Nursing / Registered Nurse BSc(Hons)

Why choose this course?

This course provides the theoretical knowledge and practical experience needed to register as a nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. You will have the chance to share learning experiences with students from other professional groups. The course is ideal if you have the potential to contribute to, and lead in, frontline and specialist nursing roles.

What will you study?

You can choose to study our four nursing branches – adult, child, learning disability or mental health nursing. In the first year you will be introduced to the foundations of nursing and healthcare, while in the second year you will look at the context of nursing within a variety of client groups. In your final year you will carry out a research dissertation on a subject of special interest.

NB: We are unable to consider students who are not eligible for a Department of Health bursary for this programme.

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.

Year 1

• Establishing and Maintaining Relationships: Therapeutic Communication for Nursing (Interprofessional Foundation Programme)
• Science of Nursing
• Foundations of Nursing (field specific)

Year 2

• Evidence for Effective Nursing
• Applying Clinical Reason and Decision-making in Nursing (field specific)
• Implementation and Evaluation of Nursing Care (field specific)
• Therapeutic Pharmacology (field specific)
• Clinical Reason and Decision-making in Nursing
• Needs Assessment in Nursing (field specific)

Year 3

• Complexities of Nursing (field specific)
• Complexities of Service Provision (field specific)
• Developing Nursing Practice Through Research and Innovation
• Personal and Professional Development of the Nurse (field specific)
• Leadership, Management and Team Working
• Health Improvement in Nursing (field specific)

(Modules may not contain all of these themes but will be represented across the whole programme.)

Compassionate Skilled Nurse

• Professional values
• Quality of life
• Medicine management
• Safeguarding and risk
• Life span
• Life sciences
• Managing and maintaining relationships
• Self awareness and reflection
• Working with diversity and anti-discriminatory practice
• Nursing skills (essential skills clusters)

Learner and Educator

• Study skills
• Self awareness and reflection

Leader and partner

• Ethics and law
• Managing and maintaining relationships

Researcher and Innovator

• Research and literacy skills
• Creativity and problem solving skills