Nursing

We offer three courses that lead to professional registration as a nurse as well as giving you the academic award of a degree.

Adult nursing

"Adult nurses work with old and young adults with diverse health conditions, both chronic and acute. They juggle numerous priorities and use caring, counselling, managing, teaching and all aspects of interpersonal skills to improve the quality of patients’ lives, sometimes in difficult situations. Depending on experience and training, adult nurses can hold positions at most levels of the NHS career framework.

As a nurse in the adult branch you will be working at the centre of a multi professional team that includes doctors, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, pharmacists, radiographers, healthcare assistants and many others.

You will have close contact with patients and their families. As part of your training you'll learn how to assess, plan, implement and evaluate care for individual patients. To ensure consistency between nurses you need to record progress. You can be hospital based or work in the community (where more and more healthcare is being delivered)" NHS Careers

With this in mind our adult field is developed to enable students achieve the necessary knowledge, skills and professional attitudes required to care for adult patients so that on completion of the course they will be able to seek employment in a wide range of settings.

For further information on our adult nursing course.

Children's nursing

The child programme aims to reflect the changing epidemiology of childhood illness and consequent change in the role of the child nurse. It has been designed to focus on the core role of the child nurse – caring for a child with a health deficit and to acknowledge that this care now takes place in a range of settings, often with the hospital acting as a centre of assessment for many children whose main care is carried out in the community.

In addition the programme recognises the need for the child nurse to be aware of the new morbidity of childhood e.g. increasing recognition of mental health problems in childhood. The philosophy of the course is to develop a practitioner who can work with children and families acknowledging that the level of support required is determined not only by illness severity, but also by a complex interplay of social, cultural, economic and psychological factors. Central to the pathway philosophy is an awareness of the role of the family and the need to work with families.

For further information on our child nursing course.

Mental health nursing

Nurses who choose to specialise in the mental health branch of nursing work with GPs, psychiatrists, psychologists and others, to help care for patients with mental illnesses such as personality disorders, neuroses and psychoses.

Nursing in this area is complex and demanding. As many as one in three people will have a mental health problem at some point in their life, regardless of their age or background. Increasingly, mental health nurses visit patients and their families at home, in residential centres, prisons, specialist clinics or units, often doing shift work to provide 24-hour care. This is a valuable role that provides much reward and satisfaction.

For further information on our mental health nursing course.