Sunderland woman among first to graduate from new nursing degree

The first graduates pictured with Marie McKeown, practice placement facilitator, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Jane Douglas, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University.The first graduates pictured with Marie McKeown, practice placement facilitator, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Jane Douglas, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University.
The first graduates pictured with Marie McKeown, practice placement facilitator, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Jane Douglas, Senior Lecturer, Northumbria University.
A Sunderland woman is among the first people to graduate with flying colours on a new full-time work-based nursing degree at a North East university.

Traditionally a three-year qualification, the 18-month nursing course at Northumbria University is aimed at people with a healthcare background.

The first of its kind in the UK, the programme leads to a BSc (Hons) Nursing Studies/Registered Nurse (Adult) degree and is a partnership between Northumbria University, Newcastle, and Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.

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The course involves a mix of classroom-based teaching, simulated clinical skills and hands-on practical experience in hospitals and the community across Northumberland and North Tyneside and, on completion, the students were guaranteed employment at Northumbria Healthcare.

The first ten recruits – made up of Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust staff – began the programme in March 2016.

The opportunity, funded by the trust, was so popular that it received almost six times the number of applications than there were places for, and a second course, with a further 10 recruits began in March 2017.

Katy Crinson, from Sunderland, is one of the newly-qualified nurses who took part in the new degree programme.

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