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) 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 in the 21st century.
The mandatory group ensures that learners have a good understanding of underpinning knowledge relevant to the role of the nurse, including basic anatomy and physiology, care principles and an introduction to the healthcare system. Learners can select from a range of optional units strongly based around equality and diversity in 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 role.
Learners must choose from a selection of mandatory and optional ungraded units to support underpinning skills, including a communication unit, linked to speaking and listening which is a vital skill for any nurse.
Why choose this qualification?
The Diploma has a strong emphasis on the skills required of the nurse in the 21st century.
The mandatory group ensures that learners have a good understanding of underpinning knowledge relevant to the role of the nurse, including basic anatomy and physiology, care principles and an introduction to the healthcare system. Learners can select from a range of optional units strongly based around equality and diversity in 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 role.
Learners must choose from a selection of mandatory and optional ungraded units to support underpinning skills, including a communication unit, linked to speaking and listening which is a vital skill for any nurse.