Nursing Associate

The pre-registration nursing associate degree, approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, is designed to provide you with a direct route to becoming a Registered Nursing Associate (RNA) within the NHS or other health and care organisation. The Nursing Associate role is essential to the future development of health and social care and completing this foundation degree will quality you to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and work as Band 4 within the NHS.

Delivered by experienced Registered Nurses, the flexible, practice based programme provides students with the clinical knowledge and skills to support the provision of safe, quality care across a range of healthcare settings.

The embedded practice-based approach to this programme will enable you to experience a range of placement across the health sector, communicating effectively and developing skills which will allow you to flourish both academically and, in the workplace.

Successful completion of the FdSc Nursing Associate programme provides eligibility to apply for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Registered Nursing Associate (RNA).