RPL Mapping Tool for MSc Nursing: Competency and Hour Accreditation

This document outlines an RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) Mapping Tool designed for individuals seeking admission to an accelerated MSc Nursing (pre-registration) program. It focuses on mapping prior learning, both theoretical and practical, against the course's learning outcomes and competencies. The tool allows applicants to demonstrate how their previous qualifications, such as an ATHE Level 7 Diploma in Health and Social Care or a Diploma in Adult Nursing, align with the requirements of the MSc Nursing program. Applicants need to provide evidence, like course documents and practice-based assessments, to support their claims of achieving the module learning outcomes. The document includes sections for summarizing evidence of relevant hours accrued through prior learning, mapping NMC Future Nurse platform statements of proficiency, and demonstrating the application of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values in practice. Successful completion of the mapping exercise, demonstrating a minimum of 500 hours of relevant academic study and 500 hours of relevant practice, is crucial for accessing the MSc Nursing course. The completed RPL Mapping Tool needs to be signed off by a healthcare professional to verify the applicant's prior learning.

RPL Mapping Tool – MSc Nursing (pre-registration) – All fields.
This document is designed to enable you to RPL 500 hours of theory and practice against our BSc Nursing course,
to enable you to access our accelerated MSc Nursing. The maximum amount of RPL permitted for any student
accessing a nursing course is 50% (or 1150 hours of theory and 1150 hours of practice).
In order to apply for accreditation with these stages (or part thereof), apprentices must provide evidence of the
prior achievement of the module Learning Outcomes and related competencies outlined in the document below.
The required evidence is likely to be in the form of course documents and Practice-Based Assessment Documents,
but can be any relevant evidence that you can provide.
Please return the completed RPL Mapping Tool to
Name of Applicant
Apprentice ID number
Module(s) or stage of
programme with
which accreditation is
requested
MSc Nursing (pre-registration)
Previous
relevant
qualifications
ATHE Level 7 Diploma in Health and social Care
Other relevant Prior Diploma in Adult Nursing

Learning to be
considered

Hours of Study
In order to be successfully access the MSc Nursing course, you must demonstrate
minimum of 500 hours of relevant academic study and 500 hours of relevant
practice
Hours of Study on BSc Programme Summary of evidence of relevant hours accrued
through prior learning
500 hours theory
1800
500 hours practice
13,650

NMC Future Nurse platform statements of proficiency to demonstrate recognition of
prior learning against
Proficiency statement
Evidence provided to demonstrate achievement Achieved
Yes/No
1.4 demonstrate an understanding of, and the ability
to challenge, discriminatory behaviour
Whatever task I am doing, I always follow NMC code of conduct, NHS values
and trust values. Patient safety is key and I always make sure that I always treat
people with kindness, compassion and respect. As a health care professional, I am
an advocate of my patients, I will always make sure if there is any discriminatory
behavior towards patients, staffs, visitors or anybody else I will always raise the
concern I would challenge those behavior and I will also report it to the senior
member or the related department as soon as possible to stop it happening.
Yes
1.6 understand the professional responsibility to
adopt a healthy lifestyle to maintain the level of
personal fitness and wellbeing required to meet
people’s needs for mental and physical care
Health education is very important. As a nurse we are a role model for the
patients and the whole community. Frist of all adopting a healthy life style is very
important for the nurses. The health promotion is very important. Nurse should
always educate patients regarding the health promotion. For example, as a nurse,
we should always give advice to people about importance of good diet, regular
exercise, impact of smoking. A good advice from a health care professional can
significantly help patients to adopt healthy life style to maintain the level of
personal fitness and wellbeing This is one of our professional responsibility.
Yes
1.7 demonstrate an understanding of research
methods, ethics and governance in order to
critically analyse, safely use, share and apply
research findings to promote and inform best
Nursing practices are effectively done by usage of best research methods,
ethics and governance in order to critically develop safety usage,
application of methods for promoting and informing of best nursing
practice methods. Usage of best nursing practices, and governance of best

