Our professional health and social care programmes support聽students to develop and practice skills without the immediate pressure of being in a practice setting. Service users and carers are involved across programmes to provide realistic simulation or role play activities for students to practice a range of skills and receive immediate feedback from people who are experts by experience.
Examples include:聽
- Assessed role plays in social work courses, where students are required to conduct a mock home visit and break some difficult news to a service user or carer such as them leaving; a service coming to an end; or a care provider changing. At the end of the role play, students have the opportunity to discuss their 鈥榩erformance鈥� with an observer and the service user in order to develop their practice.
- In adult nursing courses, students are required to conduct a mock handover at the bedside of a patient in a simulated hospital ward at the university.