Why choose this course?
Our adult nursing foundation year course adopts a person-centred approach to help you to develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to provide safe and effective nursing care. A foundation year prepares you for our adult nursing course, where you’ll continue to build expertise to succeed as a nurse. Our School of Nursing combines state-of-the-art facilities with expert tutors. Apply today to secure your place.

If successful, you’ll be able to apply to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to practise as a registered adult nurse in a range of diverse health and social care settings. As a student on this course, the experience you gain will allow you to pursue a range of pathways, both academically and professionally. You’ll also work with patients from other areas, including mental health and learning disability, as well as children’s nursing. The opportunities you have coming into nursing are vast, such as:

working clinically
becoming a manager
working in a research environment
working abroad
working in education

What's unique about this course?
94% of graduates go on work or further study (Graduate Outcomes Survey 2023)
Recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for the purpose of registration as a qualified nurse
State of the art, hi tech simulated learning facilities designed to build your skills and confidence in emergency situations
Placements with local NHS trusts
What happens on the course?
50% of your course will be situated in the University and 50% in a variety of practice areas.

Throughout your nursing foundation degree, you’ll study a range of academic core (all fields of nursing) and field (adult-focused) modules based on theory and practice experiences. As you move through the course, the course content becomes less generic and more specific to adult nursing.

A lot of what you’ll do on the course is based in the skills labs, which gives you the opportunity to test out your skills in a safe environment. We work very closely with service users, people who have had experiences themselves and want to make a difference to what you, our student nurses, experience. They inform the course content and are involved in its delivery – for example, you may take the blood pressure of a service user in the skills lab setting.

Placements include providing nursing care to some of society’s most vulnerable people including the elderly and those who are physically ill or have a physical or learning disability. In order to ensure all the people you care for are protected and kept safe, you will be expected to abide by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) guidance for student nurses.

Potential Career Paths
Once you have gained your BNurs (Hons) Adult Nursing then this will open up the prospect of many jobs in clinical practice, hospital or community settings, research, teaching or managerial roles. Registered Nurses (RN) continue to study after they have qualified, often in a specialist area, as they develop their career path. Adult Nurses often comment that this qualification has ‘opened doors’ to exciting career opportunities in healthcare.

With experience, as an RN you can take additional qualifications enabling you to work in the community or district nursing, health visiting or school nursing. Adult trained RNs often work in GP practices and hospice settings. In hospitals, adult RNs may work in wards, outpatient clinics or specialist areas such as Accident and Emergency or Intensive Care Units.