BSc in Adult Nursing
Manchester Metropolitan University
Key Information
Campus location
Manchester, United Kingdom
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
3 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
GBP 18,000 / per year *
Application deadline
Request info
Earliest start date
Aug 2024
* UK and Channel Island students: £9,250 per year | EU and non-EU International students: £18,000 per year
Introduction
An elderly woman needs stitches and care after a car accident. A distressed alcoholic patient refusing treatment after a serious fall. A cancer patient returning to your ward, only 19 and no longer in remission.
We’ve designed our course around the core values of the NHS constitution so that you understand what’s required in caring for and supporting vulnerable adults. Our aim is to make sure we prepare you for the challenges you may face and develop the expertise you’ll need to become a leader in nursing.
You’ll spend half of this course on clinical placements/simulated practice in a variety of settings, these may include an operating theatre, accident and emergency, a community health centre, an intensive care unit, an outpatients department or a nursing home.
When you’re on campus, you’ll practice clinical skills and techniques, such as how to manually take a patient’s blood pressure and how to give emergency care in our Clinical Simulation Suite.
As well as practical skills, some of the topics you’ll explore in lectures include anatomy, infectious diseases, how poverty impacts health, and the ethics of being an adult nurse in today’s society.
All students must demonstrate in their personal statements an understanding of adult nursing in the UK incorporating the NHS core values, NMC code, vision for nursing and the future nurse training standards as well as contemporary issues in nursing. You must evidence an understanding of the qualities required to be a nursing professional in the UK in order to be shortlisted for an interview. Successful applicants will be subject to a video/face-to-face interview.
Features and benefits
- Approved course - This course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Employability - 100% of BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing graduates are employed/in further education 15 months after graduating. (Graduate Outcomes survey 2017/18 graduates – UK, full-time, first degree respondents. Contains HESA Data © HESA 2020).
- Teaching excellence - Ranked 4th in the UK for nursing (The Guardian University Guide 2022).
- Become a registered nurse - As a graduate, you’re eligible to register as a nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
- Real-world experience - In this course you will spend an equal amount of time on clinical placements/simulated practice in community and hospital settings and at university on nursing theory. Find out more about placements in Manchester by watching this video.
- Extra qualifications - You will have the opportunity to gain the added benefit of an additional award in Acute Illness Management by the end of the course.
- Outstanding facilities - We have well-equipped clinical skills laboratories complete with computerised sim-man manikins, used to demonstrate both basic and challenging conditions and nursing interventions.
- GCSE help - If you don't currently have your maths or science GCSE, you may have the opportunity to take our maths or science equivalency test before enrolling, to help secure your place.
- Unrivalled student support - Greater Manchester Pastoral Support Toolkit.
Admissions
Curriculum
Course information
Adult Nursing specialises in caring for and supporting vulnerable adults in a variety of settings including hospitals, communities and the independent and voluntary sectors. Our undergraduate courses have been designed, developed and are delivered to recognise the core values of the NHS and the required standards of our accrediting body the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
Nursing is a challenging profession, both mentally and physically, which carries a great deal of responsibility. Adult Nurses care for people across the lifespan including young adults and others with acute and long-term illnesses. They work as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside doctors, physiotherapists, anaesthetists, pharmacists, dieticians and many others.
This course provides an equal balance of theory and practice learning with placements in both the hospital and community settings. We feel that immersing our students in the reality of the profession as they train better prepares them for the challenges of nursing practice upon qualification and develops highly employable, accountable nurses.
You will learn how to assess the needs of the patient, communicate effectively with professional colleagues, and provide sensitive support for the patient and their families. You will also develop the leadership and management skills required to motivate and supervise others.
Year 1
In Year 1, you will be introduced to key concepts of health and nursing practice, using a wide range of teaching and assessment modes. Theoretical learning will both inform practice and support practice-based learning enhancing your understanding of professional matters.
Core units
- Becoming an Accountable Professional
- Introduction to Nursing Enquiry & Evaluation
- What Is Health?
- Science & Skills for Practice
- Effective Communication in Health & Social Care
Year 2
In Year 2, you will extend your understanding and develop a critical approach to core areas of nursing theory and practice. There will be an opportunity for students to choose an elective placement that aims to underpin wider knowledge of diversity across the health and social care spectrum.
Core units
- Developing as an Accountable Professional
- Developing Governance in Practice
- Health for All
- Diversity in Nursing Practice
- Assessing Need & Planning Care for Adult Nursing
Year 3
In Year 3, you will apply the knowledge gained from years one and two. The focus will be on developing critical, autonomous and accountable professional nurses for practice, who will lead and deliver person-centred evidence-based care.
In Year 3, we create simulations of a patient’s journey from admission to discharge. Scenarios we’ve set our students in the past include major trauma management, with a patient involved in a motorbike accident who needs stabilising, emergency care with a patient who has suffered a heart attack, and ward management to show you the day in the life of a nurse working a shift on a busy ward.
Core units
- Being an Accountable Professional
- The Autonomous Practitioner
- Translating Evidence into Practice
- Medicines Management
- Leading Managing & Evaluating Complex Care
Additional information about this course
Health checks: You will be required to complete an Occupational Health Assessment to ensure that your health does not constitute a barrier to the achievement of the programme learning outcomes or eligibility to apply for registration with the professional body. This will require the completion of a health questionnaire before or during the first few weeks of your course, followed by an occupational health screening appointment which will include the consideration of appropriate immunisations.
Professional Suitability: students on programmes leading to professional qualifications are required to adhere to professional standards and codes of practice during their studies. Failure to do so may lead to exclusion from the programme on the grounds of professional unsuitability. Students will be briefed about the requirements at the start of their studies.
Course-specific regulations: Professional, Statutory and Regulatory Bodies require students to achieve results that demonstrate their ability to practise safely. There are therefore some exceptions to the standard University Assessment Regulations for those students, for example, limitations on resits and on the compensation of failed marks.
Placement options
Placements in the clinical practice settings are a key element of the programme and form half of the course.
You’ll undertake clinical placements in a variety of settings, these may include an operating theatre, accident and emergency, a community health centre, an intensive care unit, an outpatients department or a nursing home.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
When you graduate, you’ll gain a Bachelor of Science degree and eligibility to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as an adult nurse.
As a registered nurse, you might work at one of our partner NHS trusts, where you completed a placement experience, or you might move into the private or voluntary sector.
Many of our graduates work as staff nurses in NHS hospitals in the UK and go on to become ward managers or specialist nurses, but you could develop your nursing career in a GP practice, care home, school, hospice, prison or the Armed Forces.
You might decide to specialise in a particular field of nursing and continue with postgraduate study. We have a range of postgraduate courses to support your professional development.