nursing practice safety and research findings goals enables ethical standards to be worked
on and develop best health oriented services.
1.8 demonstrate the knowledge, skills and ability to
think critically when applying evidence and drawing
on experience to make evidence informed decisions
in all situations
Knowledge, skills and ability to critically analyze evidence on experiences
in making informed decisions among all situations, enables to productively
enhance working expertise. Nursing skills plays crucial role, in improvising
professional healthcare services availability among patients and to
evidently enhance knowledge oriented growth.
1.9 understand the need to base all decisions
regarding care and interventions on people’s needs
and preferences, recognising and addressing any
personal and external factors that may unduly
influence their decisions
The need to base all decisions regarding care and interventions on people
need and preferences, enables to develop specific recognized preference for
imperative growth in personal and external factors.
1.10 demonstrate resilience and emotional
intelligence and be capable of explaining the
rationale that influences their judgments and
decisions in routine, complex and challenging
situations
Practices and emotional intelligence enables to capable explanation of
rationale within influences, within judgements and decisions as per
effective routine for developing rapport. Also challenging situations,
enhances functional working pace to be worked on primitively as per
untapped goals for optimizing rationale in various situational aspects.

1.12 demonstrate the skills and abilities
required to support people at all stages of life
who are emotionally or physically vulnerable
Abilities such as patience, skillful training capabilities and willful working
vision enables to enhance support for people who are emotional or physically
vulnerable regarding various situations. Healthcare skills, abilities correlate rise
on various stages for people where physical and vulnerable people have to be
treated with best skills and abilities.
1.13 demonstrate the skills and abilities
required to develop, manage and maintain
appropriate relationships with people, their
families, carers and colleagues
To maintain corporate relationships with people, families and career, colleagues
skill and abilities plays crucial role to enhance functional vision for bringing
relationship being developed among careers and colleagues.
1.15 demonstrate the numeracy, literacy,
digital and technological skills required to
meet the needs of people in their care to
ensure safe and effective nursing practice
Numeracy, literacy, digital and technological skills are highly effective to meet
needs of people in care delivery to ensure safe and effective nursing practices
variedly. All needs of people can be surely and effectively met, by mitigating
nursing practices with effective knowledge and competent engagement.
1.18 demonstrate the knowledge and
confidence to contribute effectively and
proactively in an interdisciplinary team
Knowledge and confidence has strong influence in contribution towards
proactive in disciplinary team development, where this will fundamentally
improvise extended development.
NMC code represents professional standards that nurse and healthcare associates
must adhere to for practicing specific safety management and professionalism to
enhance trusts aspects among patient’s healthcare services. Knowledge and
confidence.
NHS 6cs are compassion, competence, communication, courage and
commitment which enables nurses to serve medical and healthcare principles
effective principles for improved on functioning.

2.3 understand the factors that may lead to
inequalities in health outcomes
Factors that may lead to inequalities health outcomes, such as specific factors
based on varied aspects such as education, employment status, income level,
gender and ethnicity. Improper health outcomes delivery, leads rise on unequal
health services delivery scenarios among patients.
3.1 demonstrate and apply knowledge of
human development from conception to death
when undertaking full and accurate person-
centred nursing assessments and developing
appropriate care plans
Application of human development from conception to death, where accurate
person centered nursing assessment car plans have to be worked on. Person
centered nursing assessment aims to adhere towards significance new care plans,
for integrating untapped productive goals.
3.2 demonstrate and apply knowledge of body
systems and homeostasis, human anatomy and
physiology, biology, genomics, pharmacology
and social and behavioural sciences when
undertaking full and accurate person-centred
nursing assessments and developing
appropriate care plans
Body systems and homeostasis, human anatomy and physiology, along with
biology and pharmacology, social and behavioral sciences plays essential role
when developing full and accurate person centered nursing assessments. It
enables appropriate care plan, where body systems and human anatomy analysis
advances scope to significantly leverage rise on social, behavioral sciences
towards effective developed criteria.

