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Make a positive impact on people's lives as a registered nurse on one of the UK's top nursing programmes (ranked third in the UK: QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025).
This degree equips you with the skills, knowledge, and experience to provide compassionate care to adults. After graduating, you can register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as an adult nurse.
You'll learn from experienced registered nurses and train in our modern facilities, as well as through placements in various healthcare settings, such as:
- intensive care units
- high dependency units
- accident and emergency departments
- surgery and medical wards
- cancer care
- community care teams
- research nursing
You'll be supported through every step of your journey, from student to nurse. Our students each benefit from the support of a personal academic tutor, who is a registered nurse, and from our long-standing relationships with the leading practice settings who deliver our placements.
This degree will allow you to develop and evidence subject-specific and targeted employability skills. This includes the required skill set for a range of future careers, further study, or starting your own business.
The skills you can expect to focus on and gain from this course include:
- Research
- Critical thinking
- Commercial awareness
- Self-management
- Confidence
- Leadership
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Networking
- EDI leadership
- Problem solving
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A-levels additional information
Offers typically exclude General Studies and Critical Thinking. Preferably including a science or social science subject
A-levels contextual offer
We are committed to ensuring that all applicants with the potential to succeed, regardless of their background, are encouraged to apply to study with us. The additional information gained through contextual data allows us to recognise an applicant's potential to succeed in the context of their background and experience. Applicants who are highlighted in this way will be made an offer which is lower than the typical offer for that programme.
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This degree will allow you to develop and evidence subject-specific and targeted employability skills. This includes the required skill set for a range of future careers, further study, or starting your own business.
The skills you can expect to focus on and gain from this course include:
- Research
- Critical thinking
- Commercial awareness
- Self-management
- Confidence
- Leadership
- Communication
- Teamwork
- Networking
- EDI leadership
- Problem solving
- Applied physical health and pharmacology
- Fundamental Health Assessment for adults
- Fundamentals of health and care across the life course
- Introduction to Professional Practice
- Part 1 Placement 1
- Part 1 Placement 2
- Portfolio Part 1 for Adult Nursing Year 1
- Epidemiology, global and public health
- Inclusion Health and Care in Clinical Practice
- Palliative and End of Life Care
- Part 2 Placement 1
- Part 2 Placement 2
- Portfolio Part 2 for Adult Nursing
- Research Methods for Nursing
- Complex Care and Multimorbidity
- Leadership and Innovation in Healthcare
- Part 3 Placement 1
- Part 3 Placement 2
- Portfolio Part 3 for Adult Nursing
- Student Led Project
- Primary Care and Community Nursing
- Urgent, Unscheduled and Critical Care
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