Study Details: PGDip 2 years full-time
This course, run at our West London campus, is also offered at our Reading site in Berkshire. As you will spend half your course gaining experience on placement, you should choose a course location that you can travel to easily. Please see the course details below for our London placement partners.
This course is approved against the Nursing and Midwifery Council Future Nurse: Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses. These standards set out the knowledge and skills you will learn as the next generation of adult nurses, to enable you to deliver world-class person-centred, evidence-based care.
This course prepares you to care for adults (of all ages), who are recovering from an accident or acute illness, learning to live with a chronic health condition or at the end of their lives. You’ll also learn how to empower people to make a difference to their own physical and mental health.
On successful completion of the course, you’ll be eligible to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as an Adult Nurse.
You need:
If you are successful at interview you will be required to complete a 6000 word portfolio (Recognition of Prior Learning module). You will need to achieve a pass mark of 40% at Level 6, to be offered a place on the course.
Guidance on how to complete this independent study module will be provided by the course leader. Candidates are usually given 4 weeks to complete the module.
For fees and funding options, please visit website to find out more.
The government is currently reviewing the funding arrangements for pre-registration postgraduate students wishing to start a course in September 2018. Further detail will be published in due course but it is unlikely that the previous funding arrangements for tuition paid by the Department of Health, with eligible students able to apply for a bursary, will be available.
After studying to become an adult nurse, you will need to be committed to lifelong learning, ensuring your skills and knowledge remain up to date.
To maintain your registration to practice with the Nursing and Midwifery Council, you’ll need to go through the process of revalidation, every three years. The process is straightforward and will help you to demonstrate safe and effective practise.
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