Nursing and Allied Health Professions Foundation Year 2021/22 entry
Overview
This course is designed to give you the skills and knowledge required to prepare you for a rewarding career in a number of healthcare professions.
You will understand the key contemporary issues relating to the roles of health professionals, including nurses, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, dietitians, paramedics and operating department practitioners alongside the skills required to progress within higher education.
You will examine the importance of the professional values, standards and working practices required to support patient-centred care and support. This course will provide you with a level of academic and develop your self-confidence that will aid your transition to a relevant degree course and then the workplace.
Why you should study this course
Coventry University is ranked top in the Midlands for Nursing and Midwifery in the Guardian University Guide 2021. You will be taught by staff with a range of expertise across a number of health professions who will use their insight and experience to give you an understanding of the wide range of healthcare roles available.
On successful completion of this course you will be well prepared to start a degree course in Nursing or Allied Health Professions.
All successful students on this course are guaranteed an interview for degree courses in nursing and allied health profession courses at Coventry University, subject to completing your application before the UCAS January deadline. The grade requirements may vary by course, see individual course pages for further details.
You will be given an opportunity to begin to develop the skills and competences that relate to the successful study of the Health Professions and their regulatory bodies i.e. the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and the Health and Care Professionals Council (HCPC).
After successful completion of the course, if you want to make an application to any nursing and allied health professional courses offered at Coventry University, then you will be supported in making your application.
Throughout this course you will be encouraged to develop your level 2 Literacy and Numeracy application to the vocational setting in order to meet the entry requirements of your chosen degree course.
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What our course director says...
This Foundation year course is a great opportunity to be fully prepared, not only academically but also professionally, for the exciting challenge of further study in the healthcare professions. It is an excellent pathway to the many courses on offer at Coventry University and will prepare you for this transition. This is a great time to be starting your career in the healthcare professions and this course will be the springboard for this.
Course information
This course is designed to give you the skills and knowledge required to prepare you for a rewarding career in a number of healthcare professions.
Course Specification
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Modules
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Facilities
You will have the opportunity to use virtual reality teaching and learning and simulated, hands-on learning to experience the roles within Nursing and Allied Health Professions in addition to experiencing clinical insight days and access to guest speakers from the vast health care professions you might want to consider. You will be encouraged to apply digital literacy through the use of technology during taught sessions and practice assessment activities. This will prepare you for the exciting developments in the current world of Technology Enabled Care Service (TECS).
You will receive approximately 18 hours of guided learning per week. This will be a combination of face-to-face teaching and online, blended learning support. There will also be smaller group tutorials every week.
You will be able to critique and evaluate given scenarios and insights relating the health professions and make recommendations to influence decision making and increase your professional awareness.
The inclusion of clinical insight days, virtual simulation experiences and the awareness of Technology Enhanced Care Services (TECS) will equip you with the necessary capacity to gain an accurate insight into the demands of your preferred profession.
As an innovative and enterprising institution, the University may seek to utilise emerging technologies within the student experience. For all courses (whether on-campus, blended, or distance learning), the University may deliver certain contact hours and assessments via online technologies and methods.
Assessments have been designed to reflect those that you will be able to develop and use within your future role within the health professions e.g. a structured report, a professional debate and poster presentation. In addition your assessments will prepare you for the interview process (values based recruitment) required for progression onto further study in the health professions.
You will be assessed using:
- Individual Reports
- Individual Presentations
- Reflective Summary
- Patient Resource
- Numeracy Test
- Academic Poster
- Values Based Interview
What our course director says...
This Foundation year course is a great opportunity to be fully prepared, not only academically but also professionally, for the exciting challenge of further study in the healthcare professions. It is an excellent pathway to the many courses on offer at Coventry University and will prepare you for this transition. This is a great time to be starting your career in the healthcare professions and this course will be the springboard for this.
Entry Requirements
CU Scarborough has assessed that you can achieve the required grades and we have demonstrated this belief by making you an offer. This is our commitment to you so then we ask that you reciprocate this commitment by selecting us as your ‘firm’ choice and activating your offer.
We will consider other qualifications for a pre-result unconditional offer if you have an appropriate proven performance at GCSE (or equivalent) level and predicted grades in line with grades that we expect to see at A-level. Other qualifications that we may consider for a pre-result unconditional offer include: The International Baccalaureate Diploma, BTEC Level 3 qualifications, Cambridge Pre-U and combinations of qualifications (e.g. BTECS plus A-levels).
