Key Features
Aligned with NHS career framework
Part Time
You choose the focus of your learning
Designed for practitioners
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Course Overview
This course supports learners who are former Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or United Kingdom Central Council for Nursing (UKCC), Midwifery, and Health Visiting registrants who qualified as Adult, Mental Health, and Children's nurses who are looking to return to work and registration with the NMC.
Successful completion of the course will enable you to demonstrate achievement of the NMC Standards for Proficiency and programme outcomes for the relevant part of the register. This will deem you eligible to reregister with the NMC.
The course will support learners to understand the current health and social care context; including exploration of national policy, legislation, and professional expectations that govern contemporary practice. The course will enable learner to reflect upon their professional values and role within modern nursing practice. Students will be expected to reflect upon and critically explore specialist issues and apply their learning, skills, and knowledge to the context of their professional field of practice.
The programme learning outcomes are mapped against the Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses (NMC, 2018), Part 1- Standards framework for nursing and midwifery education, Part 2 Standards for student supervision and assessment, and Part 3 Standards for return to practice programmes.
How You Study
Successful completion of the course will enable you to demonstrate achievement of the NMC Standards for Proficiency and programme outcomes for the relevant part of the register and deem you eligible to re-register with the NMC.
This course takes a blended-learning approach. Lectures will be delivered online and will be able watch them at your own leisure. Seminars, which also take place online, will enable you to discuss ideas raised in your lectures further. There will also be face-to-face mandatory skills sessions to cover topics such as manual handling.
Entry Requirements 2025-26
Entry Requirements
An applicant must have previously been on the Nursing Register and had their registration lapse following a period of three years or more. The School of Health and Care Sciences will check all applicants' prior registration status and conditions of re-entry to the Register as part of the application screening process, to ensure that the applicant is able to successfully return to the Register upon completion of the programme.
Certain conditions which may have been placed on an applicant from remaining on the register may prevent them entry to the programme. This will be reviewed as part of a Fitness to Proceed process. The successful completion of a Return to Practice programme would only enable an applicant to return to the part of the register they were previously on.
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They may be nurses seeking readmission to the register, who have practised for fewer than 750 hours in the previous five years, or 450 hours in the three years before their application for readmission to the register.
Applicants will be asked to provide their NMC PIN as part of the application process.
Satisfactory completion of a Declaration of Suitability Form
Satisfactory clearance from Occupational Health
Satisfactory reference
For more information please contact Programme Leader Kerry Welch be emailing kwelch@lincoln.ac.uk.
How you are assessed
The assessment for this course involves a written reflection on practice experiences using the Nurses and Midwives Council revalidation template, and completion of a practice assessment document.
Both elements will then be considered at an examination board and the Nurses and Midwives Council.
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