Nursing Degrees Online

The pre-registration nursing programme leads to the award of an Open University Diploma of Higher Education (Nursing) and the professional qualification of Registered Nurses on the NMC Register (Part 1).

Presented in partnership with and supported by Strategic Health Authorities; Workforce Development Confederations; The Scottish Executive, Department of Health; Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland; Trusts and independent health care providers, the programme is initially aimed at experienced health workers who meet the professional body’s minimum requirements for entry to nurse training. The programme enables you to study and qualify while remaining in work and maintaining your family and social commitments.

The programme involves a structured educational framework that uses the workplace as the site for student learning. It is therefore only open to you if your employer is/becomes involved in this Open University partnership.
Planning your studies

The programme is offered in collaboration with employing agencies only. The Open University provides study materials, organises tutorials and manages the assessment procedures. It supports the practice learning element of the programme, which is substantially managed by the student’s employer. Responsibilities are set out in a formal agreement signed by The Open University and the employing organisation.

You can study the programme over four, five or six years although it is expected that most students will take four to five years. (There is a time limit for studying this diploma of higher education. You must obtain the required 240 credit points within 7 years.) You remain in employment while you study but your employer is required to give you time off for study.

Throughout the programme, there is a 50:50 split between theory and practice, learning in practice opportunities being planned to ensure adequate and appropriate experience.

Designed to offer maximum flexibility, there are a number of ‘stepping on’ and ‘stepping off’ points throughout the programme enabling you to take study breaks if needed.

You must include at least 80 points from OU courses that have not been counted in an OU diploma or other first degree you have been awarded.

The pre-registration nursing programme leads to the award of an Open University Diploma of Higher Education (Nursing) and the professional qualification of Registered Nurse on the NMC register (Part 1).

Presented in partnership with, and supported by Strategic Health Authorities; Workforce Development Confederations; The Scottish Executive; Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety, Northern Ireland; Trusts and independent health care providers, the programme is initially aimed at experienced health workers who meet the regulatory body’s minimum requirements for entry to nurse training. The programme enables you to study and qualify while remaining in work and maintaining your family and social commitments.

The programme involves a structured educational framework that uses the workplace as the site for student learning. It is therefore only open to you if your employer is/becomes involved in this Open University partnership.

Planning your studies

The programme is offered in collaboration with employing organisations only. The Open University provides study materials, organises tutorials and manages the assessment procedures. It supports the practice learning element of the programme, which is substantially managed by the student’s employer. Responsibilities are set out in a formal agreement signed by The Open University and the employing organisation.

You can study the programme over four, five or six years although it is expected that most students will take four to five years. (There is a time limit for studying this diploma of higher education. You must obtain the required 240 credit points within 7 years.) You remain in employment while you study but your employer is required to give you time off for study.

Throughout the programme, there is a 50:50 split between theory and practice, learning in practice opportunities being planned to ensure adequate and appropriate experience.

Designed to offer maximum flexibility, there are a number of ‘stepping on’ and ‘stepping off’ points throughout the programme enabling you to take study breaks if needed.

You must include at least 80 points from OU courses that have not been counted in an OU diploma or other first degree you have been awarded.

Profile of the nurse

Responsible
Nurses working in all sectors of healthcare. As a nurse are you in for counseling of patients and clients with health problems. You will develop, in consultation with the team, a custom care plan and you are responsible for the coordination and implementation. Within the multidisciplinary team is your nurse input of great value.

Skillslab and internships

Versatile specialist - Our nurse training is practical and varied. It consists of 50% theory and 50% clinical training. If you get a realistic view of your professional future. Through the courses and training to become the multi-expert to serve as polyvalent nurse working in health care.

First Year Nursing

The first column shows the boxes, in the second column is the hours per academic year. New insights and needs in the health plan can be adjusted.

Second Year Nursing

In the second year the education activities common and both theoretical and practical orientation to the various specializations.

Third year nursing

You have the choice between five specializations: geriatric nursing, pediatric nursing, psychiatric nursing, social nursing and hospital nursing. Folders Info: see above

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Basic nursing part-time

The bachelor degree in nursing and get simultaneously (within or outside health care)? Anyone with a degree of at least secondary education can do so through a flexible learning.
The first year of nursing do you do half-time. If you receive at least 4 years after the bachelor degree in nursing. If you are active in healthcare, you can through a customized internship scheme professional experience.

