📖Program Curriculum
Our BSc Adult Nursing extends over three years and the BSc (Hons) over four years.
You’ll be introduced to the fundamentals of nursing and progress towards delivering person-centred nursing care in more complex and demanding situations. You’ll gain the knowledge skills attitudes and values that are essential to deliver safe compassionate respectful ethical and effective care in an evolving and dynamic health and social care environment. Each year meets the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirement of 50% theory and 50% practice. Through our partnerships with a diverse range of health and social care organisations you’ll have the opportunity to put your theory into practice. You will work all shift patterns of the practice learning environment which may involve both day and night shifts to experience the full learning opportunities of these areas.
This course is designed for you to achieve proficiencies required for registration in the UK as a nurse. You may also have the choice of undertaking a national or international placement.
You’ll study alongside our Mental Health Nursing students throughout your programme and our BSc Paramedic Science students during Year 1 of the programme to gain a holistic understanding of how health and social care professionals work together to bring about the best in patient-centred care.
We’ll also focus on developing the leadership and management skills needed to foster quality and innovation within the health and social care setting.
Course objectives
The overarching course outcomes reflect the NMC Standards for Pre‐registration Nursing Education (NMC 2010) and will aim to ensure our graduate nurses are able to:
Deliver high-quality essential care to all.
Deliver complex care to service users across their field of practice.
Act to safeguard the public and be responsible and accountable for safe person‐centred evidence‐based nursing practice.
Act with professionalism and integrity and work within agreed professional ethical and legal frameworks and processes to maintain and improve standards.
Practise in a compassionate respectful way maintaining dignity and wellbeing and communicating effectively.
Act on their understanding of how people’s lifestyles environments and the location of care delivery influence their health and wellbeing.
Seek out every opportunity to promote health and prevent illness.
Work in partnership with other health and social care professionals and agencies service users carers and families ensuring that decisions about care are shared.
Use leadership skills to supervise and manage others and contribute to planning designing delivering and improving future services.
Modules
The module information below provides an example of the types of course module you may study. The details listed are for the current academic year (September 2022). Modules and start dates are regularly reviewed and may be subject to change in future years.
This programme is governed by the University's General
Undergraduate Regulations
.
Please note that this programme has exceptions to the General Undergraduate Regulations which are set out in
Exceptions to Regulations for Individual Programmes
Year 1 Semester 1
Compulsory module
Module Credits
Practice Learning Experience 1 (PLE1) (SHSUPL1) 20 credits
Compulsory module
Module Credits
Integrated Anatomy & Physiology for Health (SHSU020) 20 credits
Compulsory module
Module Credits
Self Relationships and Healthcare (SHSU021) 20 credits
Compulsory module
Module Credits
Developing Fundamental Clinical Skills (SHSU022) 20 credits
