Nursing Presentation

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Nursing Presentation

• Colin Wheeldon, Carol Wylie , Kate Kilgallon,
• Stella Leen, Simon Cripps, Angela Hall Dom Wake
• Admissions Tutors

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Aims of Presentation

• Provide an overview of the Pre-registration
  Nursing Programmes
• Outline the entry requirements and selection
  process
• Answer questions

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Pre-Registration Nursing Programmes

• BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies
• Adult
• Childrens
• Mental Health
• Learning Disabilities

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Adult Nursing

• Caring for adults of all ages
• Hospital setting
• Medicine
• Surgery
• Care of older people
• Critical care
• Community Setting
• Primary care
• Community Nursing
• Nursing Homes
• Dementia care/services
• Walk-in / urgent care centres
• Involves multi-agency working

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Childrens Nursing

• Is about caring for a child whether ill or
  healthy
• It encompasses the whole family and promotes
  family-centred care
• Hospital and community setting

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Mental Health Nursing

• A discipline that enables people to reach and
  maintain their mental health and social goals in
  order to achieve their optimum quality of life
• Involves collaborative working with service users
  (and their families where appropriate) in a
  partnership approach
• Work with children, working age adults and the
  older person
• In residential units, wards, clients homes and
  in the community
• Involves effective working with other agencies
  (eg. Social Services)

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Learning Disabilities Nursing

• You will make a specialised contribution to the
  lives of people with learning disabilities across
  the age spectrum in a range of settings
• You will assist individuals with all aspects of
  their lives (eg health, social, employment) to
  enable them to achieve optimum health and social
  wellbeing
• Support children, adults and older people with
  complex needs (eg autism, challenging behaviour,
  multiple disabilities, mental health problems
  dementia)
• Lead improvements in both specialist and
  mainstream services for people with learning
  disabilities their families/carers

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Qualities of a Good Nurse....?

• Caring compassion
• Interpersonal Communication skills
• Enjoy working with people
• Able to empathise
• Non-judgemental
• Well organised
• Academic ability
• Willing to learn

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Academic Entry Requirements

• Applicants must apply through UCAS
• Minimum of 240 UCAS tariff points....OR
• Equivalent qualifications (e.g. QAA-recognised
  Access Course)
• Plus GCSE passes at grade C or above in English
  Language and Mathematics / equivalent
  qualifications (eg Level 2 Functional Skills in
  Communication and Numeracy)

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Other Requirements

• Success at interview
• Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Clearance
• Satisfactory workplace risk assessment
• Good references

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Bursaries

• Non means tested Grant - 1000 per year
• Means tested bursary
• Non means tested Maintenance Loan
• Final amount dependent on individual
  circumstances

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What will you study?

• Range of modules undertaken each year
• Year 1 Focuses on development of fundamental
  knowledge skills required to deliver quality
  patient care in all fields of nursing (care,
  compassion communication, human
  development/functioning across the age continuum,
  decision-making, improving health well being,
  professional nursing practice mostly core
  modules)
• Year 2 Focuses on field of nursing practice.
  Modules further develop decision-making skills,
  explore use of evidence to promote best
  practice/nursing care, service provision
  user/carer experience
• Year 3 Modules facilitate development of
  leadership skills, ability to effectively manage
  patient care improve health/social care
  practice within field of nursing
• Each year 50 of time spent in practice
• You will gain some practice experience of other
  fields of nursing

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Practice Placements

• 5000 Placements across the region audited to
  ensure suitability
• Placement could be anywhere within universitys
  placement circuit
• Shifts must experience 24 hour / 7 days per
  week care

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Location of Placements
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Student Support

• Excellent Academic and placement support
• Personal Tutors
• Module Lecturers
• Practice Mentors
• Learning Hub
• Student Services Department
• Disability Co-ordinator
• All information (timetables, module guides
  learning materials) available electronically

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The Application Process

• Via UCAS
• Closes January 15th
• Late applications only considered if places
  available
• Applications stamped and processed in date order

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The Selection Process

• All applicants undergo a
• standardised selection
• process prior to being made a conditional
  offer
• Short listing
• Interview

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Short Listing

• Criteria used by admissions tutors
• Application form is fully completed
• Eligibility for DH bursary
• Academic entry requirements
• Maths/English
• Studied within last 5 years
• Personal statement
• References

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Personal Statement

• Must be supportive of chosen nursing programme
• What generated your interest in the field of
  nursing
• Insight into the programme applied for and some
  of the demands to be faced
• How past study has prepared you
• Relevant work or life experience and how it has
  prepared you for the professional programme
• Interests / hobbies
• What have you got to offer in terms of personal
  qualities and skills

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Interview Performance

• Verbal communication
• Non verbal communication
• Knowledge of chosen field of nursing
• Demands of nursing
• Enthusiasm for nursing and becoming a nurse
• A future career plan
• Potential to become a professional

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Testing

• Literacy

• Numeracy

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Offers

• All offers are made via the UCAS site and are
  subject to the following
• Police vetting through the Criminal Records
  Bureau (CRB)
• Satisfactory workplace Risk Assessment
• Good academic and character references

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Any Questions?

• Thank you
• For further information on specific
• programmes/fields of nursing
• Please visit our web site
• http//www.tees.ac.uk