BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) [Bolton Foundation NHS Trust] - Full-time

Bachelor's degree

In Bolton

£ 9,250 VAT inc.

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bolton

  • Duration

    3 Years

The University of Bolton’s Nursing (Adult) degree, offered in partnership with Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, is designed to prepare you for a successful career caring for people over 18. There is a shortage of qualified nurses in the UK, so the career opportunities are excellent.

You’ll spend 50% of your time in practice learning experience at our partner trust and study at the university will complement and enhance your learning in the workplace. We’ll support you as you learn to care for adults with acute and long-term illnesses, in hospital and at home, and gain expertise in health promotion and disease prevention.

Together with our partner trust, we’ll work to prepare you to become a confident, professional nurse, able to deliver and lead adult care within an ever changing health and social care environment. On successful completion of the nursing qualification you’ll possess the knowledge and skills you need to perform as an independent, highly competent, compassionate nurse who can be trusted to maintain professional standards and assure the protection of the public.

If you’re an ambitious nursing associate or assistant practitioner you may be able to join this course at Level 2 (HE5) and top-up your existing foundation degree to achieve the BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) in two years or less. This is a popular route for healthcare practitioners that recognises and values prior learning and experience. The top-up option is a well-recognised pathway to career advancement.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bolton (Greater Manchester)
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Deane Road, BL3 5AB

Start date

On request

About this course

On successful completion of the nursing degree, you’ll possess the knowledge and skills you need to perform as an independent, highly competent, compassionate nurse and work within the field of adult nursing.

You’ll gain key transferable skills including the ability to work independently, adapt to changing circumstances, work in teams and groups, and listen and respond to customers and their needs. You’ll become adept at forward planning and time management, rational decision making, critical thinking, physical assessment and gain excellent communication skills during your time in both university and practice settings.

Our BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) programme also offers a well-recognised pathway of career advancement for qualified nursing associates and assistant practitioners. If you already hold an appropriate foundation degree, you may be able to top-up your qualification and become an adult nurse in two years or less (the maximum possible exemption is 50% of the programme). This popular option recognises your prior learning and experience and allows you to take on full nursing responsibilities more quickly. It also opens the door to postgraduate study and provides a route for you to achieve your career ambitions.

Nursing is the largest healthcare profession in the country and offers excellent career opportunities and progression. The adult nursing degree prepares you for a wide range of rewarding opportunities in both general medical and surgical wards, as well as specialist departments such as intensive care, accident and emergency and cancer units. Indeed, most healthcare services require qualified nurses and there are also openings in general practice surgeries, nursing homes and hospices, outpatient day surgeries, community settings, home healthcare and mental health agencies.

Alternative Career Options
Public health
Management
Armed forces
Secondary schools
FE and HE teaching
Clinical research
Health promotion
Occupational health
Overseas aid and development
Prisons
Universities
Holiday companies
Voluntary organisations

Your Level 3 subjects must include a health and social care related subject; for instance, A-level Biology or BTEC Extended Diploma in Health and Social Care. Science, Psychology and other related subjects may be acceptable – please contact us for details. General Studies and Critical Thinking are not acceptable.

You must also have at least five GCSEs at grade C or above or grade 4 to 9 (or equivalent) including English Language, Mathematics and, preferably, Science. Please contact us for a list of acceptable GCSE equivalents.

The course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

On successful completion of the degree you’ll be eligible to apply for professional registration with the NMC.

Key Features:
We’ll work to enable you to learn an extensive range of nursing skills and techniques so that you can care effectively for adult patients in a variety of healthcare environments. Our ambition is for you to become a nurse leader of the future.
You’ll gain first hand work experience and have the opportunity to develop an invaluable network of professional contacts during your extensive time (50%) gaining practice learning experience at Bolton NHS Foundation Trust.
The theory elements of the course are delivered by professional expert academic tutors who come from a wide range of clinical and academic backgrounds. Theory sessions take place at both the University of Bolton and the Bolton NHS Foundation Trust, at their education centre at the Royal Bolton Hospital and at other NHS training facilities in the Bolton area.
Qualified healthcare practitioners contribute towards each of the modules, and are invited as guest speakers so that you have the opportunity to learn from their first-hand examples of current practice.
We also work to help you appreciate the views of health and social care service users and carers by involving them throughout the course.

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  • IT
  • University
  • NHS Training
  • Skills and Training
  • Community Nursing
  • Full Time
  • Leadership
  • Team Training
  • IT Management
  • Management

Course programme

Modules

Modules listed below are a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules as part of the course.

  • Principles of Nursing Practice
  • Managing Health Through All Stages of Life
  • Accountability and Professionalism
  • Wider Approaches to Global Health
  • Enhancing Clinical Skills: Assessing Planning and Providing Evidenced Based Care and Procedures and Interventions
  • Medicines Management
  • Coordinating Integrated Healthcare
  • Embedding Person Centred Care/Evidence Based Approaches
  • Advanced Clinical Skills and Procedures
  • Leadership, Management and Quality in Healthcare
Teaching, Learning And Assessment

Modern healthcare professionals require a range of skills and values and our practice partners and tutors will help you to gain experience of a range of clinical scenarios designed to develop your skills in a safe and supportive environment.

Your studies will be split with 50% dedicated to theory and 50% committed to practice learning experience at our partner Bolton NHS Foundation Trust (at the Royal Bolton Hospital and health centres and clinics in the trust’s catchment area – please note, considerable travelling may be required). As you progress through the course, we’ll guide and encourage you to draw on your practice learning experience while studying theory, and apply the theory you’ve learned to your practice, so that you can understand how the two complement each other.

The course explores the concepts of health and ill health within the adult population, and the key sciences in nursing, including the biosciences, psychology and sociology. Topics such as assessment, care planning, law, ethics and the importance of communication with service users and healthcare colleagues are covered. You’ll have the opportunity to learn about the importance of research and how its application in healthcare can transform the lives of patients and their carers, along with how to access and assess the latest research, and how to incorporate your findings into care plans and intervention strategies.

We’ll work to help you gain key transferable skills including the ability to work independently, adapt to changing circumstances, work in teams and groups, and listen and respond to customers and their needs. You’ll also be encouraged to develop forward planning and time management, rational decision making, critical thinking, physical assessment and communication skills during your studies. We aim for you to develop into a practitioner who is compassionate, kind and empathetic, who respects and supports the patient’s privacy, dignity and individuality, and who makes safe and effective clinical decisions.

The theory-based modules will be taught using a blended approach that includes lectures, presentations, simulations delivered by tutors, seminar discussions, small group workshops, small group and one-to-one tutorials, and using virtual learning environments (VLE) and e-learning packages. You’ll also need to undertake a significant amount of personal study, including general background reading, preparing for seminar activities, working on assignments and revising for examinations.

To help support your learning, the university also offers additional study skills sessions, such as essay writing, library skills and electronic searching, and numeracy.

A range of assessment methods will be used, including essays, reports, presentations, portfolios, set exercises via multiple choice questions, objective structured clinical examinations (OSCE), traditional examinations and assessment of practice within the practice setting. The assessment of practice and theory are equally weighted in their contribution to the degree award as a whole.

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.

BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) [Bolton Foundation NHS Trust] - Full-time

£ 9,250 VAT inc.