Nursing (Adult) BSc (Hons)
Sheffield Hallam University
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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

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**Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.****Home fee-paying students can access a non-repayable maintenance grant of at least £5,000 per year. You may also be eligible for additional financial support based on your circumstances. Learn more at www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/health-and-social-care/fees-and-funding****Course summary**- Understand health sciences in the practice setting.- Gain the skills and values to enter highly skilled employment.- Develop a ...Read more


Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.


Home fee-paying students can access a non-repayable maintenance grant of at least £5,000 per year. You may also be eligible for additional financial support based on your circumstances. Learn more at www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/health-and-social-care/fees-and-funding


Course summary

- Understand health sciences in the practice setting.- Gain the skills and values to enter highly skilled employment.- Develop a strong professional identity and confidence.- Learn to develop and deliver person-centred care.- Collaborate with other professional groups in health and social care.This unique course offers you an exciting opportunity to become a fully qualified adult nurse, transforming the lives of individuals and communities. You’ll consider the changing nature of health, illness and recovery – as well as the relationship between healthcare professionals and service users. You’ll graduate as a reflective, competent and employable professional.


How you Learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.On this course you’ll learn from enthusiastic academic staff who have a variety of clinical expertise and experience. You’ll apply your theoretical study directly to your practice setting, using the knowledge, skills and attributes you’ve gained.Nurses are an integral part of a multidisciplinary team. So in some modules you’ll learn and collaborate with students from other health and social care courses. This approach will help you to deliver person centred-care – with an understanding of how other professionals contribute to the person's journey through health and social care services.You learn through- practice-based learning (50%)- lectures- workshops- projects and group work- tutorials- presentations- simulation- independent learning- skills rehearsal- technology-enhanced learning


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Work placements

You’ll apply the theory you study to practice-based learning experiences. Here you’ll develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice – preparing you to become a life-long, competent professional. The experiences you’re provided with are compulsory to achieve the course’s practice-based learning outcomes.These experiences will help you build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity, and curiosity. They’ll take place in different practice-based learning environments – reflecting the range of ways services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements, alongside real-world experience of services delivered face to face to service users. We’ll ensure the practice-based learning element of your course complies with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) which governs the adult nursing profession. So by the end of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to show that you meet the requirements to register as an adult nurse.

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CUG Subject Ranking
CUG Subject Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2024
58th
CUG Ranking
CUG Ranking
Source: Complete University Guide 2024
63rd
Adult Nursing
Drop-out rate
Drop-out rate
The percentage of students who didn't finish the course.
Calculated by 100% - (% of students continuing course + % of students completed course)
100 - 92 = 8% Drop-out rate Source: UNISTATS, 2019
8%
Employment rate
Employment rate
The percentage of students in full-time work 6 months after finishing their course.
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
99%
Average salary
Average salary
Source: UNISTATS, 2019
Adult Nursing graduate salary at this uni
£22,000
UK Adult Nursing graduate salary
£22,000
What students say
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Ayesha
31 Mar 22

Overall, I feel like the campus could be more spaced out. I am studying in collegiate campus and and it seems all so close together on one road with some other buildings on..Read more

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Entry requirements

GCSE/National 4/National 5:

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English Language or Literature at grade C or 4 or equivalents*Maths at grade D or 4 or equivalents*Science at grade C or 4 or equivalents**GCSE Maths equivalents• Level 2 Key Skills/Application of Number/Grade D at GCSE Maths/ Level 2 Maths credits from an Access course• maths equivalency test from www.equivalencytesting.co.uk*GCSE English equivalents• Level 2 Literacy• Level 2 Key Skills*GCSE Science equivalents• OCR Science Level 2• science units gained on a Level 3 BTEC or OCR National Diploma or Extended Diploma Qualification• science credits gained on Access to Higher Education Diplomas (at least 12 credits gained at level 2 or 6 credits gained at level 3)• science equivalency test from www.equivalencytesting.co.uk

Popular A-level subjects

Adult Nursing

Top 5 A-levels taken by students who study this subject at uni.

Psychology
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Sociology
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Health & Social Care
20%
General Studies
18%
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Ayesha
31 Mar 22
Nursing (Adult) BSc (Hons)
Overall, I feel like the campus could be more spaced out. I am studying in collegiate campus and and it seems all so close together on one road with some other buildings on...
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Sheffield Hallam University
Sheffield Hallam University , Sheffield

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Sheffield Hallam University
City Campus Howard Street Sheffield S1 1WB United Kingdom
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