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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Queen Elizabeth Hospital
Full Time
Sep 2027
3 Year
Study with us in Cambridge, Chelmsford or Peterborough – and be a part of our supportive adult nursing community. As part of your course, you’ll get the chance to immerse yourself in placements and build up the knowledge and skills to deliver patient care. You will get to experience a wide range of placements to support your learning, but can now choose whether to have most of your placements in primary care (community) or in acute (hospital) settings. Our BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing degree is accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, so you’ll be eligible to apply for registration once you graduate and kick start your career as a registered adult nurse.A compassionate nurse understands that patient wellbeing must be placed at the centre of the care they deliver. A courageous nurse uses good communication to advocate for what’s right for patients and commits to act as a role model. We’ll help you grow into a competent nurse and concentrate on developing your leadership skills. Our Nursing and Midwifery Council validated Adult Nursing degree course places equal value on clinical practice and theory. It’ll take you from university lectures to a variety of placements. You may well find yourself working with younger and mature adults at a GP surgery, attending health visits or in a variety of hospital settings, from A&E through to acute care and oncology.
Introducing you to the fundamental aspects of person-centred care for safe, compassionate and effective nursing care. You'll explore the NMC Code (2018) and begin to grasp the basics of the NMC Future Nurse Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses (2018). Using a person and family-centred care approach through the use of family based scenarios, you'll be supported to begin to explore the context of health, ill health and disability, and health care needs across the lifespan. Recognising the diversity of the patient population we'll support you to understand the need for ethical, legal and professional values to ensure equality within health care delivery. The scenarios will include healthcare related to adult, child, mental health and learning disability patients. You'll gain an understanding of bioscience and physiology, alongside a range of physical health care needs that often co-exist with other health care issues. You'll build an awareness of the nursing care of patients with mental illness, obesity, asthma, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and cardiovascular disease. All of this will be underpinned by an introduction to professionalism and the key tenets of nursing.
In your first core placement you'll have the opportunity to work alongside health care teams and Practice Supervisors who'll support you in developing a range of knowledge and skills. You'll encounter patients with a wide range of health care needs and develop understanding around accountability, professionalism, assessment and care planning, providing and evaluating care and improving safety and quality of care. This may be the first time you have worked in a practice setting and we'll support you to consolidate the learning that took place in the prior theory module. We'll prepare you in our simulated skills labs for skills such as taking and recording vital signs, personal care, basic life support and introduction to safe drug administration. You'll be exposed to real-life situations and begin to develop communication and relationship skills, as well as a range of physical skills, as set out in the NMC (2018) Standards of Proficiency for Pre-registration Nurses. In this practice module you'll benefit from sharing classroom learning with students from adult, mental health and child nursing fields.
In your second core placement you'll continue to have the opportunity to work alongside health care teams and practice supervisors who'll support you in developing a range of knowledge and skills. You'll encounter patients with a wide range of health care needs and develop understanding around accountability, professionalism, assessment and care planning, providing and evaluating care and improving safety and quality of care. We'll support you to consolidate the learning that took place in the prior theory module. We'll prepare you in our simulated skills labs for skills such as pain assessment, injections, physical and mental health first aid. You'll be exposed to real life situations and continue to develop communication and relationship skills, as well as a range of physical skills, as set out in the NMC (2018) Standards of Proficiency for Pre-registration Nurses. In this practice module you'll benefit from sharing classroom learning with students from adult, mental health and child nursing fields.
We'll support you to develop a greater understanding of health and well-being. Promoting health and preventing ill health is a key role of the registered nurse. You'll explore the importance of epidemiology and the impact of environmental factors that affect our health. You'll discuss current and topical public health programmes and health promotion frameworks. An understanding of local services will help you to appreciate the promotion of health and prevention of ill health amongst your local population. You'll have the opportunity to consider your own health and the nurse's place as a healthy role model in supporting the health education of patients. Building on the learning of previous bioscience topics, you'll explore a further range of bioscience systems and consider the prevention, biopsychosocial impact and care of some common conditions such as breast cancer, teenage pregnancy, Down's syndrome and depression. You'll gain an understanding of the role of the accountable professional, safeguarding, and responsibilities around duty of candour, patient advocacy and autonomy.
Patient safety is at the heart of nursing and it is a requirement of the professional regulator (the Nursing and Midwifery Council) that by the point of entry to register, nurses must demonstrate competency in numeracy skills in the safe administration of drugs (NMC, 2018). This includes being competent in basic medicines calculations relating to: tablets and capsules, liquid medicines and injections. Safe Medicate is an online learning and assessment package focusing on medicines calculations. You'll be given login information for this software at the beginning of the course and can have unlimited access to this e-learning platform, practice questions, and formative assessments. A professional requirement of the course is that you become proficient in medicine calculations. Each year, you'll undertake an online medicine calculations module which offers the opportunity for unlimited practice related to a variety of medicine calculations. You'll be required to undertake a minimum of 6 formative assessments prior to the summative assessment. When you take your exam in your first year, you'll be required to get a pass mark of 80%.
In this practice module you'll consolidate your learning in a skills lab and practice environment. By now you'll have cared for many patients and have an understanding of some of the physical and communication skills that can improve the patient experience. In the skills lab you'll have the opportunity to practise passing feeding tubes, managing catheters, removing sutures, wound care, oxygen therapy and the symptom management in end of life care. You'll advance your communication skills through techniques such as motivational interviewing and de-escalation strategies. End of life care is a theme within this module and you'll learn skills to support you in distressing situations such as breaking bad news. You'll be supported to practise with increased confidence as you progress through your placement and will continue to have the opportunity to work alongside health care teams and practice supervisors who will support you in developing new knowledge and skills.
