Bachelor Nursing Studies
Bachelor's degree
In Edinburgh
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Bachelor's degree
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Location
Edinburgh (Scotland)
The four year Undergraduate Programme leads to the award of the degree Bachelor of Nursing with Honours and eligibility to register as an adult nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) in the United Kingdom. The aim of the programme is to produce a graduate nurse who reflects the philosophy, values and competency skills required by the Nursing and Midwifery Councils (NMC) Standards (2010) and graduate attributes which reflect the University's aim to develop a high quality academic and professional nurse with critical, analytical skills for making a substantial contribution to the advancement of knowledge and practice.
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Subjects
- Nurse
- Nurse training
- Options
- Skills and Training
- Midwifery
- Mental Health
Course programme
The first two years provide an introduction to nursing care and theory, and to the sociological and psychological aspects of healthcare.
You will study the compulsory courses Life Sciences (anatomy- and physiology-based), Healthy Communities (investigating the impact of society on health), Professionalism and Evidence and Research. You will also choose an option course from a range of subjects.
You will gain clinical experience in your first year through community and medical ward placements
Year 2As well as progressing your study of Life Sciences, Healthy Communities, Professionalism and Evidence and Research, you will also study Mental Health and Wellbeing.
Your placements build on the Year 1 experience with a further community placement, mental health placement and surgical or outpatient experience.
Year 3You will continue to deepen your study of Professionalism and Evidence and Research, as well as undertake Managing Transitions which focuses on care of the older person. You will also choose two honours options.
Clinical experience includes care of the older person, a clinical experience linked to one of your honours options, and an intensive support experience. You will also choose a clinical work placement in the UK or abroad.
Year 4You will choose a further two honours options, study Professionalism 4 and complete your dissertation.
Your clinical practice will include an honours-linked placement and a 12-week placement consolidating your clinical competence.
Courses include:
- Cancer Care
- Care and Control
- Caring and Emotional Work
- Community Nursing
- Ethical, Legal and Social issues in Child Health
- Ethics in Health Care
- Gastrointestinal Nursing
- Issues and Developments in the Management of Pain
- Role of Complementary Therapies in Nursing
- Transplantation Nursing
- Loss and Death in Childbearing
- Care of older people: relating theory and policy to practice
- Health Promotion Practice
- Adult Endocrinology
- Critical Care Nursing
- Living with Chronic Illness
- Professionalism (Professionals in health care - team working)
- Evidence and Research: Approaches to Design and Methods
- Mental Health and Wellbeing
- Nursing Care and Decision Making
- Healthy Communities
Bachelor Nursing Studies