3.16 demonstrate knowledge of when and how to
refer people safely to other professionals or
services for clinical intervention or support.
Reference to people safety to other professionals and services for clinical
interventions or support can be done by, leveraged on productive goals for
clinical intervention support.
4.1 demonstrate and apply an understanding of what
is important to people and how to use this knowledge
to ensure their needs for safety, dignity, privacy,
comfort and sleep can be met, acting as a role model
for others in providing evidence-based person-
centered care
It is essential to ensure people needs for safety, dignity, privacy and
comfort, sleep which enables to develop evidence based person centered
care goals productively. Also maintaining specific aspects connected to
ensuring needs for safety, comfort and privacy maintenance enhances
wider scale person centered care among patients (De, Fothergill and
Richardson, 2022).
4.13 demonstrate the knowledge, skills and
confidence to provide first aid procedures and
basic life support
Knowledge, skills and confidence signifies scale first aid procedures to
enhance life support management goals for developing specific rapport on
extensive healthcare scenarios. Empowering knowledge, such as NHS
values and principles further opens up scope towards extended developed
rise in patients welfare.
5.1 understand the principles of effective
leadership, management, group and
organisational dynamics and culture and apply
these to team working and decision- making
Principles of effective leadership, management and organizational
dynamics within culture, shapes productive scale decision making for
productive functional growth. Best leadership vision, management goals
development further opens up scope towards effective long term decision
making aspects actively.
5.11 effectively and responsibly use a range of
digital technologies to access, input, share and
apply information and data within teams and
between agencies
Effective usage of digital technologies to access, input and share applies
information and data management within teams and between agencies.
There is faster communication expansion, wider scale business growth
imperatively and leveraged rise towards extensive scale usage among

agencies management.
6.1 understand and apply the principles of health
and safety legislation and regulations and maintain
safe work and care environments
Principle of health and safety legislations, maintains proper safe working
conditions and care enjoyments to develop specific scale growth
extensively. Application of principles, in health and safety legislations and
regulations further enables to properly work on towards safe work
environment.
NHS values, 6cs and NMC code of conduct, person centred care,
effective communication, partner working, empowering the patients,
involving pat to make their decisions, patients rights etc before
writing this so it would be easy for you to include in here .
6.6 identify the need to make improvements and
proactively respond to potential hazards that may
affect the safety of people
Risk Management is very important. its very important to identify the potential
hazard which can affect the safety of people. Delivering safe care to the patients is
our main goal . As a nurse its our part of the job to make sure that we are doing
necessary risk assessment and acting accordingly to make improvements and act
promptly to minimize the potential hazards that may affect the safety of people.
Yes
6.11 acknowledge the need to accept and manage
uncertainty, and demonstrate an understanding of
strategies that develop resilience in self and others,
and
Sometimes Nursing could be stressful, traumatic, can have uncertainty or difficult
situations. which can cause both physical and mental problems, such as lack of
concentration, unhappiness, depressive sensation, emotional exhaustion etc.
Despite all of these challenges, resilience enables nurses to cope with the
environment and stress and to maintain healthy and stable psychological
functioning.
Yes
7.1 understand and apply the principles of
partnership, collaboration and interagency
working across all relevant sectors
Partnership working is very important in nursing care. we have to be a great team
player. The principles of partnership, collaboration and interagency working
across all relevant sectors is very important to provide best possible care to the
patients.
Yes

Assessment of Prior Practice Learning
In completing this part of the RPL document you should draw on a range of experiences from practice in which you
demonstrate the required knowledge, skills, attitudes and values to achieve high quality person/family-centred care,
underpinned by effective communication skills, up to 500 hours of practice in a formal care environment. This part of the
document must be signed off by a health-care professional who will verify that you have achieved the required number of
practice hours.
Evidence provided to demonstrate achievement Achieved
Yes/no
Piece of evidence 1 Knowledge, skills and attitudes along with values places high role for developing specific high
quality family centered care where formal care environment further opens up scope to
productively leverage optimum growth informatively. As health care professional, achieving
new specific correlated operative growth proactively plays keen role in maintaining formal care
environment in practicing specific hours (Barnes, Haghiran and Tracy, 2022). Family centered
care, and developing effective communication skills opens up scope within formal care
environment play essential role in demonstrating required quality outputs. Professional
healthcare services, correlate towards optimum extended rise in delivering technical
improvement among patient centered care underpinned by effective communication skills.
NHS values are:
YES

Working together for patients.
Respect and dignity.
Commitment to quality of care.
Compassion.
Improving lives.
Everyone counts.

Evidence provided to demonstrate achievement Achieved
Yes/no
Piece of evidence 2 I was able to handle patient, where schizophrenia disease was being there in patient condition
where by using proper guidelines and policies plays essential role in improvising further
extended improvement. Knowledge, skills and attitudes along with value high quality family
centered care parameters enabled me to ideally handle complicated procedures for extended
improved performance goals. My services to patient were proper, timely being given as per
severity of disease where strengthening ideal treatments availability further determined my
improvement in patient healthcare services (Allen and et.al, 2022).
YES