Adult Nursing (Blended Learning)

You can choose to study this course in Coventry, London or Scarborough.

This degree combines flexible, interactive digital learning with practical clinical placements to lead you to professional registration and a rewarding career as an adult nurse.

Adult nurses work to improve people’s lives by offering comprehensive physical, emotional, mental and social support to people of all ages. This course aims to equip you with the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to independently address the diverse health and care needs of individuals across the lifespan.

Our blended learning degree combines flexible, interactive digital learning and virtual simulated experience with practice-based learning. Half of your learning is on placement, where you will apply your theoretical knowledge to the real world.

Please note that you are required to be in the UK for the theory and practice modules throughout the course. Some of the theory delivery requires you to be on campus. All clinical skills theory and assessment is carried out on campus.

• Successful completion of this course makes you eligible to apply for professional registration as an Adult Nurse with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) (please see our website for more information).

• Gain the skills to deliver professional, impactful, evidence-informed care across a range of dynamic and diverse healthcare environments.

• Learn to collaborate and thrive as an adult nurse across and within multidisciplinary teams to coordinate safe, evidenced-based care delivery.

• Study one theory module at a time, with five weeks of learning followed by one week of assessment per module.

• Placement-based modules are longer to ensure that the requirements for the NMC are met. This learning will take place in diverse practice-based learning environments where you will apply your theoretical knowledge to the real world.

• All eligible learners on this course can apply for a minimum payment from the government of £5,000 per year. You can apply for additional payments if you incur childcare costs.

Why you should study this course
If you are compassionate, enthusiastic and committed, we can support you in developing the skills to deliver professional, evidence-informed care that truly impacts people’s lives.

• Our approach supports you to develop a strong sense of professional identity and accountability as an adult nurse from day one.

• Develop your confidence and skills in preparation to lead, influence and supervise others.

• Delivered by a team that includes highly skilled, knowledgeable, nursing and allied health professionals.

• Develop your digital fluency, curiosity, critical and reflective thinking.

• Access to success coaches, placement supervisors and specialist support for mathematics and academic writing.

Study in the School of Health and Care
Gain the skills and experience to transform lives, communities and the future of healthcare delivery. We aim to empower you to become a stand-out healthcare professional, capable, competent and confident in your field and role within the wider healthcare team.

Continuously developing your sense of professional identity as an adult nurse from day one, you'll learn in an environment that puts inclusivity, diversity and dignity at its heart.

Please visit our website for the most up-to-date information.

Your first year modules cover the essential theory and practical skills related to nursing health assessments and explore how these can be used to inform individualised care plans across the lifespan.

The emphasis is on building therapeutic relationships and enhancing communication skills. All of this will help to prepare you for clinical placements. There is practical hands-on experience in the clinical skill lab to develop skills and knowledge that are essential to achieving the proficiencies within the clinical placements.

You will learn about societal influences, health inequalities and determinants of health, exploring health policy and the different strategies you can use to help promote health and wellbeing.

In the practice placement modules you will spend time in a nursing care setting, delivering hands-on patient care through guided participation under the supervision of your practice supervisors and assessors. You will work in the multidisciplinary team towards achieving practical proficiency and bringing your theoretical knowledge to life. You will demonstrate your professional values and gain feedback towards continuing to develop your nursing care and delivery.

Year One

• Becoming a Professional Practitioner
• Evidence: Your Profession in a Global Context
• Nursing Assessment and Care Delivery
• Understanding Influences on Health and Care
• Placement 1: Introductions to Nursing Care
• Placement 2: Delivering Nursing Care

Year Two

• Therapeutic Interventions in Adult Nursing
• Complex Decision-Making Within Adult Nursing Environments
• Exploring Knowledge Through Curiosity
• Enhanced Approaches in Delivering Holistic Care
• Placement 3: Delivering Enhanced Nursing Care
• Placement 4: Delivering Complex Holistic Nursing Care

Final Year

• Complex Care Coordination in Adult Nursing
• Leading for the Future as a Health and Care Professional
• The Evidenced-Based Practitioner: Professional Project
• Preparing for your Career in Nursing
• Placement 5: Coordinating Nursing Care
• Placement 6: Practising Autonomously

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated. Before accepting any offers, please check the website for the most up to date course content.

*For further information please check the course page on the Coventry University website.

This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module.

Assessment methods may include:

• coursework
• practice placement
• formal examinations
• Virtual Simulated Placements (VSPs)
• simulations
• Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs)
• presentations
• vivas (discussions).

The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Nursing and Midwifery Council