Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Bachelor of Science with Honours - BSH

Alternative Exit

Alternative Exit

Alternate Award Names

BSc Health Studies; DipHE Health Studies

Accreditation

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

Apprenticeship Standard

Registered nurse degree (NMC 2018) - ST0781

Programme Offerings

Full-Time

F2F-JMU-MAR

Educational Aims of the Course

This programme aims to develop and prepare graduate registered child nurses for the complex, demanding, and rewarding area of nursing. The programme aims to produce registered child nurses who are proficient, safe and accountable practitioners, who can deliver person-centred, evidence based and effective care, working with other professions and agencies in an ever-changing and complex healthcare environment. The programme will enable the development of undergraduate academic skills underpinned by a global perspective, supported by technology and simulation-based teaching and learning. 

On completion of the BSc (Hons) Children's Nursing programme the apprentice learner will be able to:

Learning Outcomes

1.
Evaluate the dynamic and complex nature of health services and the needs of the communities they serve and demonstrate a commitment to meeting these changing needs.
2.
Demonstrate the ability to locate and evaluate research for the provision of safe and effective health care.
3.
Practice confidently in accordance with the NMC Code, delivering patient-centred care in a compassionate, respectful way, maintaining dignity, enhancing wellbeing and communicating effectively with people of all ages.
4.
Act in the best interests of people and be accountable for providing nursing care that is person-centred, safe, and compassionate.
5.
Continuously improve the safety and quality of nursing care, enhancing people's experiences of services and optimising health outcomes.
6.
Demonstrate leadership skills and attributes, underpinned by strong critical reflection skills, through effective working within interdisciplinary teams to achieve safe and effective patient care.
7.
Coordinate and lead complex care across organisations and settings, safeguarding the public and advocating for safe and effective practice.
8.
Be a champion for social justice and equality, demonstrating advocacy with people and assertively challenge practices that are unsafe, unsatisfactory, and ineffective.
9.
Demonstrate employability skills that include professional written and spoken communication, numeracy skills, digital capability, team working and collaboration.
10.
Become a reflective practitioner with the skills for life-long learning.

Teaching, Learning and Assessment

The programme utilises a variety of teaching and learning approaches that are designed to engage and inspire apprentice learners. These include lectures, seminars, group work activities, simulation and tutorials. LJMU’s Learning and Teaching Strategy 2023-2030 has guided the programme delivery to ensure that learners develop and utilise progressively higher order graduate skills throughout the modules, as well as subject specific knowledge and skills as they become inquiring and confident learners.

The NMC Standards for Pre-registration Nursing Programmes (NMC, 2023) is also reflected in the teaching learning and assessment to ensure all learners receive the appropriate breadth of knowledge and experience required as Registered Children's Nurse. 

In addition to theoretical teaching, learning and assessment, apprentice learners also experience learning within practice environments.  A range of learning and teaching strategies support practice leaning including simulated education. All student  nurses will be allocated an appropriate and suitable prepared practice assessor, practice supervisor and academic assessor who will support their learning and assessment in practice and confirm their progression. This is a requirement of the NMC (2023) Standards for Supervision and Assessment. Learners will be assessed in practice using the Nursing Practice Assessment Document.

A model of teaching and learning will be applied across the programme that fosters independence in the acquisition of knowledge and the facilitation of the application of theoretical knowledge to nursing practice; learners will therefore:

  • Be enabled in acquiring knowledge through supported independent learning. This will include being directed to scholarly activities that will prepare them for scheduled teaching activity that is provided directly by members of staff in real time, either face-to-face or synchronous online. This may take the form of lectures, seminars, tutorials and webcasts.
  • Be supported in engaging in online asynchronous activity. Examples include asynchronous tutorial discussions, tutor-facilitated discussion boards, and tutor-facilitated collaborative or individual projects such as wikis, padlets, blogs and e-portfolios. Academic staff actively, iteratively and directly engage with students to facilitate and guide learning, and are visible, engaged and active in the virtual learning environment.
  • Consolidate theoretical learning in the practice learning environment whilst being supported and assessed by practice supervisors and assessors and academic assessors.

Formative assessment will take place both within the theoretical and practice learning environment. To prepare for theoretical assessment learners will be given the opportunity to practice the appropriate skills that relate to the variety of assessment methods that are utilised throughout the programme. This will enable them to adequately prepare for written, verbal, practical and examination forms of assessment in each year of study.

Learners will have to undertake a theoretical assessment for each theoretical module. Assessment methods will be authentic to nursing to demonstrate knowledge and competency, in preparation of ‘real-world’ tasks that students are expected to experience in their professional careers.

The programme will utilise a combination of face to face delivery, assessment and KSB development time. Apprentice learners are required to have a balance of on-the-job and off-the-job learning. This is divided between the employer workplace and the apprenticeship training provider.  The apprenticeship standards require a minimum of 20% of the programme time as  off-the-job learning. 

Opportunities for work related learning

Practice learning accounts for 50% of the learning on this programme as per NMC Programme Standards for Pre-registration Nursing (2023). In addition to learning within their place of employment, students will have the opportunity to work in external placements across a wide range of settings to ensure that they meet NMC requirements.. Placements will be allocated either by the employer or by LJMU.

Learners must achieve NMC proficiencies in practice. This is recorded within the Practice Assessment Document and learners are supported, and assessed, by Practice Assessors and Practice Supervisors. These are registered professionals that meet the NMC (2023) requirements of Supervision and Assessment in Practice.

