Learning Disabilities Nursing (with foundation year)

You can choose to study this course in Coventry or Scarborough.

Foundation Year
The foundation year course helps you develop the necessary skills for degree-level study. In addition, you will also explore fundamental knowledge in areas such as anatomy, physiology and pathology, professional practice and approaches to health and wellbeing.

Coventry location: The foundation year of this Coventry University degree will be delivered from our CU Coventry campus. Course delivery from year 1 of the degree onwards will be from the Coventry University campus.

Scarborough location: All years will be delivered from the CU Scarborough campus.

Degree
This degree combines theory with practice-based learning to lead you to professional registration and a rewarding career as a learning disabilities nurse.

Learning disabilities nurses provide specialist healthcare and support to people with a significantly reduced ability to understand new or complex information. They work across a range of settings including people’s homes, primary and community settings, schools and specialist services, in-patient hospitals and care homes.

This course aims to equip you to support, empower and safeguard people with learning disabilities. It emphasises the importance of involving individuals, their families and support networks in the holistic assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of care.

• Successful completion of this course makes you eligible to apply for professional registration as a learning disabilities nurse with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) (please see Accreditation section for more information).

• Gain the skills to deliver professional, impactful, evidence-informed care across a range of dynamic and diverse healthcare environments.

• Learn to collaborate and thrive as a learning disabilities nurse across and within multidisciplinary teams to coordinate safe, evidenced-based care delivery.

• Study one academic module at a time, with five weeks of learning followed by one week of assessment per module.

• All eligible learners on this course can apply for a minimum payment from the government of £5,000 per year.

• You can apply for additional payments if you incur childcare costs.

• 50% of your learning will take place in diverse practice-based learning environments where you will apply your theoretical knowledge to the real world.

Why you should study this course
The course is aimed at committed and enthusiastic individuals who embody a compassionate attitude and are eager to acquire the skills to deliver professional, impactful and evidence-informed care.

If you are compassionate, enthusiastic and committed, we can support you in developing the skills to deliver professional, evidence-informed care that truly impacts people’s lives.

Foundation Year

• Supports you to gain the academic skills required for degree-level study.

• Provides a grounding in key areas of anatomy, physiology, health and wellbeing.

Degree

• Our approach supports you to develop a strong sense of professional identity and accountability as a learning disabilities nurse from day one.

• Develop your confidence and skills in preparation to lead, influence and supervise others.

• Delivered by a team that includes highly skilled, knowledgeable, nursing and allied health professionals.

• Develop your digital fluency, curiosity, critical and reflective thinking.

• Access to success coaches, placement supervisors and specialist support for mathematics and academic writing.

Please visit our website for the most up-to-date information.

Foundation Year
The foundation year offers an introduction to your chosen subject and supports you to develop the skills required for degree-level study.

• Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology
• Fundamentals of Pathophysiology and Disease
• Introduction to Professional Practice and Regulatory Standards
• Approaches to Health and Wellbeing for the Health Professional

Degree
Year One

• Becoming a Professional Practitioner
• Evidence: Your Profession in a Global Context
• Nursing Assessment and Care Delivery
• Understanding Influences on Health and Care
• Placement 1: Introductions to Nursing Care
• Placement 2: Delivering Nursing Care

Year Two

• Therapeutic Interventions and Innovations in Learning Disabilities Nursing
• Complex Decision Making Within Learning Disabilities Nursing Environments
• Exploring Knowledge Through Curiosity
• Enhanced Approaches in Delivering Holistic Care
• Placement 3: Delivering Enhanced Nursing Care
• Placement 4: Delivering Complex Holistic Nursing Care

Final year

• Leading for the Future as a Health and Care Professional
• The Evidenced-Based Practitioner: Professional Project
• Complex Care Coordination in LD Nursing
• Preparing for your Career in Nursing
• Placement 5: Coordinating Nursing Care
• Placement 6: Practising Autonomously

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated. Before accepting any offers, please check the website for the most up to date course content.

For further information please check the course page on the Coventry University website

The foundation year will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module and may include:

• case study
• individual presentation
• essay
• numeracy test.

This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module.

Assessment methods may include:
coursework
practice placement
formal examinations
Objective Structured Clinical Examinations
presentations
assessed discussions.

The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Nursing and Midwifery Council

To work as a teacher at a state school in England or Wales, you will need to achieve qualified teacher status (QTS). This is offered on this course for the following level:

• Course does not award QTS