Progress in your career by improving your qualifications
The Open University (OU) and the RCN have joined forces to encourage greater participation in education and training.
Our flexible work-based learning fits with busy work and home commitments, provides high levels of learning support and the opportunity to earn as you learn.
Our learning opportunities include courses for health care assistants, routes into nursing with our pre-registration nursing programme, to learning beyond registration at degree and postgraduate level, including CPD.
Register by 01 August 2009 for the following courses starting in September 2009.
- Nursing: people, policy and practice - the first course for all three pathways of the BSc (Hons) Nursing Practice and founded on the values of person-centred care.
- Enhancing child health nursing practice - explore the values that underpin children's nursing practice.
- Maximising older people's potential - explore models of health and social care that can be used to develop nursing practice so that older people can continue to lead engaged and fulfilled lives.
- Developing leadership - acknowledge and develop your professional leadership skills.
- Change, policy and practice - the 'gateway' course for the postgraduate programmes in Advancing Healthcare Practice equips you with the scholarly skills required to understand health care agendas, policies and priorities as key contexts of practice.
- Innovating in practice - explore ways in which groups can work together to improve practice, advance healthcare delivery and help ensure that services address the needs of individual clients or communities.
- Developing skills for practice - focus on the critical investigation, clarification and development of a practice skill of your choice.
- Conducting health care research - the second of two courses that will prepare you to be an ethical and effective health care researcher.
- Dissertation: a research project - This one-year research project completes the Masters in Advancing Healthcare Practice, drawing on preparation and skills developed in the two research courses Designing health care research and Conducting health care research.
- Dissertation: a practice innovation project - This one-year project will enable you to use the skills you have developed during your postgraduate studies of Developing skills for practice, Leading health care and Innovating in practice.
The Open University offers more than 500 courses. To find out more, please visit the Open University's website (www.openuniversity.co.uk/rcn).
RCN members and staff receive a 10% discount on many OU courses.