Health and Social Care (HSC) Undergraduate Prospectus 2010
BSc (Hons)/PgDip/MSc
Location Location
Southwark and LSBU at Great Ormond Street Havering and Whipps Cross campuses
BSc (Hons)
Professional Practice: Children’s
NHS Trust
Duration
Midwifery (18 month pathway)
Duration 18 months (full-time)
Nursing
2–6 years
Start date
Mode of study September or March
Part-time
Number of places
Start date Places commissioned by Health Authority.
Units have varied start times – see Continuing Numbers TBC
Health and Social Car Health and Social Car
Course description Career opportunities
Professional Development Prospectus
Course description the care of low risk women. The
The staff in the Department of Employment prospects are excellent
Simple timetable information
This programme is for qualified contribution that midwives make
Number of places Full-time only, 50% Theory and 50% Practice
Children’s Nursing all have links with with students gaining contemporary
Variable dependant on units undertaken
registered adult nurses who wish to both public and women’s health
clinical/practice areas and the students knowledge and skills which make
How to apply
to further develop their professional agendas is integral to the educational
and staff benefit from a number of joint them ‘fit for purpose’.
Simple timetable info Apply online at www.jobs.nhs.uk
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knowledge and skills to be placed programme. The potential for selective
Part-time For informal enquiries please call:
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(HSC)
appointments with children’s specialist on the NMC professional register and emerging roles with specialised
(HSC)
Evelyn Collison
units in a range of settings, a well as a Typical background of applicant
How to apply Admissions Tutor – 020 7815 5922
and to work as midwives. midwifery skills and inter professional
tertiary children’s hospital. Students are from a range of
Direct to LSBU
collaboration is recognised.
LSBU code
Professional backgrounds working
LSBU code S1263
The aim of this course is to produce
The portfolio of pathways focussing on in children’s services, in primary care,
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midwifery practitioners who are fit Career opportunities
children and young people is designed the community, hospice and hospital
Course contact
for practice, fit for purpose and fit for On completion of the course the
Course contacts Pene Cook
to foster a purposeful and child-centred settings.
Maire Horstman Principal Lecturer cookpj@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 5923
award. The course reflects a radical new majority of students remain within the
approach that makes a significant
Horstmm@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 8407
agenda in midwifery to meet the needs sponsored Trust. Former students have
impact to children’s services and student Additional notes
Sue Mullaney, Head of Department Non-standard entry requirements
of women and the rapidly changing become specialist midwives in areas
Sue.mullaney@lsbu.ac.uk – 020 7815 8419 Applicants must be registered general nurses
career satisfaction. Units are delivered The course framework offers a flexible
Course administrator and information on CPD (adult)
health service, and has been designed including teenage pregnancy, HIV,
as standalone at both undergraduate approach to the sequence and time
prospectus:
in partnership with health care providers and Smoking Cessation Counselling,
and Master’s level and students may frame in which units can be taken. This
Kerry Shewan Typical offer
and commissioners. The main focus of whilst others have gone on to work in
020 7815 8024 160 UCAS Tariff points
access a number of units within the is negotiated on an individual basis with the course is the promotion of normality Children’s Centres or become consultant
children’s nursing portfolio. In keeping the pathway advisors. Please see the
Course units Course units
i.e. the framing of childbirth as a normal midwives.
with a philosophy of inter-professional Continuing Professional Development
Year 1–6 Phase 1, Year 1
physiological process which the majority
– Specialist pathway units – The Art and Science of Midwifery
working, a number of units are prospectus for further details (contact
– Optional units – A Social Model for Childbearing and Midwifery
of women will undergo in their lifetime. Career opportunities for midwives
designed to meet the education needs Kerry Shewan on 020 7815 8024).
Year 2–6 – Practice-based Assessment
The course also acknowledges that a are varied and include, careers in
of the inter-professional team.
– Specialist units Phase 2, Year 1
number of women have more complex education (practice development
– Optional units – Complex Needs in Childbirth
For full entry requirements see pages
– Research unit – The Compromised Neonate
needs where technological help will midwife, midwifery lecturer or lecturer
252 to 253.
Year 3–6 – Practice-based Assessment
be needed. practitioner), or careers in research
– Integrated study Phase 3, Year 2
and management.
The framework offers a flexible approach to the – Managing and Empowering in Maternity Care
sequence and time frame in which units can be – Independent Midwifery Studies
Students are expected to achieve the
taken this is negotiated with individual students – Towards Clinical Freedom, Autonomy and
theoretical and practice standards Progression routes
and pathway advisors. See CPD prospectus for Accountability (Practice Assessment)
stipulated by the Nursing and Midwifery to postgraduate study
more details.
Units with a specific clinical focus are available
Council (NMC) to enable them to Completion of the BSc (Hons) Midwifery
and include:
perform the ‘Activities of a Midwife’ course provides the credits required for
– Adolescent Care
(NMC 2004) within the context of progression to Masters level studies.
– Palliative Care
– Primary care
promoting normality, using preventative
– Childhood Cancer Nursing
measures, detecting complications, Professional contacts/industry links
– Children’s Neuroscience Nursing
accessing appropriate assistance and The programme has been jointly
– Neonatal Nursing
– Paediatric Cardiac Critical Care Nursing
carrying out emergency measures validated by LSBU and the Nursing and
– Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing
in the absence of medical aid. Midwifery Council. On completion of
Awards with a specific clinical focus are available
the course, students are eligible to be
and include (subject to validation):
– Adolescent Care
In the final phase of the course, place on the NMC professional register.
– Palliative Care
students are given the opportunity
– Primary Care
to do one weeks rostered service to For full entry requirements see pages
– Childhood Cancer Nursing
– Children’s Neuroscience Nursing
develop their practical skills in relation 252 to 253.
– Neonatal Nursing
to being the lead professional in
– Paediatric Cardiac Critical Care Nursing
– Paediatric Intensive Care Nursing
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