Modules

Year one Core Modules Introduction to Professional Practice in Nursing Fundamental Skills for Nursing Essential Anatomy and Physiology for Healthcare Pharmacology and Numeracy in Nursing Understanding Health, Illness, Disability and Diversity Across the Lifespan Becoming an Adult Nurse Beginning Practice Year two Core Modules Approaches to Research Methods, Appraisal and Application in Nursing The Professional Context of Nursing Understanding Health Conditions in Adult Nursing Assessing Needs and Planning Care for Adult Nursing Developing Competence in Adult Nursing Progressing in Practice Optional Modules Choose from one of the following: Socio-cultural Aspects of Care Sexual Health Infant Feeding Practice in Healthcare Elective Placement Year three Core Modules Leading and Managing and Supervising Care Medicines Management Coordinating Complex Care in Adult Nursing Advancing Nursing Care Preparing for Registration in Adult Nursing Attaining Competence in Practice

Assessment method

This full-time pre-registration nursing programme seamlessly blends academic and practical learning, fostering collaboration between the University and practice partners. Embracing a student-centred philosophy, the course enables you to gain essential knowledge, skills, and professional values necessary for the delivery of compassionate, safe, and effective nursing care. When you’re on campus, your academic study will be undertaken through varying including seminars, lectures, exploring authentic scenarios and case studies as well as virtual learning. Simulation is valued within the College of Health and Society as supportive in enabling our nursing students to acquire skills and behaviours through practice. Nursing simulation incorporates the use of human patient simulators in a virtual ‘real-life’ healthcare environments and situations. Within this learning environment, real-time evolving clinical situations can be simulated, repeated, evaluated, and reflected, reducing the risk of patient harm. To help build your digital skills, online teaching and digital learning opportunities, such as discussion boards and interactive web-based activities, will also be integrated throughout many modules within this programme. This helps you to develop and enhance the necessary digital skills required to work in today’s health care environments. We include assessments which reflect real life nursing practices and, across the three years, you will be assessed through a number of means, such as: reflective assignments presentations exams academic poster development assignments literature review oral exams. You are also required to complete the knowledge skills and behaviours included in the Practice Assessment Document in each year of practice.

Professional bodies

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

• Nursing and Midwifery Council