Nursing/Registered Nurse PgDip

Facts about Nursing/Registered Nurse

Course structure
Qualification	PgDip
Duration	Full time: two years (September and February start dates)
Attendance	Full time: five days per week
Application	Please apply through UCAS using the following codes – Adult Nursing (B741); Children's Nursing (B731); Learning Disability Nursing (B764); Mental Health Nursing (B766)

Choose Kingston's Nursing/Registered Nurse PgDip

If you feel passionately about health and social care issues, then this course will help you learn the practical knowledge and skills required to start a career in nursing.

It ensures you are prepared for the realities of nursing in the frontline, where you will increasingly be asked to take on leadership and management roles. Every day as a nurse is different, and every day you can make a positive change to people's lives. Your work environment may also change, taking you out of the hospital into the community and people's home depending on the career path you choose.

Our brand-new curriculum incorporates the most up-to-date knowledge you will need to excel in the changing world of healthcare. You will learn a wide range of nursing skills that will enable you treat the whole person holistically.

This breadth of knowledge ensures that you can help individuals to achieve optimum health by healing the mind as well as the body. It also recognises that today's nurse must also address a complexity of conditions.

What will you study?

This course will provide you with a portfolio of skills that will enable you to work as a nurse in a range of health and social care settings including hospitals, clinics and in the community.

At the outset you will choose to focus on one of four fields – adult, child, learning disability or mental health. In addition to the specialist skills that each of these areas demand, you will also gain experience in each of the other fields – for example, a child nurse may spend time working with children with learning disabilities or mental health problems. This innovative approach to learning will:

provide you with the skills to adapt your practice depending on the needs of the individual; and
increase your opportunities for career progression once qualified.

Throughout the course you will have a chance to practise skills in skills laboratories and to undertake work experience in practice placements, both in your specialist field and in other more generalist nursing areas. By the end of the course you will be eligible to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and possess the confidence and competence to work as a nurse.

Course structure

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.