This course aims to provide the advanced nursing knowledge and skills for you to provide high quality, safe, evidence-led, compassionate, and holistic person-centred nursing care to individuals, their carers and families across the lifespan. 

You’ll develop specialised knowledge, skills and the resilience you need to develop and influence future nursing practice, and health care through proactive leadership and practice development, aided by digital technology from an international, national and local perspective, with a research-informed focus. 

You will complete the necessary hours required by the National Midwifery Council, spending approximately 50% of the programme in academic theory learning and 50% in a range of diverse practice settings, where you will have supernumerary status, allowing you to learn and be supervised with ‘protected learning time’. 

On this programme, you’ll engage with contemporary research and gain a solid understanding of how to promote health and educate people on how to live healthier lifestyles. Assessing, leading, co-ordinating and delivering compassionate, sensitive and culturally informed care to people and their families at home, in the community or in hospital will also be explored. You’ll also build your understanding and skills of therapeutic interventions and the pharmacological management of disease, including the safe administration of medication. 

Clinical skills will be practised in a safe and controlled environment through simulation learning in our dedicated facilities, including clinical suites and replicated community settings, supported by digital health technologies. There’ll also be opportunities for shared learning and collaboration with students from related disciplines, which will develop your ability to appreciate the contribution other healthcare professionals make to people’s care and health outcomes.  

People who use services will contribute to learning on the programme through their lived experience of health and social care services. You’ll also examine how health education and promotion can be used throughout people’s lives and how ethical and legal issues inform healthcare.  

By the time you graduate, you could work as either a Registered Adult or Registered Mental Health Nurse in several areas, including hospital settings, community settings, health promotion, overseas aid and development, prison nursing. You could also work in universities or in policy making and implementation- such as Health Education England; Health commissioning, such as Integrated Care Systems or in specialist hospices and voluntary organisations.

Why study with us

• Enter the workforce sooner. This intensive programme will enable graduates to apply for dual registration (Adult and Mental Health) with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and practice as a Registered Nurse, after two years of study, compared to the usual three years. 
• Use simulation and real-world assessment strategies as part of your learning – this will enable you to successfully demonstrate practice-based skills and interventions to improve or aid the recovery of people with a range of health problems. 
• Develop your culture competence and knowledge of how cultural perceptions can influence health outcomes.  
• Build resilience and emotional intelligence and develop a solid understanding of what’s expected from you as an effective nursing practitioner.
• Feel supported with a dedicated practice learning team who will support your learning journey to ensure you get the most out of your placement experiences.  
• Inter-professional learning with peers on related programmes will support education and training of health and social care professionals to deliver safe, dignified, compassionate, person-centred care.