Manchester, United Kingdom
DURATION
1 up to 3 Years
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time, Part time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
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EARLIEST START DATE
Sep 2025
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
Key Summary
Scholarships
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Introduction
This exciting programme enables you to top up previous studies with Level 6 modules to achieve a BSc (Hons) degree in as little as a year.
Whether you are a home or international nurse, you will develop your skills in critical thinking, evidence-based practice, analysis and understanding of clinical practice. The programme is designed to develop you clinically, as a research-aware practitioner and enable you to become proficient in education and lead change and quality improvement in practice.
You will:
- Develop your abilities to search for and use evidence for decision-making at the point of practice
- Develop your skills and knowledge to become an effective practitioner, leader and partner
- Be supported by a personal tutor
Ideal Students
This is for you if...
- You want to develop your career in health and social care
- You are dedicated and hard-working
- You want to top up your previous study to achieve a full BSc degree
Curriculum
This course is suitable for health and social care students/practitioners working at different levels and within a wide range of service delivery contexts. International students can apply for the full-time route.
All the modules have a clinical focus relevant to your own area of practice. With access to the University study and library skills team as well as your tutors, you will develop your academic skills as well as expand your clinical practice.
This programme aims to:
- Enable to make a difference to patients and services in an ever-changing health and social care environment
- Develop your ability to search for and critically evaluate evidence for decision-making at the point of practice to enhance the patient/client experience
- Support you to develop a systematic understanding of key aspects of your field of practice
- Utilise learning strategies that facilitate work-orientated learning and support you in becoming an autonomous lifelong learner
- Enable you to enhance their professional practice through the critical application of learning to their chosen area of practice
This programme runs full-time (one year) or part-time (three years), starting in either September or January. If you study part-time, you will complete two modules per year.
For International students, only the full-time route is available. Please note that if you start your full-time studies in January, you will have a break over the summer period and start your second semester in September.
Year one - International students (FT)
- Evidence for Enhancing Practice
- Enhancing Professional Healthcare Practice
- Leading Change for Patients and Service Improvement
- End of Life Care (Group A)
- Tissue Viability (Group B)
- Clinical Decision Making - Reasoning and Judgement
Year one - Home students (FT)
- Evidence for Enhancing Practice
- Leading Change for Patients and Service Improvement
- Enhancing Professional Healthcare Practice
- Clinical Decision Making - Reasoning and Judgement
You will also select two optional modules - one from group A and one from group B.
- End-of-Life Care (Group A)
- Tissue Viability (Group B)
- Patient Experience of Acute Neuroscience Care (Group A + B)
- Non-medical Prescribing (Group A + B)
Career Opportunities
All the modules within this course reflect key aspects of healthcare and provide the opportunity to influence healthcare practice today and in the future and impact on the delivery of care and service improvement.
On completion, you will be able to apply what you have learnt to your area of work and be better equipped to search for and use evidence for decision-making. The aim of this course is to provide you with the necessary knowledge and skills to enable you to develop within your post.
A BSc (Hons) degree will enhance your continuing professional development and is a requirement for many roles in the NHS and health and social care sectors.