A Practice Supervisor has an important role in supporting and guiding students through their learning taking into account any reasonable adjustment required. Practice Supervisor(s) will give feedback on progress in achieving assessment requirements and proficiencies. There will be occasions when non-registered professionals will support their learning and provide feedback.

Every learner will also have an Academic Assessor who will liaise with the Practice Assessor to confirm progression and programme outcomes in the academic environment for each part of the programme. 

All placements have an educational audit and are evaluated by students for quality assurance and monitoring.  

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

This programme is an apprenticeship incorporating off-the-job learning to develop knowledge, skills and behaviours aligned to the apprenticeship standard (ST0781). This programme is Full-Time: 21 months (+18 month RPL). The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC, 2023) stipulates that the programme can be no less than three academic years. Apprentice learners … For more content click the Read More button below. The programme has 60 credits in Year 1 and 120 credits in Year 2, incorporating modules of 20 credits, 3 in year 1 and 6 in year 2.  Apprentice learners will be deemed to have completed the programme when they have achieved 60 credits at level 5 and 120 credits at level 6, and completed the NMC required number of theory and practice hours. Validated alternative exit awards are: BSc Health Studies (300 Credits) and DipHE Health Studies (240 credits). These exit awards do not enable entry to the NMC register as a registered nurse.  Apprentice learners must be informed of the requirement to declare immediately any police charges, cautions, convictions or conditional discharges, or determinations that their fitness to practise is impaired (NMC Standards for Pre-registration Programmes 2023:1.3) Apprentice learners must be informed during the programme that they have five years in which to register their award with the NMC. In the event of a learner failing to register their qualification within five years they will have to undertake additional education and training or gain such experience as is specified in our standards to register their award (NMC Standards for Pre-registration Programmes 2023:5.2) Tripartite reviews Over the course of the programme, apprentice learners will have four tripartite reviews per year. Tripartite reviews are an opportunity to check progression of achievement of the knowledge, skills and behaviours, that apprentices are on target with their practice and theory hours and whether the apprentice requires any additional pastoral or academic support. Tripartite reviews are also an opportunity to set targets and review grades and ensure apprentices have the opportunity to discuss safeguarding, British values and Prevent. Safeguarding , Prevent and British Values Programme induction will introduce safeguarding, prevent and British values to apprentice learners and will ensure apprentices know how to raise concerns and stay safe online, in the workplace and at university. All apprentice learners at LJMU will be required to complete three small mandatory modules on safeguarding, prevent and British values. Apprentice learners will also be provided with an Apprentice Guide to Safeguarding which will be freely available on their virtual learning environment (VLE). End Point Assessment (EPA) The EPA period should only start, and the EPA be arranged, once the employer and NMC Approved Education Institution are satisfied that the apprentice is consistently working at or above the level set out in the occupational standard and all of the pre-requisite gateway requirements for EPA have been met. It is expected that the gateway will be reached on completion of the final qualification module and before the AEI’s examination board. Prior to commencement, apprentices will have their numeracy and literacy skills assessed by the NMC Approved Education Institution to ensure the apprentice has the necessary skills at a minimum of Level 2 to meet the requirements of the programme (please note that level 2 certification of Maths and English is a prerequisite of admission onto the programme). The EPA period is expected to last a maximum of 1 month beginning when the apprentice has passed the EPA gateway. The EPA will determine the overall apprenticeship standard and grades of: • fail • pass This apprenticeship has a fully integrated EPA. The EPA will use the assessment arrangements in use for other entry routes into this occupation and will be completed simultaneously, as outlined in this end-point assessment plan. Alignment of the integrated EPA is permitted because the following criteria are met: Parliament has prescribed that the occupation (profession) must be regulated and a statutory regulator has undisputed control of access to the occupation.The fully integrated EPA meets the requirements of an apprenticeship.   EPA Gateway The EPA period should only start once the employer and the NMC Approved Education Institution are satisfied that the apprentice is consistently working at or above the level set out in the occupational standard. The EPA starts with exam board and finishes when the AEI: • uploads the apprentice’s course and personal details to the NMC database • sends the NMC a declaration of the apprentice’s good health and character The apprentice must have completed the following gateway requirements prior to beginning their EPA: • Achieved English and mathematics at level 2. For those with an education, health and care plan or a legacy statement the apprenticeships English and mathematics minimum requirement is Entry Level 3 and British Sign Language qualification are an alternative to English qualifications for whom this is their primary language. Apprentices must complete all required modules, taking into account any recognised prior learning (RPL) of the following approved qualifications as mandated in the occupational standard: • Degree in Nursing or L7 qualification approved by the NMC (where the apprentice already holds a Level 6 degree) The apprentice will also have successfully completed a Practice Assessment Document (PAD) and this will have been signed-off by their practice and academic assessor.

Approved variance from Academic Framework Regulations

No compensation to be awarded for any module on this programme (Approved: 22/11/23) Students cannot be given a 3rd attempt (either an exceptional 2nd referral or final referral) for modules 5107NAPRN. Students failing this module at the 2nd attempt will not be allowed to continue on the programme. Level 6 … For more content click the Read More button below.

Entry Requirements

Alternative qualifications considered

DBS Required

GCSEs and equivalents

Interview required

Occupational Health Assessment Required

Other international requirements

RPL

HECoS Code(s)

(CAH02-04) nursing and midwifery