Nursing Associate - NA

University of Gloucestershire

This course will provide you with the knowledge, understanding, skills, attitudes and behaviours to become a Nursing Associate.

We’ll enable you to become a compassionate, competent and confident nursing associate at academic level 5 (foundation degree) – qualified to deliver a wide range of clinical, care and inter-personal skills, underpinned by a systematic knowledge base.

You’ll be able to practise safely and effectively within your parameters of practice, demonstrating appropriate values and behaviours in a wide range of health and care settings.

You’ll experience a variety of learning and teaching methods to enable you to achieve all of the learning outcomes and continue your personal and professional development. Learning styles will include a flexible and blended combination of:

• formal learning (face-to-face, physical and/or virtual/online)
• mandatory clinical training prior to placement
• placements in a variety of settings
• clinical skills development
• reading and study periods
• self-directed learning (physical/online)
• educational supervision and mentoring
• assessment activities
• teaching within the workplace
• collaborative learning sets
• informal learning (eg blogs, social media)
• simulation
• shadowing