How RPL Nursing Pathway Can Help You For MSc Nursing Programme Admission

 

The United Kingdom has opened its arm for nursing course aspirants who want to take admission to MSc Nursing Programme. Therefore, nursing professionals from all over the world are trying to do this course to work in the UK after registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The best key to this is the RPL nursing pathway.

Now, you must be thinking about what it is and how it can help in this course. The answers to the questions lie in this blog. So, read it thoroughly.

How RPL Nursing pathway can help you to take admission to MSc Nursing Programme?

Generally, a nurse course is for three years. However, completing your first degree and related care experience within a period of the last five years will make it possible for you to credit against the first year of nurse education.

A condition of beginning the MSc Nursing programme is to submit proof of how your first degree and prior experience harmonize with nursing, an applicant is able to accrue further proof in the time between application and enrollment with the help of a dedicated supervisor when required.

The proof will show that you fufill the same criteria as a student nurse having completed their first year of the BSc Nursing programme. Your RPL will have many clinical proficiencies that are required to be assessed in a care situation and completion of a total of 760 hours worked in a related setting. Of these, 160 hours have to be evidenced before starting the programme. The rest of the 600 hours need to be attained either by means of your previous experience or through further placements in your capacity as a student nurse, before registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

Extra required guidance and support about completing your RPL nursing will be given by expert supervisors where required, after a successful interview.

From where to collect clinical proficiencies and experience? 

There is not a direct answer to this question. Students within the MSc Nursing courses come from different backgrounds and have worked in many different ways with the common public and in care settings. You will, without any doubt, have a tremendous amount of experience which will already fulfill some of the criteria on the RPL evidence document. This is the thing that makes an MSc Nursing course so great, such a wealth of experience in one room.

When you review your RPL document if you find certain skills missing and are not sure where to get them, then you can contact your assigned supervisor to take recommendations from them.

How to show your clinical proficiency achievement?

In an ideal way, you will provide proof of any clinical proficiencies with the support of a registered nurse in the same field of nursing you have decided to apply for (for example, if you are applying to adult nursing, then you will need qualified adult nurse). The nurse has to sign and date your clinical proficiency achievement.

If having not worked with a nurse from the same part of the nursing register, then a line manager, nurse or other healthcare professionals can do this for your clinical proficiency attainment. After that, you will be required to notify your portfolio supervisor, capable of ‘long-arm’ mentor you and countersign the clinical proficiencies.

What if you don’t have 760 hours of experience?

Even if you don’t have 760 hours of experience, you can still apply for the course. Before starting the course, you will be required to have at least 160 hours of experience. It can be developed between application and enrollment if required.

After that, you will need to earn the remaining care experience, either before starting the course or by means of extra student nurse placements in holiday weeks, to a total of 760 hours, before the end of the 2-year course.

You will have to send details of this to the course leader when you have collected the hours. If you don’t complete the 760 hours before the end of the course, then you will not be eligible with the rest of your cohort. Therefore, you are strictly advised to fulfill this need.