Since its foundation, this Department has been highly rated and has built up a tradition and reputation as one of the foremost Departments for school nurse training in Western Japan. By establishing a non-degree special graduate program (leading to a bachelor’s degree) in addition to the junior college associate’s degree, this has become an elite department and esteemed place for higher education. Course subjects include classes relating to culture, the teaching profession, and other specialized classes.

Students of this Department acquire the eligibility requirements to take the examination for nursery teacher qualification. Our Department has also established useful subjects relating to children’s health and mental health which further assist the students to obtain various qualifications. Also, from 2006, specialized intensive lectures have been planned to assist the students to prepare and pass the nursery teacher qualification examination

The two-year Master’s degree programme in nursing leads to an Master of Science, MSc (Nursing). To be admitted to the Master’s degree programme, you must have completed a professional Bachelor’s degree in nursing or be a trained nurse in accordance with previous executive orders or regulations regarding nurse training, followed by a supplementary subject programme in nursing or equivalent studies relevant to the health sciences.

The Master’s degree programme in nursing is taught at the Department of Science in Nursing, which is part of the Institute of Public Health at the University of Aarhus. This is where you build up your theoretical and methodological skills in nursing. During the course of your Master’s degree studies, you prepare a number of smaller written assignments, concluding with a larger written thesis. Your thesis requires you to work independently on a larger formulation task of your own choosing that is related to nursing.

The first two terms of the Master’s degree programme consist of compulsory courses. However, the third term consists of elective courses, which gives you an opportunity to shape your own degree programme according to your interests and career goals. During this term, you also have an opportunity to select subjects from other departments or universities in Denmark or abroad.

In accordance with professional developmental trends, the mission of the Department of Nursing is to prepare nurses use health promotion and case management as their theoretical framework, as well as kindness, compassion, joy and unselfish giving —the four components of our school mission, as the guidance of their professional study to achieve a good nurse training through humanism learning. Professional educational goals: Focusing on health promotion, disease prevention, acute care as well as long term care needs, we expects our graduates will become clinical specialists with the capablity to incorporate needed resources, and provide continuum of care 1.Holistic approach and incorporate community and clinical care components into the program 2. special laboratory based on our mission, which includes Health promotion center, Barrier-Free Home Environment Demo Lab, Center of Health Promotion, Network Center of Chronic Disease care. Clinical Practice Combining with community and clinical practice, two-year technological college students are assigned and practice in the clinical place in accordance with their interest. PAdvanced studies: 1.The graduates of Junior College can participate in the two-year technical college recommended examination or take entrance examinations to go a two-year technical college, university, study abroad, or graduate school. 2.The graduates of two-year technical college can take examinations to go a graduate school or study abroad. Curriculum Directions of enterprise After graduating, Students are able to operate a nursing home, doing the month center, babysitting center, home care center, long-term care facilities and the marketing center of nursing articles. Physical Assessment （Laboratory）, Consultation and Education in Nursing, Community health assessment and planning, Biostatistics, Introduction to Nursing research, Nursing administration and management, The project of nursing administration, Advanced Pediatric Nursing, Women’s health Nursing, Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, Adult Health Nursing, Emergency and critical care nursing, Home Health Care, Community Health Nursing, Care and Management in Institutions, Clinical nursing practicum, Advances in clinincal Practicum, Community health nursing practicum. Introduction to Nursing, Fundamental of Nursing（Laboratory）, Fundamentals of Nursing Practicum, Nursing Process, Introduction to Chinese Medicine, Introduction to Biostatistics, Health Education, Medical and Surgical Nursing, Critical Care Nursing, Maternity Nursing , Maternity Nursing Laboratory, Pediatric Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, Community Health Nursing, Psychiatric Nursing, Introduction to Long-term care nursing, Gerontological Nursing, Gerontological Nursing Laboratory, Medical and Surgical Nursing Practicum, Maternity Nursing Practicum, Pediatric Nursing Practicum, Long-term care Nursing Practicum, Community Health Nursing Practicum, Psychiatric Nursing Practicum, Clinical Practicum, Seminar on Professional Nursing Issues. Fundamental Nursing Lab, Medical-Surgical Nursing Lab, Obstetric-Pediatric Nursing Lab, Barrier-Free Home Environment Demo Lab, Center of Health Promotion, Chinese-Western Medical Lab, Network Center of Chronic Disease care, Maternal-Child Health Education Resource Center, Child Health Assessment Center, Child Sensory Integration Center Mother-family based Birth Demonstration Center, Women’s Health Promotion Center.”

