Masters.

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knows if you can do a masters immediately after a bachelors degree in nursing?
I eventually want to be a nurse practitioner, I am aware there are NP MSc's but I was wondering if you could do something like Clinical or Medical sciences or something like that and that could also lead to it? Combined with a CPD prescribing course.
Thank you.

Yes, you can go straight into an MSc. Many people do these part time, so do a year of preceptorship and then are funded (at least partially) by their employer. Often they are part of a professional practice MSc.

However, you can't do a prescribing course until you have had some experience as a registered nurse. Starting out as a nurse is stressful enough without the added responsibility of prescribing and therefore isn't possible. From the NMC standards of proficiency for nurse prescribers:

"You must have at least three years’ experience as a practising nurse, midwife or specialist community public health nurse and be deemed competent by your employer to undertake the programme. Of these three years, the year immediately preceding application to the programme must have been in the clinical eld in which you intend to prescribe, eg. neonates, mental health. Part-time workers must have practised for a suf cient period to be deemed competent by their employer"

Hi thanks for your reply. Do you know how you get a preceptorship like can you get this straight away? or do you have to work for a bit because I'd rather try to avoid working first as I would like to get my MSc then get experience x

Hi thanks for your reply. Do you know how you get a preceptorship like can you get this straight away? or do you have to work for a bit because I'd rather try to avoid working first as I would like to get my MSc then get experience x

it does not work like this in Nursing

the vastest majority of post-basic Masters require you to 1. have a job and 2. have some clinicla experience as an RN

there are no accelerated promotion schemes or cheat codes to a Nursing career unless you consider whoring yourself literally and metaphorically to a an abusive manager to be a legitimate career move.

I'm applying for a Nursing course to start in September this year, so this is really useful to know for the future. I had to look up 'preceptorship' - I hadn't come across the term before - so I have a basic idea of what it is. Can you explain how it all works?

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it does not work like this in Nursing

the vastest majority of post-basic Masters require you to 1. have a job and 2. have some clinical experience as an RN

There are no accelerated promotion schemes or cheat codes to a Nursing career unless you consider whoring yourself literally and metaphorically to a an abusive manager to be a legitimate career move.