In this practice module you'll consolidate your learning and skills that took place in the theory module, as well as develop your skills from previous placements. Practice learning will be in an adult nursing setting. We'll develop your skills with computer-controlled mannequins in hi-tech simulation environments to prepare you to care for deteriorating patients. You'll have the opportunity to formatively peer assess the technical and non-technical skills (caring, compassion, communication, team working, decision making and situation awareness) during the scenarios. Managing seizures, tracheostomy care, IV fluid management, venepuncture and cannulation, neuro-observations, cardiac monitoring and surgical care are amongst some of the skills that you'll practise in the skills lab. You'll be supported to practise with increased confidence as you progress through your placement and will have the opportunity to work alongside health care teams and Practice Supervisors who will support you in developing new knowledge and skills.
Understanding the biopsychosocial aspects of a long term condition from a patient perspective including the impact on the carer and family is essential. You'll learn about a range of long term conditions and the associated qualitative research including; heart failure, coronary heart disease, cancer and alcohol related diseases. You'll consider the NHS plan (2019) and Public Health Outcome Framework (2019) in the context of integrated care that clients receive in preventing ill health and promoting physical and mental wellbeing. You'll study the complexities of living with a long term condition in a variety of care settings. We'll support you to develop an in- depth understanding of the biopsychosocial issues that affect people living with a long term condition. You'll explore the legal and ethical challenges that people and their families face. Focusing on a person centred holistic approach to assessment and care planning you'll learn to address these challenges.
Using the guidelines and policies you'll appreciate the need for a structured process for risk assessment, monitoring and communication to optimise patient outcome. The recognition of patients? clinical deterioration and the management of unstable patients are key skills for nurses. You'll develop the knowledge, skills and experience to recognise, communicate and respond competently, with care and compassion, when a patient's clinical condition indicates that they are becoming acutely unwell. You'll explore how psychological well-being can impact on recovery and the importance of patient focused care and empowerment. The module content is centred on the ABCDE approach. Alongside lectures, pre-reading and skills sessions, you'll participate in clinical scenarios around deteriorating patients (e.g. patients experiencing acute respiratory failure, hypovolaemic shock, acute coronary syndrome, and sepsis).
Patients become acutely unwell in clinical or home settings. Accurate recording of clinical information e.g. observation, medication and fluid balance is essential in the early recognition of an acute deterioration in patients and crucial if patients are to receive the best quality care and timely admission to critical care and acute areas. Using the guidelines and policies you'll appreciate the need for a structured process for risk assessment, monitoring and communication to optimise patient outcome. The recognition of patients? clinical deterioration and the management of unstable patients are key skills for nurses. You'll develop the knowledge, skills and experience to recognise, communicate and respond competently, with care and compassion, when a patient's clinical condition indicates that they are becoming acutely unwell. You'll explore how psychological well-being can impact on recovery and the importance of patient focused care and empowerment.
We'll support your transition to an autonomous practitioner in readiness for joining the Nursing and Midwifery Council register. You'll practise with increased confidence and competence as you progress through your placement and will continue to have the opportunity to work alongside health care teams and practice supervisors. You'll continue to practise and develop your communication and relationship skills, and a range of physical skills. You'll enhance your skills around accountability, professionalism, assessment and care planning, providing and evaluating care, leading and managing nursing care, working in teams and improving safety and quality of care. By the end of your final placement, you'll supervise and teach a junior learner/colleague in practice and organise and manage the care for a group/caseload of people with complex care needs. You'll also complete a summative Medicines Management Assessment.
Patient safety is at the heart of nursing and it is a requirement of the professional regulator (the Nursing and Midwifery Council) that by the point of entry to register, nurses must demonstrate competency in numeracy skills in the safe administration of drugs (NMC, 2018). This includes being competent in basic medicines calculations relating to: tablets and capsules, liquid medicines, injections, and IV infusions. Safe Medicate is an online learning and assessment package focusing on medicines calculations. A professional requirement of the course is that you become proficient in medicine calculations. You'll undertake this online medicine calculations module which offers the opportunity for unlimited practice related to a variety of medicine calculations. You'll be required to undertake a minimum of six formative assessments prior to the summative assessment. When you take your exam in your third year, you'll be required to get a pass mark of 100%.
We'll encourage you to develop and realise your role as an accountable and responsible practitioner, embracing the role of leading and managing the planning and organisation of high-quality, multi-disciplinary care. Develop your skills of self-awareness, self-compassion, emotional intelligence, resilience, team building, motivating and coaching others as you learn to lead teams. These mechanisms will ensure that you begin to develop a sense of professional identity and values. You'll consider clinical decision making and the tools to support this, techniques to resolve conflicts and manage complaints. You'll explore root cause analysis to support practice- based decisions and quality assurance mechanisms such as, clinical governance, standard setting, and the use of audits. Supporting patient safety, you'll learn the importance of whistleblowing, and highlighting and responding to poor and sub-standard practice. You'll be supported in interview preparation technique and developing a professional profile and Curriculum Vitae, in preparation for applying for your first job as a qualified nurse.
You'll be supported to transition from student nurse to a qualified practitioner, ready to face the challenges in the modern health care setting. This involves adjusting to a new and challenging role, accepting additional and different responsibilities and further developing the complex skills required of a registered nurse. To improve the patient experience is one of the most rewarding aspects of a nurse's role and requires insight, leadership, and understanding of evidence, resources, teamwork and planning. You'll have the opportunity to review a wide range of literature to seek evidence to improve the patient experience and propose a plan for an innovative service improvement. Your service improvement plan will evidence consideration for any physical, human and financial constraints associated with the development that you have explored. Through this you'll demonstrate intellectual flexibility and creative capability, in readiness for employment in the health care environment.
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