Nursing Associate FdSc

• Overview

  Nursing Associates work with Registered Nurses to care for patient and service users of different ages and in a range of settings. Nursing Associates are members of the nursing team and are accountable for their own practice.  This full time 2 year FdSc will prepare you to be a highly skilled autonomous and reflective practitioners who is able to deliver high quality, compassionate, professional and safe care. The programme is structured between theory and clinical placement. Successful completion of the programme will lead to registration with the NMC as a Nursing Associate.

  Course

  Highlights

  • Leads to registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Registered Nursing Associate.
  • Hyper-real simulation mannequins and virtual reality to recreate clinical environments.
  • Access to welling activities to support academic, professional and emotional development.

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• Course Details

  Our aim is to help you to develop into a safe and effective nursing associate who is caring and compassionate and able to deliver high quality care to people of all ages and in a range of settings.  The programme is a 50/50 split of theory and practice to enable you to develop your knowledge and apply this in clinical practice.  You will have a range of practice placements allowing you to develop your competence in caring for people of different ages and in different settings.

  By studying this FdSc you will:

  • Learn to work in teams
  • Develop your professional self
  • Develop excellence in caring for people
  • Work in partnership with other members of the healthcare team
  • Develop competence in evidence-based care

  For further information about the course please contact Ruth Smith, Senior Nursing Lecturer at Ruth.Smith@northampton.ac.uk.

  Learning and Assessment

  You will be taught by high quality and experienced lecturers who will share their knowledge and passion of nursing with you.  They will also enable you to develop your study skills.  You will have a range of learning activities that will vary from face to face sessions, tutorials, online blended learning, simulation and virtual reality in our state of the art simulation suit and placement learning. You will also be able to access our wellbeing activities that will range from study skills, sports and mindfulness sessions.

  Assessment

  Assessment on this programme is by a variety of methods including written assignments, presentations, scenario assessments and assessment in clinical practice.

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  Additional

  Information

  Values Based Recruitment

  Values Based Recruitment is an approach with attracts and selects students on the basis that their individual values and behaviours align with the NHS constitution.  The purpose of this is to ensure that the future and current workforce is selected with the right values and skills to support the delivery of excellent patient care. Through application and interview applicants are selected based on their ability to show they have the values of the 6Cs:

  • Care
  • Compassion
  • Competence
  • Courage
  • Commitment
  • Communication

• Careers and Events
  • Careers

    Nursing Associate FdSc Careers

    On successful completion of this programme you will be eligible to register with the NMC as a Registered Nursing Associate. Graduates may wish to access further study in BSc Nursing.

    
• Requirements

  The following are entry requirements for the Nursing Associate programmes:

  • Level 2 Maths and English Language Grade C or equivalent
  • Level 3 qualification – pass grade
  • IELTS overall score of 7 with at least 6.5 in writing and at least 7 in reading, listening and speaking sections
  • Satisfactory enhanced DBS and occupational health clearance.

  Please note that we may consider other qualifications not listed above on an individual basis, please contact our Admissions team to discuss these in further detail.

  All offers of a place on the programme are subject to:

  • successful Occupational Health Screening,
  • satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) report, and
  • successful interview at the University.

   

  Contacts

  Course Enquiries

  Application status enquiries
  admissions2020@northampton.ac.uk

  Current student enquiries
  SID@northampton.ac.uk

  International student enquiries
  international@northampton.ac.uk

  Applying for 2020
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  Mon – Thu: 9am – 5pm
  Fri: 9am – 4.30pm

  Phone Call

  0300 303 2772

  +44 (0)1604 892134

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• Course Content
  • Stage 1
  • Stage 2

  120 credits of theory modules and 120 credits of practice modules

  120 credits of theory modules and 120 credits of practice modules
• Fees & Funding
  • UK & EU
  • International

  2020/21 Tuition Fees

  Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 20/21 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.

  Full Time: £9,250

  Additional Costs

  • Travel costs to and from placements, and extra costs associated with placements, may be incurred throughout your studies depending on where you are based.
  • optional membership of Union
  • optional two week European placement (flights, accommodation, living expenses)
  • first set of clinical uniform is free but additional uniforms have to be purchased by the student
    black leather shoes, black socks.

  2020/21 Tuition Fees

  Fees quoted relate to study in the Academic Year 20/21 only and may be subject to inflationary increases in future years.

  Full Time: £12,900

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