This module will focus on role of a nursing administrator, principles of general management, hospital administration and nursing administration, principles of administration and their application by the different level of nurse managers, nursing services of the unit/ward, principles of supervision including philosophy, purpose, principles and methods of supervising plans, clinical supervision of students, and responsibilities of the head nurse in the clinical settings, role of a nurse manager in clinical teaching in nursing and evaluation of the student nurses.
Professional Development in Nursing (Nursing Ethics, Trends and Issues and Legal Aspects in Nursing)
This module includes nursing ethics, trends and issues in nursing and legal aspect in nursing. This is designed to take the student from the position of being a new learner within higher education through consideration of him / herself within the context of the chosen profession and within the context of health system in Sri Lanka.
Students are required to complete the research project they obtained ethical clearance and write a dissertation in order to meet the program’s research requirement as a criterion to be eligible for graduation. The project is expected to address a problem relevant to nursing. Within this part of the research project, the student will engage in conducting the research including data collection, analysis and writing up dissertation which will involve the same level challenge and high standard as a thesis but will be approximately half the scale (40,000 words maximum). It should represent a contribution to knowledge, showing evidence of originality, critical insight and the capacity to carry out independent research. It will involve the introduction and evaluation of an innovative intervention in an area of clinical or nurse education practice.
Clinical Placement- Midwifery Nursing (only for female students),Psychiatric Nursing, Trauma and Emergency care Nursing, Cardiothoracic Nursing, Cardiology Nursing, Paediatric critical care Nursing, Renal Nursing , Theatre Nursing , Oncology Nursing , Neurology Nursing ,Intensive Care Nursing, Gerontological Nursing