{"id":378,"date":"2025-01-29T09:58:47","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T09:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/future-nurse\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T09:18:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T09:18:48","slug":"future-nurse","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/health-care-support-workers\/education-and-career-pathways\/future-nurse\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Nurse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Health Care Support Worker Future Nurse Career Pathways<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Direct Entry Nursing Degree<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>APPLICANT:<br><\/strong>Anyone with the relevant qualifications can apply directly to university.<br>Time: 3 to 4 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENTRY:<br><\/strong>Varies usually 3 Highers at Grade C or SCQF level 6 plus National 5 English &amp; Maths or equivalent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Various Universities offer nursing degrees:<\/strong><br>Some examples below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qmu.ac.uk\/schools-and-divisions\/nursing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.qmu.ac.uk\/schools-and-divisions\/nursing\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.napier.ac.uk\/courses\/study-areas\/nursing-and-midwifery\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.napier.ac.uk\/courses\/study-areas\/nursing-and-midwifery<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/health\/subject-areas\/nursing-studies\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.ed.ac.uk\/health\/subject-areas\/nursing-studies<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Higher National Certificate (HNC) Healthcare Practice (Endorsed Route)<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>APPLICANT:<br><\/strong>Healthcare Support Workers employed within NHS Lothian.<br>Time: Full Time 1 year\/ Part Time 2 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENTRY:<br><\/strong>SCQF level 6 such as NPA, SVQ2 or equivalent. IELTS 5.5<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Enables Progression into 2nd year of Pre Registration Nursing Programme (Napier University)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full time course must be contracted to work minimum of 35 hrs a week<br>Part Time course must be contracted to work minimum of 19 hrs a week<br>Email: <a href=\"mailto:HNC.Team@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk\">HNC.Team@nhslothian.scot.nhs.uk<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Higher National Certificate (HNC) Healthcare Practice (Non Endorsed) Pilot<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>APPLICANT:<br><\/strong>For anyone not employed by NHS Lothian.<br>Recruited into Healthcare support worker posts for 11.5hrs a week.<br>To achieve minimum of 288 clinical hours over the time of the programme.<br>Time: 1 year<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENTRY:<br><\/strong>National 5 in Maths and Biology or equivalent plus 3 others, 2 Highers including English.<br>English Proficiency Requirements<br>ILETS 5.5, be aware that university ILETS requirements may be higher.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entry to a nursing degree or other health related programmes.<br>3 days a week college with one day a week clinical placement(11.5hrs)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edinburghcollege.ac.uk\/courses\/browse\/healthcare-practice-hnc-hw1hnhpa25\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.edinburghcollege.ac.uk\/courses\/browse\/healthcare-practice-hnc-hw1hnhpa25<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.west-lothian.ac.uk\/courses\/course-list\/hnc-healthcare-practice\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">www.west-lothian.ac.uk\/courses\/course-list\/hnc-healthcare-practice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Open University BSc Honours Programme<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>APPLICANT:<\/strong><br>Healthcare Support Workers employed within NHS Lothian.<br>Time: 4 years part time<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>ENTRY:<\/strong><br>Work minimum 26 hours a week<br>SCQF Level 5 English &amp; Maths\/equivalent<br>Work in an approved practice learning environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Undertaking nursing degree while employed<br>Online learning with clinical placements<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Health Care Support Worker Future Nurse Career Pathways Direct Entry Nursing Degree APPLICANT:Anyone with the relevant qualifications can apply directly to university.Time: 3 to 4 years ENTRY:Varies usually 3 Highers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":377,"menu_order":7,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/widewidth.php","meta":{"_searchwp_excluded":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-378","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"rttpg_featured_image_url":null,"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"davidmcbain","author_link":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/author\/davidmcbain\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":false,"rttpg_excerpt":"Health Care Support Worker Future Nurse Career Pathways Direct Entry Nursing Degree APPLICANT:Anyone with the relevant qualifications can apply directly to university.Time: 3 to 4 years ENTRY:Varies usually 3 Highers","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378\/revisions\/669"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staff.nhslothian.scot\/cet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}