Distance learning through the OU-RCN Strategic Alliance
The Open University (OU) and the RCN have joined forces to encourage greater participation in education and training. Between us, we offer a wider range of courses that can make a difference to your career and to those for whom you care.
Our flexible work-based learning fits with busy work and home commitments, provides high levels of learning support and the opportunity to learn as you earn. The OU is recognised as a world leader in supported distance learning.
Our learning opportunities include courses for health care assistants, routes into nursing with our pre-registration nursing programme, a newly designed top-up degree in Nursing Practice for registered nurses, as well as postgraduate level courses and awards. You can also choose courses for personal interest, such as creative writing, digital photography or sport.
Most courses can be studied as stand-alone modules as well as part of an award.
Register as soon as possible for February 2010 courses:
- Exploring practice - In this ‘key’ course in the BSc (Hons) Nursing Practice award you will examine a project theme around your own practice in health or social care, develop an action plan and explore the implications for change and improvement.
- Mentorship and assessment in health and social care settings - If you support and assess learners in practice in health and/or social care settings, this course will help you become a credible, effective, valued mentor.
- Promoting public health: Skills, perspectives and practice - Challenge your own assumptions around public health promotion policies and interventions, and gain the knowledge and confidence to move your everyday actions and practice forward.
- Change, policy and practice - This ‘gateway’ course for our programmes in Advancing Health Care Practice provides scholarly skills and introduces conventions of critical discourse and interprofessional study at postgraduate level.
- Designing health care research - Explore fundamental questions relating to the early stages of research design, and premises about science, research and health care that underpin development of new knowledge.
- Leading health care - Critically analyse practice, examine local health care contexts and plan change, working collaboratively with healthcare colleagues – focusing on the rationale for change and its successful management.
Register by 1 April 2010 for May courses:
- Enhancing the patient experience – This undergraduate course is part of the BSc (Hons) Nursing Practice award and you will explore how the nursing contribution can lead to person-centred, high-quality care that’s unique and dynamic, and how it can make a difference to patient care.
- Dissertation: a practice innovation project or Dissertation: a research project – Chose from one of these courses as the final step in gaining your MSc in Advancing Health Care Practice.
The OU offers more than 500 courses. To find out more, please visit www.openuniversity.co.uk/rcn.
RCN members and staff receive a 10% discount on many OU courses.