Do you currently have a certificate, Diploma or Bachelor’s degree in nursing and would like to ‘top up’ to an Honours degree?
This course shares the vision of GMIT to provide life-long learning opportunities for international students through teaching and research. It aims to reflect the changing nature of health care nationally and internationally, and to provide students with the ability to analyse the context in which they provide care and will contribute to the development of knowledge and analytical skills of students, while enhancing their potential action and decision making skills.
It will also provide the basis for lifelong learning. In addition, this course aims to develop specific skills related to the facilitation of health gain and the maintenance of health status. It aims to enhance the graduates’ employability and adaptability, and should be relevant to nursing employers across a variety of health care settings.
This course will enable students to integrate and inter-relate knowledge, skills and attitudes in the areas of management, clinical practice and more generic areas of professional nursing and to apply them to practice. This course draws on the students’ prior learning and encourages further engagement in the process of lifelong learning.
| Course ID | 151827 |
| Course Location | Mayo |
| Course Duration | One year |
| Course Fee | €9,950 |
| Entry Requirements | Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, (or eligible to do so) Or Current registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council of the United Kingdom (or eligible to do so) Or All candidates wishing to apply for the Bachelor of Science in Nursing (Non- EU/EEA Nurses) programme must be registered as a Nurse in their home country and have an international English language testing system (IELTS) proficiency score of 6.5 or equivalent of (In all categories including overall score, listening, reading, writing and speaking). The programme requires candidates to have attained a Level-7 qualification in Nursing, or its equivalent as guided by NARIC (National Academic Recognition Information Centre) Ireland. |
| Career Path | Graduates of this programme will have access to further opportunities in post graduate education and pending registration with The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI)*, employment as nurses with local, national or international healthcare employers. Graduating from this proposed programme will particularly benefit these students in pursuing a clinical induction programme and subsequent registration if they so choose by providing them with advanced critical thinking and evidence based practice skills upon which they can base their clinical practice. |
