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Code: B70C / 144B7NN
Attendance: Part-time
Start: January 2024
Fees: £63 per taught credit (UK)
Duration: 18 months (over 3 terms)
Course Leader: Dr Venetia Brown
Study mode: On campus
Location: Hendon campus
Entry Requirements: 300 credits of which 60 must be at Level 6
Placement year: No
School / Department: Nursing

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Why choose Nursing (Professional Practice) (Top-up) BSc Honours at Middlesex?

This course enables current registered nurses to top up their qualification to degree level, opening up a range of new career opportunities.

This 18-month top-up course is designed for qualified nurses who already hold a Dip Advanced, CertHE or DipHE qualification and want to study for an undergraduate degree.

As part of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to study clinical and professional practice-related inquiry methods in order to engage in clinical and practice development.

What you will gain

As well as developing your critical thinking and decision making skills, you will gain the ability to reflect and analyse your own performance.

You will develop research analysis and evaluating skills and focus on the facilitation of learning and communication outcomes for a range of audiences including students, peers and clients.

You will enhance your opportunity for career progression and professional development. Many nursing roles within healthcare require applicants to have an undergraduate degree.

We have over 145 years of experience delivering professional, creative and technical education that prepares students – like you – for success in global careers, so find out more today.

What you will learn

Designed for experienced nurses, this highly flexible course enables you to fit your studies around work commitments

You can tailor this course – which is made up of two 30-credit modules – to your own interests and work commitments. The first module is a professionally relevant work-based or practice-based enquiry module.

The second is a work-based or practice-based project module with a focus on personal and/or organisational professional practice development and change.

You will receive supervision and ongoing support from academic advisors and we encourage students to form peer support networks.

Join us on this course and you'll be able to:

Study two modules relevant to your work. One will be based on practice enquiry, while the other is a work-based project
Develop your critical thinking and decision-making skills, and develop your ability to reflect and analyse your own performance
Be responsible for your own learning and progress
Receive dedicated support throughout your studies and be assigned an academic advisor along with a project supervisor
Expand your career opportunities, be able to take on specialist and leadership roles, or undertake further postgraduate studies.

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Ranked 2nd in London

For Nursing and Midwifery – Guardian University Rankings, 2022

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Excellent employment prospects

90% of our nursing students have been in graduate level employment six months after graduation

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State-of-the-art facilities

At the West Stand, Middlesex has one of the most state-of-the-art simulation wards in the country with our unique access to Virtual Reality/Augmented Reality and industry-leading simulation equipment

About your course

This course offers qualified practising nurses the opportunity to study modules which will enable them to gain an honours degree. You will study two 30 credit modules as part of your degree: a professionally relevant work based/practice based enquiry module and a work based/practice based project module with a focus on personal and/or organisational professional practice development and change.

This module will support you to undertake a real work-based project that is designed to develop or inform areas of your own or your colleague’s professional practice with service users/children, in a healthcare, social care or educational setting. You will plan, carry out and evaluate a project and critically discuss the learning gained, as well as the outcomes of the project for your area of practice. The focus of the project is negotiated and can be related to individual or team practice development and/or wider organisational development aims.

This module is designed to develop practitioner inquiry skills and understanding of inquiry methodologies in order to design a work-based project that has the potential to improve your own and others’ practice for service users. It will explore approaches to practitioner inquiry appropriate for your area of work/ practice and enable reflection upon your position as a practitioner researcher and the potential ethical implications that could arise during the project.

To find out more about this highly regarded course, please download the Nursing (Professional Practice) (Top-up) BSc Honours specification (PDF).

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Teaching

As you will be a professional practitioner with significant prior learning, you will be taught using an adult learning approach. The modules are designed to encourage you to be responsible for your own learning and progress. It is recognised that individuals learn in different ways therefore a range of teaching and learning strategies are used. Pre and post sessional work, group work and presentations also important components of the modules in addition to classroom workshops and lectures.

You will be studying at our north London campus in Hendon and at our West Stand facility at StoneX stadium, Barnet.

There is a free shuttle bus service you can use to get to StoneX park from our Hendon campus.

Timetable

Whether you are studying full or part-time – your course timetable will balance your study commitments on campus with time for work, life commitments and independent study.

We aim to make timetables available to students at least 2 weeks before the start of term. Some weeks are different due to how we schedule classes and arrange on-campus sessions.

Our excellent teaching and support teams will help you develop the skills relevant to your degree from research and practical skills to critical thinking. Our Sheppard Library is open 24 hours a day during term time. And we offer free 24-hour laptop loans with full desktop software, free printing and Wi-Fi to use on or off campus, even over the weekend.

