Fundamentals of Primary Care Nursing (Nursing Homes) - AdvDip / BSc / GradCert
Currently viewing course to start in 2023/24 Entry.
If you work in the Nursing or Care Home setting, this course will equip you with all the core skills required for the role and to further develop your career.
- Level Top-Up Pathways
- Study mode Part Time
- Location City South
- Award AdvDip / BSc / GradCert
- Start date March 2024
- School School of Nursing and Midwifery
- Faculty Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences
Overview
If you work in the Nursing or Care Home setting, this course will equip you with all the core skills required for the role and to further develop your career.
What's covered in this course?
The course will develop your clinical and academic skills and prepare you develop as a practitioner leading the delivery of quality care. The focus will be on the adult resident in nursing and care home settings alongside generic community and primary care skills.
This 12-month course is delivered at the University, alongside online activities and supervised practice with a nurse mentor. Practical skills such as catheterisation, infection control, minor injury and illness, frailty and medicines management are covered. There is a strong focus on communication and assessment skills as well as chronic disease management including dementia, mental health and learning disability.
We have experienced lecturers with a background in primary care and community nursing and supported by subject specialist lecturers. You will learn through a variety of methods including role play, debate and case study approaches. You will receive support for you and your mentor in practice to achieve the practical elements and will be supported by a personal tutor from the teaching team throughout the programme.
The course has been developed alongside Health Education England and Birmingham Cross City Commissioning Group to provide a quality assured standardised course for the nursing home workforce.
Why Choose Us?
- All your essential training and education will be in one place.
- You'll benefit from learning in small groups, peer support and networking.
- You'll have support from an experienced teaching team.
- We have excellent links to practice.
Fees & How to Apply
UK students
Annual and modular tuition fees shown are applicable to the first year of study. The University reserves the right to increase fees for subsequent years of study in line with increases in inflation (capped at 5%) or to reflect changes in Government funding policies or changes agreed by Parliament.
Award: AdvDip
Starting: Mar 2024
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- 12 months
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Award: BSc
Starting: Mar 2024
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- Part Time
- 12 months
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Award: GradCert
Starting: Mar 2024
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- Part Time
- 12 months
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International students
Sorry, this course is not available to International students.
Entry requirements
To successfully apply for this course, you must:
- Be a NMC Registered Nurse
- Be employed in a nursing or residential home setting
- 120 Level 5 credits and 120 Level 4 credits are necessary to enrol for the BSc Award
- You will need the support of a Practice Assessor to support you in work based learning
Students who have a Dip HE or equivalent, but do not have any previous BCU credits will need to complete at least 100 credits to gain a BSc award. To achieve these 100 credits students need to complete, five x 20 credit modules at level 6, or by completing three modules at level 6 plus a 40-credit level 5 module. The 40 credit level 5 module comprises of a portfolio and is offered free of charge from BCU. Prospective students should contact the Academic Development Department to access this module. Please email Sherron Parkes Sherron.parkes@bcu.ac.uk to make an appointment.
How to apply
Complete the online application form via the link above depending on the route you wish to take.
Course in Depth
Modules
Level 6:
In order to complete this course a student must successfully complete all the following CORE modules (totalling 60 credits):
This core module is designed to support students new to primary or community care settings to develop the knowledge and skills required to work safely and provide high quality care in making the transition into the primary care and community environment. Students may be newly qualified and embarking on their first post or may have transferred from acute or other clinical backgrounds. This module can be accessed as a stand-alone module.
This module complements the Primary and Community Care Nursing: Core Skills module PHE6091 and PHE 6093. The module is designed to enable students to develop knowledge and skills to underpin the development of their career in primary and community care settings. It incorporates modern policy initiatives, leadership skills and the knowledge required to deliver evidence based high quality services within the primary care working environment.
This module builds on the foundation provided by the Primary Care Nursing Core and Professional Practice modules. The module is designed to enable students to develop knowledge and skills particularly related to the management of Long Term Conditions.
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This course is a 60 credit BSc top up degree. The award you graduate with will depend on your level of qualification on entry. For example, if you already have a diploma you will exit with a BSc, but you already have a degree you will exit with a Graduate Certificate.
You will be expected to commit one day a week to directed study and work-based learning.
The course is delivered through a combination of remote learning and face to face sessions at City South Campus. You will be assessed in a variety of ways including a reflective portfolio, written assignments and presentations.
Experiential learning will be incorporated into all aspects of learning and teaching, which will encourage a reflective approach.
Alongside individual tutorials, you'll also have the additional support of e-learning through the Moodle platform. Opportunities will be provided for simulated learning including role play, ‘hands on’ practical skills sessions using a range of simulation, video recording and playback.
Facilities & Staff
Our Facilities
Our School of Nursing and Midwifery is based at our City South campus in leafy Edgbaston.
We’ve spent £41million expanding our facilities at City South. These facilities offer hands-on practical experience, replicating the spaces you will come across in professional practice.
In a sector where new techniques are constantly being discovered, we work hard to ensure that you learn using the most up-to-date equipment available. Alongside physical spaces such as a mock operating theatre and wards, we also make use of online and virtual technology, such as our virtual ward and virtual case creator.
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Centre for Skills and Simulation
The Centre for Skills and Simulation offers a range of different spaces which replicate situations that you will encounter in practice. These include hospital wards, an operating theatre and a home environment room.
Our mock wards enable you to get a feel of what a ward is really like before you head out for your first placement. The hospital wards can be adapted from low care to high dependency care environment with the necessary monitoring equipment.
The home environment room is the perfect space for teaching communications skills and allows us to simulate a community setting for our students. It is particularly useful for mental health nurses, learning disability nurses and midwives.
Simulation Manikins
We have several Simulation men (SIM men) and simulation babies (SIM babies) which are anatomically correct manikins used for teaching specific techniques such as advanced adult and paediatric life support skills, acute and high dependency clinical skills, first aid and communication skills. The manikins contain software which replicates real symptoms, and can manipulate indicators such as blood pressure, pulse and heart rate for extra realism. SIM man can even ‘talk’ to the students as they are treating him, to add another dimension to learning.
Computer Facilities
The Seacole building has two open-access IT Suites which offer PCs, printers, photocopiers and scanners. There is also an IT Helpdesk for quick and easy help with your computing or internet issues.
Our PCs utilise the latest Intel i5 core technology, all with:
- Fast (unrestricted) internet connectivity
- Ability to save files to USB, DVD & CD
- Microsoft Office software
- Research and statistical software
- Storage space which can be accessed from any PC across the University and from home
Our PCs are also designed to support students who may have difficulties with reading and writing, featuring specialised software with zooming/magnification and screen reading capabilities, which may also be customised for individual student needs.
In addition to desktop PCs, we also offer a laptop loan facility, allowing students to borrow a laptop for up to six hours while on campus.
Our staff
Sue Shortland
Associate Professor – Primary Care
Sue qualified as a registered nurse in 1984 and a registered midwife in 1986. Sue worked for over 20 years in general practice as a general practice nurse and then as an advanced nurse practitioner and non-medical prescriber. Sue joined Birmingham City University in 2008 as a Senior Lecturer on the MSc Advanced Practice Course whilst also...
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Course enquiries
For course enquiries please contact Sue Shortland on:
- Sue.Shortland@bcu.ac.uk
- 0121 331 6157