- Make the move into a professional healthcare career About Your Access to Higher Education Diploma (Midwifery) There are so many interesting and meaningful roles in healthcare, from
Doctors to Dentists, Nurses to Midwives and more. Each plays an important part
in helping people stay healthy, whether it’s by improving their physical or
mental well-being. Healthcare courses represent the first steps towards
achieving these career goals.
- Gain the
equivalent of three A Levels
- A popular way to meet university entry
requirements
- Flexible learning; study when it suits, at your pace
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Complete your healthcare course over 24 months
- Various payment methods
available
- 100% online learning
- No exams
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Access to Health Science Professions – Online
Level 3 - Advanced
Access to Health Science Professions – Online
Looking to change your career? Here you can gain the required skills and
knowledge to study health care at university. If you’re considering a healthcare career but aren’t set on which area to
focus on just yet, an Access to Higher Education Diploma (Healthcare
Professionals) is the ideal course to help you get started. It can help you
study many areas of healthcare at degree level. Course modules covered:
Become an important part in
helping people stay healthy, whether it’s by improving their physical or mental
well-being.
Many careers in the healthcare sector require you to have
studied a degree specific to the area of work you want to go into. This often
leaves people feeling their healthcare related career is out of reach if they
don’t have the traditional qualifications to meet university entry
requirements.
Unit 3: Health and Well-being
Unit 4: Cell
Biology
Unit 5: The History of the National Health Service
Unit 6: Human
Nutrition & The Digestive System
Unit 7: The Roles & Responsibilities
of the Registered Nurse
Unit 8: Introduction to Psychology
Unit 9: The
Human Endocrine & Nervous System
Unit 10: Social Factors in Health and
Social Care
Unit 11: Understanding Dementia
Unit 12: The Human Muscular
and Skeletal System
Unit 13: Classification and Use of Social Drugs and
Medicines
Unit 14: Mental Health and Illness
Unit 15: Human
Immunity
Unit 16: Understanding Poverty
Unit 17: Health Promotion
Unit
18: Human Disease & Prevention
Unit 19: Equality and Diversity within
Healthcare
To study this Access course you should hold GSCEs in Maths or English at grade C/4 or above. Most universities will require you to have these qualifications upon application, so if you want to study for an Access to Higher Education Diploma, you should either hold these GCSEs
You have up to two years to complete this course. So, you can study from the comfort of home and around your existing commitments.A range of units make up this online healthcare course, with an assignment being issued at the end of each. You will submit your work to your tutor for marking and tailored feedback.To successfully achieve this Access to Higher Education Diploma you will need 60 credits in total. The credits are split into the following two categories: Graded – 45 credits come from graded units, which focus on the academic subject / Ungraded – 15 credits come from ungraded units, such as writing and study skills
Depending on your interests, and the acceptance of Access to Higher Education Diplomas as part of the entry requirements, you could study degrees in: Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Nursing, Counselling or Psychotherapy.