An elderly woman needing stitches and care after a car accident. A distressed alcoholic patient refusing treatment after a serious fall. A cancer patient returning to your ward, only 19 and no longer in remission. We’ve designed our course around the core values of the NHS constitution so that you understand what’s required in caring for and supporting vulnerable adults. Our aim is to make sure we prepare you for the challenges you may face and develop the expertise you’ll need to become a leader in nursing. You’ll spend half of this course on clinical placements in a variety of settings, these may include an operating theatre, accident and emergency, a community health centre, an intensive care unit, an outpatients department or a nursing home. When you’re on campus, you’ll practice clinical skills and techniques, such as how to manually take a patient’s blood pressure and how to give emergency care in our Clinical Simulation Suite. As well as practical skills, some of the topics you’ll explore in lectures include anatomy, infectious diseases, how poverty impacts on health, and the ethics of being an adult nurse in today’s society. All students must demonstrate in their personal statements an understanding of adult nursing in the UK incorporating the NHS core values and contemporary issues in nursing. Students must evidence an understanding of the qualities required to be a nursing professional in the UK in order to be shortlisted for an interview. Successful applicants will be subject to a video/face-to-face interview. This programme is subject to review in 2019 following the publication of the new NMC standards for nurse education. This course has a foundation year available. **Features and benefits** **- Foundation Year-** Integrated Health and Social Care available for those students who hold level 3 entry qualifications below the nursing tariff. **- Become a registered nurse-** As a graduate, you’re eligible to register as a nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). **- Real-world experience-** On this course you will spend an equal amount of time on clinical placements in community and hospital settings and at University on nursing theory. **- Extra qualifications-** You will have the opportunity to gain the added benefit of additional awards in Acute Illness Management and Mental Health First Aid by the end of the course. **- Outstanding facilities-** We have well equipped clinical skills lab complete with computerised sim-man manikins, used to demonstrate both basic and challenging conditions and nursing interventions. **- GCSE help-** If you don't currently have your maths GCSE, you'll have the opportunity to take our Maths Equivalency Test before enrolling, to help secure your place. **- Employability-** 100% of our Adult Nursing students are in employment six months after the course. (DLHE survey 2017, for all respondents available for employment or further study and whose destinations are known).