BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing

Year 1

Your first year introduces the basics of nursing and helps you develop key skills and knowledge to prepare you for practice. You’ll do two practice placements which give you the chance to experience working in different healthcare settings. Gaining insights into multi-professional teamwork within healthcare, you’ll learn that nursing is not just about the ‘doing’, but also about the thinking, reflection and provision of evidence to enable you to provide a safe and positive experience of caring.

Core modules

• ADN401 Core Concepts of Health

• ADN402 Introduction to Adult Nursing Care

• NRS403 Ways of Knowing

• NRS404 Professional Issues and Clinical Risk

• NRS405 Biology for Nursing Practice

• NRS406 Skills and Practice for Nursing

Year 2

In your second year, your enhanced knowledge will allow you to make more contributions to assessing, planning and delivering safe and compassionate person-centred care. You’ll have an increased responsibility in practice, and will develop competence in your core skills in hospital and community settings, public health, acute care, assessment and care delivery. You’ll learn to critically analyse and interpret data then apply it to your professional practice, enabling you to measure and deliver high quality care.

Core modules

• ADN202 Adult Nursing 2: Developing Nursing Care

• ADN203 The Biological and Therapeutic Basis for Adult Nursing Care

• ADN204 Skills and Practice for Adult Nursing (2)

• ADN205 Promoting Public Health and Wellbeing

• NRS204 Knowledge and Skills for Evidence-Informed Decision Making (1)

Final year

The learning, teaching and practice in your final year becomes more challenging, with more opportunities to show your commitment to delivering a high standard of care. Your knowledge will be more specialised, demanding higher level skills of synthesis, analysis and evaluation. You’ll develop vital management and leadership skills and have the courage to speak out for your patient. Your final year placements will focus on your transition from student to professional and your fitness for practice as a registered nurse.

Core modules

• ADN301 Adult Nursing: Competence in Nursing Care

• ADN302 Law and Ethics Applied to Nursing Practice

• ADN303 Year 3 - Skills and Practice for Adult Nursing (3)

• NRS301 Management, Leadership and Transition to Professional Practice

• NRS302 Knowledge and Skills for Evidence-Informed Decision Making (2)