Key points
• Study to meet Nursing and Midwifery Council graduate-status requirements.
• Consolidate your existing training and experience to complete your degree in one year, part time.
• Improve clinical decision making, patient focused care and other areas of development.
• Receive one-to-one academic supervision when completing your dissertation.

Top-up your current Advanced Diploma in Nursing or Midwifery to a full honours degree. It has been developed in accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s declaration that by 2013 nursing and midwifery education should lead to an all-graduate profession.

As well as allowing you to meet these requirements, completing this course enhances your knowledge and expertise through critical analysis of your own practice. You develop the leadership and management skills to instigate change and innovation. This course can be an important step towards more senior roles in your profession.

Gaining a deeper academic understanding of the theory underpinning practice helps to
• enhance clinical decision making
• improve patient-focused care
• contribute to evidence-based practice
• encourage innovation in practice
• create dynamic leaders in modern healthcare

During your studies, you develop professional skills through a module called enhancing professional practice, which consists of five taught study days, complemented by our electronic virtual learning environment (called Blackboard). The taught days are delivered on our campus.

You also develop your academic skills with a research-based literature review as your dissertation. Your dissertation is supported by one-to-one academic supervision, either in person or through online tutorials.

The learning outcomes of the course apply to all registered nurses and midwifes in any setting. You base your work on your own clinical setting with support from an academic with knowledge and experience in that area.

This course complements preceptorship programmes and enhances professional practice. It has been developed in partnership with senior nurses from all practice settings, representing all branches of nursing and midwifery.