not directly related to nursing practice.
Digital Healthcare
The aim of this module is to introduce students to best practices in the development and application of digital health (and associated assistive technologies) to chronic disease management and care, including behaviour change and self-management. Areas covered include: An introduction to the digital health; Exploring the digital health technology landscape; Understanding the role and use of healthcare data; Design thinking and digital health; Using digital health technologies for home-based chronic disease self-management; Patient engagement and behavioural change with digital health technologies; Ethics and digital health; Understanding digital integrated care; The future of digital health (e.g. artificial intelligence, transferring and scaling digital health technologies).
Nutrition and Wellness
The Nutrition and Wellness module introduces students to the role that food and nutrition play in health and disease. Students will study a variety of diverse nutrition related topics from both a national and international perspective and consider nutrition across the lifespan.
Understanding Drug and Alcohol Addiction
The aim of this module is to provide an overview of the historical development of drug use in society and approaches to addiction treatment, from detoxification to harm reduction and addiction recovery. The module covers the whole lifespan, from young to older people. You will discover how to safeguard the health and wellbeing of people using substances and explore the role of family members.
Global Health Engagement
This module will provide nursing and midwifery students with the opportunity to develop the Trinity Graduate Attributes through undertaking a global theoretical or volunteering (self-funded) experience, within the context of their Profession. The module is designed for students who are interested in exploring different cultures and gaining a global healthcare perspective. The module is self-funded.
Senior Sophister (4th Year)
General Nursing students only
This module has two placements. The first placement allows students complete their learning at supervised level in preparation for the independent level of practice required during the second Internship.
In Internship, students engage in supervised practice as employees of the health service. Students begin to engage in independent supervised practice as nursing and multidisciplinary team members. The practice exposure and experiences that students receive engenders in them a level of confidence and competence which will serve to consolidate previous learning and facilitate the development of reasoned decision-making skills and practice in a safe supervised environment.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to help students to apply current research evidence to enhance clinical practice and equip them with the necessary knowledge and skills to complete a capstone project relevant to their practice.
Shared with all Nursing and Midwifery students
The aim of this module is to consolidate and further develop nursing and midwifery students’ prior theoretical and clinical learning in preparation for post-registration clinical and professional practice.