Overview

Adult nursing is a dynamic, rewarding and highly skilled caring and compassionate career. You'll develop diverse skills ranging from the delivery of health education for individuals from a wide variety of backgrounds to delivering complex care for people with multiple acute or long term conditions.

This course aims to develop nurses who are able to deliver person-centred, safe and effective care, working with other professions and agencies in an ever-changing and complex healthcare environment.

You'll experience a variety of clinical placements and will learn using a diverse range of techniques and approaches. You'll undertake clinical practice for 50% of the course, in community and hospital placements as well as independent and voluntary sector experience.

During placements, you will be involved in nursing activities including providing care for a range of patients relevant to the nursing pathway you've chosen.

GCU's learning environment provides innovative, flexible and effective opportunities to develop understanding and nursing skills, using methods such as a blend of online and face-to-face teaching and a state-of-the-art inter-professional simulation suite.

Your career

On successful completion of the course, you will be eligible for registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). You will be equipped to apply for a wide range of positions in the NHS, working closely with patients, clients, service users and carers, and also leading in management and research.

What you
will study

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97%
of graduates who are in employment are in 'highly skilled' occupations

97% of graduates from our BSc Nursing Studies (Adult) are in work and/or further study fifteen months after graduating (HESA, 2023)

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