Professional recognition
This course is validated and approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
When you successfully complete the course, you'll be eligible to register your qualification as a Nurse Independent/Supplementary Prescriber with the NMC.
- You must be registered with the appropriate professional body in the UK and practising within the UK to be eligible to join the course. This means that we're unable to consider most international applicants.
- You must be currently registered as a first-level nurse, midwife, or health visitor on the Professional Register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- You should also have a minimum of one year of appropriate post-registration experience, with the last 12 months specifically in the area of practice where there is an identified need for you to regularly use independent and supplementary prescribing.
- You'll become part of a tripartite learning agreement. The other parties are the Academic Assessor and a Practice Assessor.
- You'll need to arrange to have the support of a Practice Assessor in practice who can provide guidance and supervision of your practice-based learning whilst you're on the course. This assessor may be a doctor or appropriate NMP with whom you usually work, and they must meet specific criteria outlined in the Nomination Form. Your Practice Assessor will be supplied with full documentation in support of their role.
- You’ll need to show 80% achievement via the online numeracy test arranged by the Trust NMP Lead or through the NMP Programme Lead at the University.
- You'll also need to show that you possess basic computer literacy skills.
- District nurses, health visitors and V150 Nurse Prescribers (from the Nurse Prescribers’ Formulary), who, with local agreement, will extend their prescribing responsibilities under arrangements from 2002, must complete this programme of preparation and meet the assessment requirements. There will be recognition of prior learning and experience. However, all assessments must be completed satisfactorily.
- To be eligible to register as a Nurse Independent/Supplementary Prescriber with the Nursing and Midwifery Council when you complete this course, you must complete the V300 Nomination Form before you enrol. You can download the V300 Nomination Form from the Health and Education Co-operative's website at https://www.hecooperative.co.uk/nmp-area/nmp-courses-uk/
- This course involves regulated activity so you must gain an Enhanced Disclosure certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) before starting your studies. Charges are payable to cover the cost of the DBS Enhanced Disclosure application and annual registration with the online (Normally your sponsoring organisation will organise this.) Please note that your DBS must have been completed within three years of the course start date.Update Service.
- You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.
- If English isn’t your first language, you’ll also need IELTS 7.0 with normally no less than 6.5 in any band (or equivalent). We also accept a range of other English language qualifications – please visit our English Language Requirements web page for more details.
- Please note that this course is subject to the University of Bolton's Fitness to Practise procedure.
Where changes are made to material information contained in this course description or a decision is taken to suspend a course between the offer of admissions and enrolment, we will inform applicants at the earliest possible opportunity and will outline the various options available to the applicant.
Home students starting this course in the first year will be required to pay a Home fee of £1,600 for the academic year 2023/24.
Important note regarding tuition fees for the 2023-2024 academic year:
EU nationals who meet residency requirements (have settled or pre-settled status) may be eligible for 'Home' fee status.
If you do not meet these residency requirements, overseas fees will apply. Irish citizens living in the UK or Ireland will be eligible for 'Home' fee status under the Common Travel Area arrangement.
Please read the student finance for EU students web page on www.gov.uk for information.
The fees for a student's course of study will be set for the
normal duration of that course subject only to inflationary increases – measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded in
March each year to take effect for subsequent start dates.
Bursaries
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We take a blended approach offering a combination of face-to-face and online activities, including lectures, workshops, tutorials, role-play, discussions, and e-learning via the virtual learning environment. In classroom sessions, you'll focus mainly on studying the theory of independent and supplementary prescribing.
To cover the fundamentals of practice, we'll expect you to complete 12 days of hands-on experience to develop and demonstrate competence in prescribing within your area of clinical practice. During the course, you'll have access to staff support and meetings with your Academic Assessor at least twice each trimester. However, you'll be primarily responsible for managing your learning and must commit to considerable independent study time.
During assessments, you'll need to demonstrate that you can prescribe medicines safely and effectively for patients within the current legal, ethical and professional frameworks relating to prescribing practice. You'll also need to demonstrate that you're competent to prescribe within the context of your clinical placement. We'll expect you to create a portfolio and reflective learning log relevant to your prescribing practice in your own clinical setting. You'll also sit several written examinations, and your Practice Assessor will assess your communication, consultation and clinical decision-making skills in practice.
Modules
- Non-Medical Independent and Supplementary Prescribing for Nurses and Midwives (26 weeks)
Assessment methods
| Level | Assesment method |
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| Level one | Coursework 50%, Written exams 50% |
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Learning activities
| Level | Learning activity |
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| Level one | Guided independent study 25%, Placement/study abroad 50%, Scheduled learning and teaching activities 25% |
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Disclaimer
The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. The university considers changes to courses very carefully and the university will minimise any changes. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and academic reasons. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up-to-date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason, we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.