An unconditional offer is what it says it is. So, if you don’t meet your predictions then your place is still guaranteed. However, we would hope and expect that you continue to work hard to make the most of your potential and be best prepared to study at university level.
No, the unconditional offer is only available to those who will take up their place in the year for which they applied.
If you don’t meet the entry requirements for this course, we have a number of programmes which upon completion, automatically qualifies you onto a place on this degree course, such as Foundation Years or Access to Higher Education Diplomas.
What our course director says...
This Foundation year course is a great opportunity to be fully prepared, not only academically but also professionally, for the exciting challenge of further study in the healthcare professions. It is an excellent pathway to the many courses on offer at Coventry University and will prepare you for this transition. This is a great time to be starting your career in the healthcare professions and this course will be the springboard for this.
Tuition Fees
We pride ourselves on offering competitive tuition fees which we review on an annual basis. Course fees are calculated on the basis of what it costs to teach each course and we aim for total financial transparency.
Fees & Funding
We price our courses competitively in an attempt to make higher education accessible for a wide range of people. Your tuition fees will cover all of your classes, online tutorials, some of the learning materials and access to our Library & Learning Services.
Funding
As a full-time or part-time student resident in the UK or EU, you can apply for a loan to cover the cost of your tuition fees at CU Coventry from Student Finance England.
What our course director says...
This Foundation year course is a great opportunity to be fully prepared, not only academically but also professionally, for the exciting challenge of further study in the healthcare professions. It is an excellent pathway to the many courses on offer at Coventry University and will prepare you for this transition. This is a great time to be starting your career in the healthcare professions and this course will be the springboard for this.
Career prospects
As the course is designed specifically to prepare you for roles in healthcare you will develop the skills and knowledge valued by employers in this field. In addition to practical and theoretical understanding of health professional roles you will also explore the importance of attributes such as care and compassion and develop an understanding of the expectation of healthcare professionals. This will be supported by developing teamwork, resilience and effective communication approaches that are essential to healthcare roles.
The Foundation course (subject to successful completion and meeting specific entrance criteria, i.e. values based interview) allows progression to the following range of nursing and health degrees at Coventry University Group:
- Adult Nursing BSc (Hons)
- Adult Nursing Blended Learning BSc (Hons)
- Children and Young People's Nursing BSc (Hons)
- Early Childhood Development & Learning BA (Hons)
- Food Safety, Inspection and Control BSc (Hons)
- Food Science BSc (Hons)
- Health & Social Care BA (Hons)
- Health & Wellbeing Practice BA (Hons)
- Learning Disabilities Nursing BSc (Hons)
- Mental Health Nursing BSc (Hons)
- Midwifery BSc (Hons)
- Nursing Associate FdSc
- Nutrition and Health BSc (Hons)
- Occupational Therapy BSc (Hons)
- Operating Department Practice DipHE and BSc (Hons)
- Paramedic Science BSc (Hons)
- Public Health BSc (Hons)
- Public Health & Community Studies BA (Hons)
Certain courses provide registration with professional bodies and enable you to practice as a registered healthcare professional. Please see the course page for more details.
Our graduates from these degree courses work in a range of roles in both the NHS and private sector. They make a positive contribution to the quality of life of their patients, often at very difficult moments.
What our course director says...
This Foundation year course is a great opportunity to be fully prepared, not only academically but also professionally, for the exciting challenge of further study in the healthcare professions. It is an excellent pathway to the many courses on offer at Coventry University and will prepare you for this transition. This is a great time to be starting your career in the healthcare professions and this course will be the springboard for this.
Disclaimer
The tuition fee for the course that is stated on the course webpage and in the prospectus for the first year of study will apply. We will review tuition fees each year. For UK and EU students, if Parliament permit an increase in tuition fees, we may increase fees for each subsequent year of study in line with any such changes. Note that any increase is expected to be in line with inflation. Following the UK’s planned exit from the European Union, EU students should be aware that there may be a change to UK laws following the UK’s exit, this may change their student status, their eligibility to study part time, and/or their eligibility for student finance. We will act in accordance with the UK’s laws in force in relation to student tuition fees and finance at that time. For international students, we may increase fees for each subsequent year of study but such increases will be no more than 5% above inflation.