Program Overview

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Course Details

The University of Bolton is offering the BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) degree in an innovative partnership with Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Airedale NHS Foundation Trust, using facilities at Bradford College. Taught at Bradford College by University of Bolton staff, the programme 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 trusts and study with 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 trusts, 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.

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Highlights

The course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and on successful completion you’ll be eligible to apply to register as a qualified nurse.

After successful completion and gaining the nursing qualification you’ll be given the opportunity to apply for a Band 5 Nursing post with Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust or Airedale NHS Foundation Trust.

Your practice learning experience may be in a range of clinical environments in Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Airedale NHS Foundation Trust. Together these trusts operate a number of hospitals that provide care to over 700,000 people and a wide range of community services across the trusts’ catchment areas.

You’ll have access to facilities at Bradford College, including the purpose-built Clinical Simulation Suite where you’ll be able to practice skills and develop knowledge using clinical equipment and simulators.

Our Nursing courses have been placed in the top ten in the UK and first in the North West of England for student satisfaction for the third year running by the Complete University Guide 2021.

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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 Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Airedale 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 Bradford College.

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.