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Foundation Degree Nursing Associate FdSc
Course Overview - Foundation Degree Nursing Associate FdSc
**Reasons to choose Kingston**
- We are ranked in the top 10 in the UK for General Nursing (The Guardian University Guide 2025).
- This course will enable you to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a Nursing Associate.
- We won two awards at the 2023 Student Nursing Times Awards, including Nursing Associate Trainee of the Year. Pebbles Day won the award for her work supporting individuals with a variety of mental health needs.
- You’ll develop a range of specialist and transferable skills (including medicines management) ...
**Reasons to choose Kingston**<br/>- We are ranked in the top 10 in the UK for General Nursing (The Guardian University Guide 2025).<br/><br/><br/>- This course will enable you to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a Nursing Associate.<br/><br/><br/>- We won two awards at the 2023 Student Nursing Times Awards, including Nursing Associate Trainee of the Year. Pebbles Day won the award for her work supporting individuals with a variety of mental health needs.<br/><br/><br/>- You’ll develop a range of specialist and transferable skills (including medicines management) through clinical placements in a variety of settings. You’ll have the opportunity to gain knowledge and experience in the fields of adult, child, mental health and learning disabilities.<br/><br/><br/>**About this course**<br/>As a nursing associate, you’ll deliver hands-on care to patients. You’ll work alongside healthcare support workers (holding a care certificate) and fully qualified registered nurses, bridging the existing gap between the two roles.<br/><br/>Through a combination of theoretical learning and practice placements, you’ll develop a wide range of specialist and transferable clinical, care and interpersonal skills across all four fields of nursing.<br/><br/>Practice placements will also give you the opportunity to gain a wide range of experiences through exposure to different health and care settings.<br/><br/>Nursing associates will be a key part of the multidisciplinary workforce that’s needed to respond to the <br/>future needs of the public and patients. <br/><br/>**Future Skills**<br/>Embedded within every course curriculum and throughout the whole Kingston experience, Future Skills will play a role in shaping you to become a future-proof graduate, providing you with the skills most valued by employers such as problem-solving, digital competency, and adaptability.<br/><br/>As you progress through your degree, youll learn to navigate, explore and apply these graduate skills, learning to demonstrate and articulate to employers how future skills give you the edge.<br/><br/>At Kingston University, were not just keeping up with change, were creating it.<br/><br/>**Career opportunities**<br/>This course will prepare you to work as a nursing associate and enhance your career in the health and social care sector. You may be able to progress to a <br/>shortened nursing degree course.
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Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
2 Years
Start Date
22/09/2025
Campus
Main Site
Course Address
Yorkon Building
Kingston University
Kingston upon Thames
London
Application Details
Provider Details
Codes/info
Course Code
B745
Institution Code
K84
Points of Entry
Year 1
Entry Requirements
UCAS Tariff
56
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Scottish Higher
D,D,D,D
Achieve a minimum of 56 tariff points achieved from either four Highers or a combination of two Highers offered with two Advanced Highers. Where only Highers have been taken a minimum of (DDDD) are required.
Access to HE Diploma
D:0,M:9,P:36
Achieve 56 UCAS Points from an Access to HE course: this is normally achieved with 45 level 3 credits and 15 level 2 credits of which 9 of the level 3 credits should be at Merit. Other combinations of distinctions and merits to the value of 56 points can also be accepted. GCSE at grade 4 or above (or grade C or above for GCSEs taken before 2017) in English Language and Mathematics or equivalent qualification eg Functional/Key skills level 2 in numeracy and literacy.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
24
Potential to meet the points by not passing all six components of the qualification - normally a Pass at 24 points is required
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
MPP
Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
Leaving Certificate - Higher Level (Ireland) (first awarded in 2017)
GCSE/National 4/National 5
GCSE at grade 4 or above (or grade C or above for GCSEs taken before 2017) in English Language and mathematics or equivalent qualification eg Functional/Key skills level 2 in numeracy and literacy
HNC (BTEC)
May be considered for entry into year 1 of the course. Due to the professional requirements of this course it is unlikely that you would be able to get advanced standing for entry into the second year of the course.
Pearson BTEC Diploma (QCF)
MM
Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
Pearson BTEC Extended Diploma (QCF)
MPP
Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
MM
Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
AS
Can be combined with other level 3 qualifications to achieve 56 points
OCR Cambridge Technical Diploma
MM
Combined with other level 3 qualifications to achieve 56 tariff points Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
Scottish Advanced Higher
D,D
Achieve a minimum of 56 tariff points achieved in either two Advanced Highers or from a combination of one Advanced Higher plus two Highers.
Extended Project
Can be combined with other level 3 qualifications to achieve 56 points
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
D*
Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
OCR Cambridge Technical Introductory Diploma
D*
Combined with other level 3 qualifications to achieve 56 tariff points Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
HND (BTEC)
May be considered for entry into year 1 of the course. Due to the professional requirements of this course it is unlikely that you would be able to get advanced standing for entry into the second year of the course.
Pearson BTEC Certificate (QCF)
Pearson BTEC 90-Credit Diploma (QCF)
DM
Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Certificate (first teaching from September 2016)
OCR Cambridge Technical Certificate
Combined with other level 3 qualifications to achieve 56 tariff points Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Foundation Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
D
Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
OCR Cambridge Technical Foundation Diploma
DM
Combined with other level 3 qualifications to achieve 56 tariff points Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
OCR Cambridge Technical Subsidiary Diploma
DM
Combined with other level 3 qualifications to achieve 56 tariff points Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
OCR Cambridge Technical Extended Certificate
D*
Combined with other level 3 qualifications to achieve 56 tariff points Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
A level
D,E,E
Other A Level combinations possible to achieve 56 points. Minimum of 2 A Levels, can be combined with other Level 3 qualifications eg. AS levels/Extended Project to achieve 56 points Grade combinations below 56 points considered when combined with other Level 3 qualifications including AS and Extended Project to achieve 56 points
T Level
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