Fast Trackin

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Fast Trackin !

• Getting to where you want to be sooner !

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The Fast Track Nursing Course The Graduate
Diploma In Nursing

• Why ?
• Changing nature of healthcare, healthcare
  delivery and nursing

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Changes

• National Health Service needs and resources
• Local healthcare delivery requirements
• The role of the Nurse

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Educational Drivers

• Life-long learning
• Building upon previous experiences
• Recognition of prior
• learning
• Increasing student
• capacity
• Widening participation

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Healthcare delivery

• New types of service and models of care
• Increased emphasis on evidence based practice and
  collaborative working across professions and
  agencies
• Needs practitioners who can adapt an enquiring
  and challenging approach to practice

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Thus

• The Graduate Diploma Programme responds to
  service need to provide capable, competent,
  professional nurses in 2 years 3 months instead
  of 3 years !
• They are Fast Tracked

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The entrant

• Has a first degree
• They are accredited with having achieved
  graduateness
• Their course concentrates on nursing theory and
  practice

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• Have to
• Achieve the same NMC competencies for
  registration
• Complete the same number of hours in clinical
  practice,
• As students undertaking a 3 year programme

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• Their course therefore focuses upon Nursing.its
  practise and theory

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Putting it into action
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Hurdles along the way
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Staff attitude
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Institutional challenges

• Rooms
• Timetables
• Module codes
• Uniforms
• Planning
• Resources

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Learning and Teaching Strategies

• Utilisation of existing resources
• Student led

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The student experience