:: Code:
100930-0
:: Sport:
Bachelor and Master
:: Load Horária Total:
4715 hours - Curriculum Matrix
:: Time Course:
Between 4.5 and 7 years (maximum)
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:: Objectives of Course:
Participate effectively in achieving the universal right to health in accordance with the principles of resolution, equity and comprehensiveness.
Develop the ability to set their thinking-how, from the understanding of the epidemiological profile of the population, adding up properly and dynamically
the production of health services, the use of new technologies and knowledge needed for the transformation of the whole society.
Empower the nurse to assume the coordination of the work of nursing in clinical and epidemiological models.
Ensure the nurse training through degree, professional training for the workforce in the nursing level.
:: Profile of the trainee:
Committed to the development of the profession and its depth of technical skills and scientific and other employees of nursing.
Able to identify the individual and collective needs of the population and its determinants.
Capable of intervening in the production of health services with a view of the epidemiological profiles and transformation and improvement of the health-illness.
Coordinating the work of nursing, part of collective work in health, through the work processes of nursing (manage, assist / intervene, teaching / learning and research), clinical and epidemiological models in the production of health services.
Producer of knowledge committed to the transformation of the epidemiological profiles.
Responsible for the process of training of workers and participants of the nursing process of training other health workers.
Able to establish new relationships with the social context, recognizing the structure and forms of social organization, its transformations and expressions.
Able to understand the health policy in the context of social policies, acknowledging the epidemiological profiles of populations.
Able to recognize the relationship of work and its influence on health.
Capable of meeting the specific regional health interventions through strategic planning.
Committed to the political organization of nurses and other workers
Articulate, negotiator, able to establish alliances and partnerships.
:: Field of Expertise:
Public and private: schools, daycare centers, businesses, hospitals, clinics, health units, communities, practices at home.
Institutions of higher education and secondary education.
Professional self.
:: Powers of the trained professional:
The nurse must acquire during their training, skills, abilities and attitudes to work in assistance, information, education,
prevention, research and management in health.
General knowledge and specific skills to ensure the clinical, epidemiological, technical, scientific, ethical and political, capable of allowing you to insert in
work processes; assist / intervene, manage, research and teaching, considering the demands and needs and priorities of the prevalent population,
as the epidemiological picture of the country and the region.

PREREQUISITES TO PROGRAM ADMISSIONENGL 1301 Composition I 3
CHEM 1405 Introductory Chemistry I 4
BIOL 2401 Anatomy and Physiology I OR 4
SCIT 1407 Human Anatomy and Physiology I (4)
PSYC 2301 Introduction to Psychology 3
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SEMESTER ISCIT 1408 Human Anatomy and Physiology II OR 4
BIOL 2402 Anatomy and Physiology II (4)
RNSG 1211 Nursing Pathophysiology 2
RNSG 1413 Foundations for Nursing Practice 4
RNSG 1105 Nursing Skills I 1
RNSG 1360 Clinical-Nursing - Registered Nurse Training 3
RNSG 1108 Dosage Calculations for Nursing 1
PSYC 2314 Developmental Psychology 3
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SEMESTER IIRNSG 1301 Pharamcology 3
RNSG 1144 Nursing Skills II 1
RNSG 2213 Mental Health Nursing 2
RNSG 1160 Clinical-Nursing - Registered Nurse Training 1
RNSG 1441 Common Concepts of Adult Health 4
RNSG 2360 Clinical-Nursing - Registered Nurse Training 3
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SEMESTER IIIRNSG 2208 Maternal/Newborn Nursing and Women’s Health 2
RNSG 2161 Clinical-Nursing - Registered Nurse Training 1
RNSG 2201 Care of Children and Families 2
RNSG 2160 Clinical-Nursing - Registered Nurse Training 1
SPAN 1300 Beginning Spanish Conversation I 3
BIOL 2420 Microbiology for Non-Science Majors 4
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SEMESTER IVRNSG 1443 Complex Concepts of Adult Health 4
RNSG 2461 Clinical-Nursing - Registered Nurse Training 4
SPCH 1311 Introduction to Speech Communication 3
HPRS 1203 End of Life Issues 2
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Minimum Hours Required 72

A minimum grade requirement of “C” or better for ALL the courses in the Brookhaven College Associate Degree Nursing is required.

Note: Students enrolling in this program who plan to transfer to a four-year institution should consult an advisor or counselor regarding the transferability of these courses to the four-year institution of their choice.