2. Nursing Presentation
Colin Wheeldon, Carol Wylie , Kate Kilgallon,
Stella Leen, Simon Cripps, Angela Hall & Dom Wake
Admissions Tutors

3. Aims of Presentation
• Provide an overview of the Pre-registration
Nursing Programmes
• Outline the entry requirements and selection
process
• Answer questions

4. Pre-Registration Nursing Programmes
BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies:
•Adult
•Children’s
•Mental Health
•Learning Disabilities

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Caring for adults of all ages
Hospital setting
Medicine
Surgery
Care of older people
Critical care
Community Setting
Primary care
Community Nursing
Nursing Homes
Dementia care/services
Walk-in / urgent care centres
Involves multi-agency working

6. Children’s Nursing
• Is about caring for a
child whether ill or
healthy
• It encompasses the
whole family and
promotes familycentred care
• Hospital and
community setting

7. Mental Health Nursing
• A discipline that enables people to reach and maintain their
mental health and social goals in order to achieve their
optimum quality of life
• Involves collaborative working with service users (and their
families where appropriate) in a partnership approach
• Work with children, working age adults and the older
person
• In residential units, wards, clients’ homes and in the
community
• Involves effective working with other agencies (eg. Social
Services)

8. Learning Disabilities Nursing
• You will make a specialised contribution to the lives of
people with learning disabilities across the age spectrum
& in a range of settings
• You will assist individuals with all aspects of their lives (eg
health, social, employment) to enable them to achieve
optimum health and social wellbeing
• Support children, adults and older people with complex
needs (eg autism, challenging behaviour, multiple
disabilities, mental health problems & dementia)
• Lead improvements in both specialist and mainstream
services for people with learning disabilities & their
families/carers

9. Qualities of a Good Nurse....?
• Caring & compassion
• Interpersonal &
Communication skills
• Enjoy working with
people
• Able to empathise
• Non-judgemental
• Well organised
• Academic ability
• Willing to learn

10. Academic Entry Requirements
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Applicants must apply through UCAS
• Minimum of 240 UCAS tariff points....OR
• Equivalent qualifications (e.g. QAA-recognised Access Course)
• Plus GCSE passes at grade C or above in English Language and
Mathematics / equivalent qualifications (eg Level 2 Functional
Skills in Communication and Numeracy)

11. Other Requirements
• Success at interview
• Enhanced Criminal Records Bureau Clearance
• Satisfactory workplace risk assessment
• Good references

12. Bursaries
• Non means tested Grant - £1000 per year
• Means tested bursary
• Non means tested Maintenance Loan
• Final amount dependent on individual
circumstances

13. What will you study?
• Range of modules undertaken each year
• Year 1 – Focuses on development of fundamental knowledge & skills
required to deliver quality patient care in all fields of nursing (care,
compassion & communication, human development/functioning across
the age continuum, decision-making, improving health & well being,
professional nursing practice – mostly core modules)
• Year 2 – Focuses on field of nursing practice. Modules further develop
decision-making skills, explore use of evidence to promote best
practice/nursing care, service provision & user/carer experience
• Year 3 – Modules facilitate development of leadership skills, ability to
effectively manage patient care & improve health/social care practice
within field of nursing
• Each year – 50% of time spent in practice
• You will gain some practice experience of other fields of nursing

14. Practice Placements
• 5000+ Placements across the region – audited
to ensure suitability
• Placement could be anywhere within
university’s placement circuit
• Shifts – must experience 24 hour / 7 days per
week care

15. Location of Placements

16. Student Support
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Excellent Academic and placement support
Personal Tutors
Module Lecturers
Practice Mentors
Learning Hub
Student Services Department
Disability Co-ordinator
All information (timetables, module guides & learning
materials) available electronically

17. The Application Process
• Via UCAS
• Closes January 15th
• Late applications only considered if places
available
• Applications stamped and processed in date
order

18. The Selection Process
• All applicants undergo a
standardised selection
process prior to being
made a conditional offer:
• Short listing
• Interview

19. Short Listing
Criteria used by admissions tutors:
• Application form is fully completed
• Eligibility for DH bursary
• Academic entry requirements
• Maths/English
• Studied within last 5 years
• Personal statement
• References

20. Personal Statement
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Must be supportive of chosen
nursing programme
What generated your interest in
the field of nursing
Insight into the programme
applied for and some of the
demands to be faced
How past study has prepared you
Relevant work or life experience
and how it has prepared you for
the professional programme
Interests / hobbies
What have you got to offer in
terms of personal qualities and
skills

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Verbal communication
Non verbal communication
Knowledge of chosen field of nursing
Demands of nursing
Enthusiasm for nursing and becoming a nurse
A future career plan
Potential to become a “professional”

22. Testing
• Literacy
• Numeracy

23. Offers
All offers are made via the UCAS site and are subject
to the following:
• Police vetting through the Criminal Records Bureau
(CRB)
• Satisfactory workplace Risk Assessment
• Good academic and character references

24. Any Questions?
Thank you
For further information on specific
programmes/fields of nursing
Please visit our web site:
http://www.tees.ac.uk