Nursing Studies (Registered Nurse Adult Nursing)

Why choose this course
-Access our state-of-the-art Clinical Simulation Centre, featuring wards and a critical care unit, to practise scenarios with professional actors and interactive adult manikins.

-Gain extensive experience out on clinical placements with our NHS partner trusts, which you’ll combine with theoretical learning to ensure you meet the requirements of our registering body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

-Learn from a multidisciplinary team of lecturers, who are all healthcare professionals with experience of working in the NHS. Many are also active researchers, investigating topics like cancer, dementia, ethics, and compassionate practice.

-Benefit from a course that champions interprofessional learning, allowing you to practise alongside midwifery and paramedic science students to get the best preparation for life out in practice.

-Get the academic requirements needed to register with the NMC to work as an adult nurse once you’ve graduated.

What you will study
On our BSc Adult Nursing course, you’ll gain experience of caring for people aged 16 years and over and will acquire an understanding of health and illness within the adult population.

In your first year, you’ll study topics that are fundamental to adult nursing, including the themes of ethics, anatomy and physiology, evidence-based practice, and public health promotion, ensuring you have a solid foundation upon which to build the rest of your degree.

During your second year, you’ll understand how to provide care for long-term conditions and gain an appreciation for managing transition in care, including breaking significant news to patients. You’ll develop your decision-making and leadership skills and will gain insight into how psychosocial, spiritual, ethical and legal influences have an impact on the way patient care is provided.

In your third year, you’ll learn how to effectively assess and manage deteriorating patients, analysing and debating a range of treatment options and evidence, to inform a choice of strategies for managing their holistic delivery of care, whilst developing as a professional ready for registration.

After graduating from our course, you'll be a confident, autonomous practitioner, driven and committed to advocate and meet the needs of patients and their families, as outlined in the NHS Constitution.