The module assessments aim to encourage reflection, stakeholder engagement, the development of leadership, project management and presentation skills. You will receive ongoing support from the course leader, your module leaders and your project supervisor.

To help you achieve the best results, we will provide regular feedback.

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We offer lots of support to help you while you're studying including financial advice, wellbeing, mental health, and disability support.

Additional needs

We'll support you if you have additional needs such as sensory impairment or dyslexia. And if you want to find out whether Middlesex is the right place for you before you apply, get in touch with our Disability and Dyslexia team.

Wellness

Our specialist teams will support your mental health. We have free individual counselling sessions, workshops, support groups and useful guides.

Work while you study

Our Middlesex Unitemps branch will help you find work that fits around uni and your other commitments. We have hundreds of student jobs on campus that pay the London Living Wage and above. Visit the Middlesex Unitemps page.

Financial support

You can apply for scholarships and bursaries and our MDX Student Starter Kit to help with up to £1,000 of goods, including a new laptop or iPad.

We have also reduced the costs of studying with free laptop loans, free learning resources and discounts to save money on everyday things. Check out our guide to student life on a budget.

Careers

How can the BSc Nursing (Professional Practice) (Top-up) support your career?

This course will enhance your opportunities for career progression or further study, allowing you to pursue careers within healthcare education or research.

Although you will be in current employment, successful completion of the programme may rapidly expand your career opportunities into specialist and leadership roles, and allow you the opportunity to undertake postgraduate studies.

Global network

You’ll study with students from 122 countries who’ll hopefully become part of your global network. And after you graduate, we'll still support you through our alumni network to help you progress in your chosen career.

Entry requirements

At Middlesex, we make fair and aspirational offers because we want you to aim high, and we’ll support you all the way. Together we can achieve great results.

Qualifications

Students admitted to this programme must be a:

United Kingdom Registered Nurse with sufficient credits to meet the entry criteria of 300 credits, of which 60 must be at Level 6. These credits will be pre-accredited onto the degree pathway.
The credits may be either from your initial nursing qualification alone e.g. Diploma Advanced in Nursing (or equivalent) or from a combination of your initial nursing qualification and any CPD modules you have completed (the CPD modules normally must be less than five years old).

Eligibility

UK students are eligible to apply for this course. However, we will not be able to support international students who require a Student route (formerly tier 4) visa.

Academic credit

If you have a qualification such as a Dip HE Nursing, a Dip Advanced Nursing or other pre-registration nursing qualification or have gained credit at another university, we may be able to count this towards your entry requirements. Find out how you can transfer courses.

If you have relevant qualifications or work experience, we may be able to count this towards your entry requirements. Find out more about prior learning accreditation.

Interviews

Entry onto this course does not require an interview. Selection decisions are made on the basis of the quality of the personal statement.

We recommend you have a conversation with the course leader, Dr Venetia Brown, before applying.

Apply for your postgraduate taught course through our Online Applicant Portal.

Create an Applicant Portal account to submit your application directly to us and track its progress. You can also upload your supporting documents, portfolio or show-reel and make subsequent applications.

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Fees and funding

The fees below are for the 2024/25 academic year:

UK students¹

Part-time students: £63 per taught credit

The following study tools are included in your fees:

Free access to the resources, learning materials and software you need to suacceed on your course
Free laptop loans for up to 24 hours
Free printing for academic paperwork
Free online training with LinkedIn Learning.

Fees disclaimers

1. UK fees: The university reserves the right to increase undergraduate tuition fees in line with changes to legislation, regulation and any government guidance or decisions. The tuition fees for part-time UK study are subject to annual review and we reserve the right to increase the fees each academic year by no more than the level of inflation.

2. International fees: Tuition fees are subject to annual review and we reserve the right to increase the fees each academic year by no more than the level of inflation.

Any annual increase in tuition fees as provided for above will be notified to students at the earliest opportunity in advance of the academic year to which any applicable inflationary rise may apply.

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We’ll carefully manage any future changes to courses, or the support and other services available to you, if these are necessary because of things like changes to government health and safety advice, or any changes to the law.

Any decisions will be taken in line with both external advice and the University’s Regulations which include information on this.

Our priority will always be to maintain academic standards and quality so that your learning outcomes are not affected by any adjustments that we may have to make.

At all times we’ll aim to keep you well informed of how we may need to respond to changing circumstances, and about support that we’ll provide to you.

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