Adult Nursing

You can choose to study this course in Coventry or at CU Scarborough.

This degree combines theoretical and practice-based learning 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.

• 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 Accreditation section on 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 module at a time, with five weeks of learning followed by one week of assessment per module.

• 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.

• 50% of your learning will take place in diverse practice-based learning environments where you will apply your theoretical knowledge to the real world.

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.

Studying 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.

While continuously developing your sense of professional identity as an adult nurse from day one, you'll also collaborate with learners from other School of Health and Care fields, learning in an environment that puts inclusivity, diversity and dignity at its heart.

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

Course Modules

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.

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

• Nursing and Midwifery Council