Return to Nursing Practice

Our course aims to prepare nurses to return to the NMC register and will enable you to adapt to meet the future nurse standards in a continually changing and challenging environment, within a diverse cultural, social and economic healthcare system. In order to achieve this, you'll explore the development of evidence-based practice and its role in the provision of person-centred quality care. You'll also be encouraged to reflect on changes in practice and apply emerging evidence bases to this.

Delivered as a single 30-credit (level 6) module, you'll be expected to undertake:

• a minimum of 240 super-numerary practice hours,
• 84 teachers hours,
• 216 hours self-managed learning.

How you'll learn

The module will be taught through a hybrid learning approach.

Skills sessions will be taught face-to-face in a skills laboratory. This face-to-face learning will be supported by online materials and supernumerary clinical practice hours.

Meanwhile, theory will be taught through our online learning platform, Canvas.

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If you aren't currently in employment it's advised, but not essential, that you obtain some experience as a health care support worker ahead of your application, particularly if you've been out of practice for a prolonged number of years. ARU has agreement and support from a range of placement areas across Cambridgeshire and Essex, who are enthusiastic about placing returners. These placement areas will be interviewing and recruiting return to practice students who wish to work with them as qualified Nurses on successful completion of the course and will provide mentors in clinical practice to support you in your studies.

While you're studying, you'll be supernumerary wear a student uniform so you can be recognised as a learner in the practice area and colleagues can support your professional development.

Interview

Attendance at your interview is compulsory.

Assessment

• Completion of Practice Assessment Documents
• Medicine calculations test
• Narrated PowerPoint presentation.

You'll need to demonstrate competence in your sphere of clinical practice, via the national and supplementary practice documents for Return to Nursing Practice, and these will be assessed as pass or fail. You'll also need to pass a medicine calculations test and submit a narrated PowerPoint presentation. Satisfactory completion of all elements, including the achievement of the NMC standards (2018/9), will enable you to be eligible to apply for the appropriate professional qualification and re-entry onto the professional register.

How to apply

Direct applicants: You can apply to us for a place on this course, then we'll work with you to find a suitable placement to undertake your clinical hours if you've not been able to do so.

Employed route: Most of our local practice partners offer an employed route for Return to Nursing Practice. You'll first need to apply with your chosen Trust via NHS Jobs.

Applicants accepted onto the course are fully funded. Direct applicants will receive a £1,000 stipend; employer-led applicants will not receive a stipend as they are salaried.