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Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Singleton Park Campus 1
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
Our internationally recognised Adult Nursing degree course will give you the skills and experience to launch a rewarding career in this diverse and essential profession. Over the course of this carefully-integrated, three year BSc programme, you will learn about the holistic needs of people from early adulthood until old age and develop the professional skills to provide high quality nursing care in in a range of clinical and community settings. As you progress, you will develop the skills to assess, plan, deliver, and evaluate evidence-based care to promote the health and wellbeing of adults with acute and chronic conditions. Half of your teaching takes place in the university and the other half in healthcare settings. We have excellent working relationships with many healthcare providers, so you will have access to a wide range of clinical experiences across south west Wales. These include placements in the NHS and independent sector in hospitals and community settings.On graduation, you will be eligible to apply for Registered Nurse (Adult) status with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and to register as a nurse for work in EU and EEA. Job prospects are excellent, with 99% of our nursing graduates employed in a professional or managerial job within six months (Destination of Leavers Study, 2018) You can expect a starting salary of £24,214 rising to £43,772 for a highly experienced staff nurse. Specialist nurses and practice managers can earn £45,000.
This module will introduce students to the profession of nursing, its core concepts and its underpinning values as enshrined in the NMC?s The Code. The module aims to develop the student?s knowledge of the empirical, ethical, personal, socio-political and aesthetic dimensions of nursing. It aims to enable the student to understand the nurse?s role in providing safe and effective nursing care across the lifespan and all four fields of nursing, which is underpinned by professional attitudes and evidence, promoting partnership working with service users and their carers. This module will also introduce the student to learning in higher education.
This module will support students to gain insight into factors that can influence a person?s health and wellbeing. This module will examine how biological, psychological and social factors contribute to patterns of health breakdown and ill health. A lifespan approach will be implemented to enable students to care for people across all four fields in their own homes, community, hospital or any healthcare setting where their needs are supported and managed.
This module will enable the student to develop an understanding of the current issues that impact service delivery and how clinical practice influences the provision of high-quality, safe, person- centered care across all four fields for individuals in their own homes, community, hospital or any healthcare setting.
This module aims to develop core assessment, judgment, and decision-making skills for delivering safe care to acutely ill adult patients. The module will also enable students to develop the essential skills required to provide safe, effective, and immediate care across all four fields of nursing practice and across the lifespan, in all healthcare settings. The student will develop the skills necessary to evaluate the evidence which underpins practice and explore the importance of effective team working and communication.
This module enables the student to develop the requisite knowledge, skills and values to care for adults with a range of long term conditions to include palliative/ end of life care. The students will learn to recognise the complexity of living with long term health conditions and to appraise the range of approaches to nursing people across all four fields of nursing practice with long term conditions, in the context of multi-professional practice and collaborative working.
The module will enable the adult field student to participate in the organisation, management and delivery of safe, quality care to patients and service users across all four fields of nursing practice in accordance with recognised legal, ethical, quality and professional frameworks for practice. Students will develop a critical understanding of the process of clinical governance and continuous quality improvement through leadership skills and apply these principles to the practice settings, using a range of communication skills, self-reflection, clinical judgment and critical evaluation of the evidence base for nursing practice.
This module aims to prepare students to care and systematically manage complex care situations, demonstrating creativity, adaptability and the prioritisation of clinical decision making whilst working within their scope of practice and across all four fields of nursing practice, across community, hospital or any healthcare setting.
The module will empower students to develop values for professional practice through critical reflection. It will facilitate nursing students to develop an appreciation of organisational leadership and management, to identify and apply knowledge and skills to propose an advancement in practice within their chosen field of nursing and across all four fields of nursing practice.
This module aims to develop the students? knowledge in understanding accountability and the roles and responsibilities of a registered nurse. Students will consider professional practice in relation to professional, socio-political, legal and ethical issues. The module enables the student to integrate the learning from theory and practice gained over the course of the programme in order to meet the Future Nurse: standards of proficiency for registered nurses (NMC, 2018) to enable the transition from student to registered nurse.
NHS funded
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