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Academic Skills for Nurses

This course covers the academic skills you will need for your nursing course. They have been put here all together to allow you to review and revise as you go. As a mastery of academic skills underpin your success at university and in clinical practice you are encouraged to regularly engage with their development. It may help to do a little often rather than trying to do everything at once.

This page has links and resources to support student nurses and nursing associates. Here you will find content to support you in the development of your: time management, understanding your assignments, academic writing, critical thinking, and use of evidence in writing.

This page is supported by taught sessions which are based around active blended learning, you will get the most benefit from them by attending the sessions and engaging in the activities.  In order to get the most from the course it is recommended that you engage with both the independent study resources and the group sessions.  Independent study resources support the sessions with activities for you to do before and after the sessions and are part of your ongoing development.

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