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Nursing Education 2018 Journal of Nursing and Health Studies
ISSN: 2574-2825 Page 61
April 23-25, 2018
Rome, Italy
27th Edition of World Congress on
Nursing Education &
Research
Led by Manchester Metropolitan University, the project’s aim
was to explore potential change in respect of undergraduate
health and social care education in relation to the changing
landscape of integrated health and social care. In the current
system, undergraduate health and social care education remains
largely uni-professional in emphasis, focus and delivery. Whilst
there is a requirement to include elements of inter-professional
learning within the curriculum, these are largely on the periphery
rather than at the centre.The project was driven by the assumption
that there is currently an absence of the appropriate match-up of
values andbehaviours tomake integratedworking a reality for pre-
registration and newly qualified graduates and that the curriculum
needs to reflect this. Underpinned by “Real World Research”
methodology, stakeholder events, focus groups and interviews
took place within Greater Manchester between November 2016
and July 2017. These included service users, clinicians, students,
educational staff and charitable organisations. Using a thematic
analysis approach to the data, four overarching key themes
were identified, which were the impact of professional identity
gaps in knowledge and education; the need for more exposure
(inter-professional/ cross-disciplinary education and practice);
and differing organisational cultures all of which affect effective
integrated practice. The intended outcome is to adapt the findings
within the undergraduate educational setting in order to produce
employable HSC graduates, who have the skills, resilience and
experience to work in a place based system
Re-imagining undergraduate health and social care education;
findings of a study from greater Manchester, UK
Martin King
Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
J Nurs Health Stud 2018, Volume 3
DOI: 10.21767/2574-2825-C1-003