BSc in Healthcare Practice Kingston University

Why choose this course?

Are you a healthcare practitioner looking to take the next steps in your career? This course will develop your skills and knowledge and give you a qualification to confirm your expertise.

You may have a DipHE / FdSc (or other comparable Level 5 qualification) that you want to 'top up' to gain a BSc (Hons) award. Work-based learning and specialist modules can suit your needs and background. You'll need 120 credits at Level 6 for the BSc (Hons), accumulated over two to four years.

If you already hold a degree-level qualification, there are clinically-focused graduate certificates in specialist areas available. For the Grad Cert, you'll need an undergraduate degree and an additional 60 credits at Level 6, accumulated over one-to-two years.

Reasons to choose Kingston University

• Kingston is No.1 in London and No.6 in the UK overall for nursing and midwifery (Guardian league tables 2022).
• Modules usually last five to ten weeks, with one taught study day per week. The BSc (Hons) top-up course offers a personalised plan of study.
• Modules can be tailored to give you the learning that suits your career aspirations.

What you will study

For the BSc (Hons) top-up, you will study one core Service Improvement module, totalling 30 credits. There is a range of optional modules from which to select the remaining 90 credits to personalise learning to your sphere of professional practice, career aspirations and service needs.

Module selection for the GradCert depends on which clinically-focused award you elect to undertake.

Core module

Core module for BSc Healthcare Practice

• BSc Honours Service Improvement Project

Option modules: 15 credits

15-credit option modules

• 12 Lead ECG Interpretation
• Adult Critical Care Polytrauma: Assessment and Management
• Applied Neonatal Pathophysiology
• Applied Pathophysiology in the Management of Children requiring Acute and High Dependency Care
• Cardiac Arrhythmias: Interpretation and Management
• High Dependency Neonatal Care
• Minor Illness: Assessment and Management
• Minor Injury Management
• Neonatal Intensive Care
• Neonatal Special and Transitional Care
• Respiratory Care for the Acute Setting
• Trauma Care: Initial Assessment and Management
• Work-Based Learning (15 credits)

Option modules: 30 credits

30-credit option modules

• Acutely Unwell Adult
• Adult Critical Care: Patient Assessment
• Adult Critical Care: Patient Management
• Anaesthetic Practice
• Applied Pathophysiology in the Management of Children requiring Acute and High Dependency Care
• Cardiac Care: Patient Assessment and Management
• Clinical Reasoning in Health Assessment: Lifespan Perspectives
• Critically Ill Child
• Emergency Practice
• Examination of the Newborn
• General Practice Nursing: Fundamentals of Care
• High Dependency Issues in Maternity Care
• Independent/Supplementary Prescribing for Nurses and Midwives (V300)
• Perinatal Mental Health
• Post Anaesthetic Care: Principles and Practice
• Professional Advocate
• Renal Dialysis: Principles of Care
• Renal Dysfunction: Complexities of Care
• Theatre Practice
• Work-Based Learning (30 credits)

Option modules: 60 credits

60-credit option modules

• Work-Based Learning (60 credits)

Please note

Optional modules only run if there is enough demand. If we have an insufficient number of students interested in an optional module, that module will not be offered for this course.

After you graduate

This course will help you:

• Develop your practical skills and knowledge.
• Lead changes and improvements into practice.
• Develop expertise in your clinical role.
• Move to a more senior role.
• Gain confidence and advanced communication skills in the workplace.