Key Facts
New suite of Access to HE Diplomas for August 2024
Our brand new suite of Access to HE Diplomas is available for delivery from 1st August 2024.
Access to HE Diploma (Nursing and Midwifery) Overview
Changes to Access to HE confirmed by QAA: Diploma Specification and Grading Scheme
Qualification Summary
The Diploma has a strong emphasis on the skills required of the nurse and midwife in the 21st century. The mandatory group ensures that learners have a good understanding of underpinning knowledge relevant to the role of the nurse and the midwife, including basic anatomy and physiology, human reproduction care principles and an introduction to the healthcare system.
Learners can select from a range of optional units linked to nursing and/or midwifery skills which are also strongly based around equality and diversity and the relevant values required within the nursing sector. They can choose to study units around ill health and the role that socio-economic status and life choices have on health. A mandatory unit on care principles shows the importance placed on the subject within the nursing or midwifery role.
Learners must choose from a selection of mandatory and optional ungraded units to support underpinning skills, including a mandatory communication unit, linked to speaking and listening which is a vital skill for any nurse or midwife.
The Diploma will provide them with underpinning skills to support academic study and provide a level 3 qualification linked to their proposed HE study. A broad range of skills related to care will be acquired, whilst the underpinning skills within the ungraded units will ensure that the learner is fully prepared for progression onto relevant degrees.
Why choose this qualification?
The Diploma has a strong emphasis on the skills required of the nurse and midwife in the 21st century. The mandatory group ensures that learners have a good understanding of underpinning knowledge relevant to the role of the nurse and the midwife, including basic anatomy and physiology, human reproduction care principles and an introduction to the healthcare system.
Learners can select from a range of optional units linked to nursing and/or midwifery skills which are also strongly based around equality and diversity and the relevant values required within the nursing sector. They can choose to study units around ill health and the role that socio-economic status and life choices have on health. A mandatory unit on care principles shows the importance placed on the subject within the nursing or midwifery role.
Learners must choose from a selection of mandatory and optional ungraded units to support underpinning skills, including a mandatory communication unit, linked to speaking and listening which is a vital skill for any nurse or midwife.
The Diploma will provide them with underpinning skills to support academic study and provide a level 3 qualification linked to their proposed HE study. A broad range of skills related to care will be acquired, whilst the underpinning skills within the ungraded units will ensure that the learner is fully prepared for progression onto relevant degrees.