Adult Nursing

Adult nurses play crucial roles in healthcare settings by restoring and promoting health, supporting patients and their families, and responding to the varied healthcare needs of individual patients or communities.

During this course – thanks to strong links with service providers across the region – we can offer a range of placement opportunities embedded within all three years of the course. These opportunities are in field specific areas including dementia care homes, coronary care units, specialist medicine discharge teams, brain injury units, along with GP Surgeries and District Nursing Teams.

Placements are typically provided across the East Midlands, in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and sometimes in surrounding counties. In your placement, you will work alongside practice supervisors and practice assessors to learn the practical application of nursing relevant to adult nursing.

During the course, students have access to updated facilities, utilising simulation suites, Virtual Reality technology and LearningSpace software.

With an excellent reputation and good links with the local NHS trusts and other potential employers, you will benefit from our NMC-accredited course when applying for jobs.

You will share learning opportunities with students from the other fields of nursing practice but an also engage in field of practice specific learning opportunities throughout the programme, to ensure that you develop your identity, knowledge and skills within the adult nursing field of practice. The course also includes opportunities for interprofessional learning, with other health and care students, allowing you to collaborate with other allied healthcare students and professionals, and gain a wider understand of issues and debates in the sector.

For further details please contact:

Sam Humphrey
Programme Leader BSc Nursing (hons) with NMC registration

bscnursing@dmu.ac.uk

Key Features

• 4,000 work placement opportunities: Our faculty of Health and Life Sciences courses offer more than 4,000 work placements to students, giving you real industry experience.

• Authentic facilities: Develop your nursing skills and competencies in immersive facilities including mock hospital wards and a moving and handling suite which come complete with the latest simulation teaching resources.

• Become career ready: Our strong links with local health and social care providers allow you to experience real-world situations through clinical placements embedded in all three years of the course.

• Graduate destinations: Recent graduates have secured a wide range of nursing roles, including staff nurses, community nurses, and clinical leadership positions - making an impact at NHS trusts such as Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, Leicestershire Partnership NHS Trust, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, and University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust.

• Global experience: You can gain valuable international experience as part of your studies through our DMU Global programme.

YEAR ONE:
In first year, students will engage in 917 hours of theory and 720 hours of practice (56% theory and 44% practice).

• Practice Experience 1
• Foundations of Anatomy, Physiology and Pharmacology in Nursing
• Influences on Wellbeing
• Foundations of Field of Practise

YEAR TWO:
In second year, students will engage in 848 hours of theory and 840 hours of practice (50% theory and 50% practice).

• Practice Experience 2
• Research and Evidence Based-Practice
• Primary Care – Patient Journey 1
• Acute Care – Patient Journey 2

YEAR THREE:
In third year, students will engage in 769 hours of theory and 920 hours of practice (45.5% theory and 54.5% practice).

• Practice Experience 3
• Critical inquiry and research proposal
• Leadership and Service Improvement
• Managing Complexities in Nursing Practise

Learning is supported by a strong system of personal tutors and teaching teams, clinical work placements and enthusiastic mentors. Teaching methods include: lectures, seminars, presentations, tutorials, simulation activities, clinical skills learning, enquiry-based problem solving, independent e-learning and peer learning sets.

You will complete blocks of clinical placements 40 hours per week and blocks comprised of theory and independent learning hours up to an equivalent of 37.5 hours each week. Students in practice placements are allocated an academic assessor, practice supervisors and practice assessors to help develop and support learning in the practice context.

Assessments

Assessments fall at the end of each block and are used to assess your theory and practice knowledge. We use a variety of methods that are designed to support you with developing skills vital to a career in nursing. These include:

Examinations – demonstrating resilience and working under pressure
Presentations and Vivas – developing verbal communication skills and the ability to effective communicate complex material
Essays – building strong written skills to support with communicating complex nursing information
Reflective practice – develop skills to engage with written reflection as required by the NMC

Practice is assessed through the completion of your practice portfolio, clinical skills log, submission of service user/ expert by experience feedback and undertaking the required number of hours in practice.