Return to Practice (Nursing)

You will develop skills as a reflective practitioner and enhance your ability to effectively use current evidence to inform your practice.

Course content reflects contemporary nursing issues, and includes:

• NMC (2018): Future nurse standards for proficiencies
• NHS reforms - safeguarding
• the Mental Capacity Act 2005
• advances in technology, including medical devices and health informatics
• compassion in practice and dignity in care
• the 6Cs
• equality and diversity
• medicines management
• infection control

As part of this course you will need to complete a placement within either an acute, community or general practice setting.

We do not secure or find clinical placements. To undertake this programme you must be offered an approved placement by the NHS Trust or organisation.

Find more course information with our Return to Practice flyer.

Who is it for?

Who is it for? The Return to Practice Programme is for Nurses who have not met the revalidation requirement and whose registration has lapsed.

Timetable

The programme consists of ten study days, which are held weekly over a period of ten weeks.

Upcoming dates

• Start time 27 May 2021 - 29 July 2021
• Start time 30 September 2021 - 2 December 2021
• Start time 17 November 2021 - 2 February 2022
• Start time 20 January 2022 - 24 March 2022
• Start time 9 March 2022 - 11 May 2022
• Start time 19 May 2022 - 21 July 2022.

Benefits

The Return to Practice Programme has been approved to meet the new standards for Future Nurse Proficiencies (2018) and the Standards for RTP (2019).

This course is worth 30 credits at Level 6 toward eligible programmes.

Credits

This course is worth 30 credits toward eligible programmes.

You will be supported to refresh your study skills, develop your academic writing and plan your future professional and personal development. In practice, you will work closely with a named assessor who will enable you to refresh and develop your practice in either an acute, community or general practice setting.

Read our student profiles to find out why they choose to study Return to Practice Nursing at City, their experiences, and advice for anyone considering this course:

• Dorothy Flatman
• Stephen Frith
• Aileen Keigher

The key takeaway for this course is the development of knowledge and skills that are essential to a return to nursing practice.

You will participate in seminars, workshops, online discussion, and clinical skills updates. You will also complete sixty hours of self-directed learning and complete a minimum of 180 hours depending on how long you had a break in Nursing as follows:

• Break in Nursing up to 4 years – 180 clinical practice hours
• Break in Nursing between 4 to 5 years – 250 clinical practice hours
• Break in Nursing more than 5 years – 300 clinical practice hours

This is also subject to meeting required competencies within a hospital, community or general practice setting.

You will complete a practice portfolio, in which your achievement of practice based competencies will be assessed by your practice assessor. You will also complete a 2,000-word assignment in which you will reflect on your practice and critically analyse skills and competencies.

On successful completion you will be award a Certificate in Return to Nursing.

Credits

This course is worth 30 credits toward eligible programmes.

Current opportunities

Our NHS Partner Trusts offer a variety of both Student Contracts and Salaried Positions for nurses with lapsed registrations to complete the Return to Practice programme (RTP) with City, University of London.

If you are interested in taking this course, further information can be obtained by contacting the RTP Programme Leader, Maria Lynch at Maria.Lynch@city.ac.uk.

Funding

Funding may be available for nurses returning to practice; please visit the Come Back to Nursing website to find out more.

For funding queries please contact Lyndsey Carpenter (Return to Practice Project Manager for Health Education England) on Lyndsey.carpenter@hee.nhs.uk

Course Requirements Include:

• Lapsed NMC registration for UK Nurses
• DBS check and have satisfactory occupational health clearance.
• An approved placement is a requirement to undertake this course, this can be within either an acute, community or general practice setting
• Satisfactory outcomes at joint interview.

English requirements

Students will be required to undertake a literacy and numeracy test.