Venues

East End Campus, Easterhouse Campus

Content

Designed to enable adults with no formal qualifications to prepare, in one year, for entry into a degree course in Nursing, or HNC Healthcare or in some cases HNC Social Care.

Course units include:

Values and Principles in Care; Social influences; Stress and stress Management; Human Development and behaviour; The Human Body; Mental Health and Mental Illness; First aid; HIV Infection; Core skills such as Communications Higher, and Numeracy.

Entry Requirements

No formal entry requirements. however applicants should preferably have a gap in their formal education (3 or 5 years). You must be highly motivated and conscientious. Entry by informal interview and a short written exercise.

You will require a satisfactory criminal record check from Disclosure Scotland to show that you are suitable for this type of course. Contact Disclosure Scotland for details on the type you would need.

Progression Routes

This course is designed to enable adults with no formal qualifications to prepare, in one year, for entry for entry into a degree course in Nursing, or HNC Healthcare or in some cases HNC Social Care.