COURSE OVERVIEW

This Adult Critical Care Nursing programme will prepare you for a role as a critical care nurse, ensuring you are educated to the highest level, to guarantee quality care for critically ill patients.

This one-year, part-time postgraduate certificate (PGCert) is commissioned by the HEIW, and delivered in collaboration with partner health boards, Swansea Bay University Health Board and Hywel Dda University Health Board, and has been supported by national critical care organisations including the British Association of Critical Care Nurses and the All Wales Critical Care Nursing Committee.

By the end of this programme, you will be able to demonstrate skilled performance and provide enhanced theoretical knowledge as a registered critical care nurse. Upon completion of the course, you will hold a nationally recognised postgraduate certificate in critical care nursing as stipulated by the Guideline of Provision for Intensive Care Services (GPICs).

OUR ADULT CRITICAL CARE NURSING EXPERIENCE

Our excellent facilities and teaching staff will ensure the programme provides its intended public benefit, which ensures all critical care nurses are educated to the highest level. Our realistic clinical suite will allow you to demonstrate skilled performance, apply knowledge and understanding and develop a more varied critical care experience that will keep you abreast with the ever-changing evidence base within which you practice.

You will work with a designated mentor in clinical practice for a minimum of 40% of the programme where you will demonstrate your evolving theoretical and practical skills, leadership and decision-making skills, teaching and supervision skills.

Your experience will incorporate interprofessional education to facilitate critical care nurses who will lead, supervise and coordinate compassionate, person-centred and evidence-based care.

ADULT CRITICAL CARE NURSING CAREER

Upon graduating, you will hold a nationally recognised postgraduate certificate in critical care nursing as stipulated by the Guideline of Provision Intensive Care (GPICs). You will also be eligible to pursue further level seven and eight programmes taught here at Swansea University.

Job prospects are excellent with Swansea University ranked 1st for Career Prospects (Guardian University Guide 2024).

You will acquire highly transferable skills that are sought after by employers in critical care and other sectors that will allow you to continue and advance your clinical careers or plan a career in an education or managerial role in healthcare.