draft MSc Nursing Studies Adult (Pre-registration)

Program Overview

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Overview

This exciting and innovative MSc route offers graduates from any background the opportunity to transfer their graduate skills and harness them in becoming a nurse.

Recognising the changing context of healthcare, and the profile of nurses needed, the MSc Pre-Registration Nursing Studies (adult) course aims to equip graduates with advanced critical thinking skills, as well as the practical skills and competencies needed to deliver compassionate, competent, person-centred, effective, safe and high-quality healthcare

MSc graduates will be expected to make a significant contribution to ‘improving lives’ at an individual, community and global level. While working in partnership with health and social care professionals to meet the needs of patients, clients and service users, they will also contribute to public health outcomes through education and health improvement interventions.

The course benefits from a strong emphasis on interprofessional education whereby students are able to learn with and from other health and social care professionals.

The MSc also offers a unique opportunity for graduates to progress academically to master's level while gaining registration in the United Kingdom as an adult nurse.

Graduate opportunities include employment in a diverse range of healthcare settings within the UK and internationally.

Please note that  the January 2024 intake for this course is now closed to new international applicants. It remains open to applications with

Home and RUK fee status.

Program Outline

What you

will study

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To prepare students for their future role they will engage and become active participants within the learning process, learning collaboratively and individually.

This will include the use of the virtual learning environment and the state-of-the-art interprofessional simulation suite where student nurses will develop the skills to prepare them for the variety of clinical learning experiences they will encounter throughout their programme.

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Module list

The Art and Science of Nursing; Developing Nursing Skills; Practice Learning Experience Part 1 (MSc); Interprofessional Working: Context, Organisations and Practice; Promoting Values-based Nursing in Contemporary Practice; Person-centred Adult Nursing; Global Health; Enhancing Nursing Skills; Practice Learning Experience Part 2 (MSc); Leading and Managing Complex Care in Adult Nursing; Dissertation; Practice Learning Experience Part 3 (MSc).

Download the Programme Specification

for a detailed breakdown of its structure, what you will learn and other useful information.

Details of the University’s terms and conditions are available here.

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Assessment methods

Assessment is viewed as an integral and core element of the learning process. Students are encouraged to discuss, interpret, analyse and evaluate information at a depth appropriate for their academic level, and in doing so, become active, self‐directed participants in the educational process.

Assessment strategies include care studies, essays, patchwork assessments, reflective portfolios, OSCAs and OSCEs, examinations, seminars, presentations, debates, vivas, projects and dissertations.

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Industrial work placement

Glasgow Caledonian University have an excellent working partnership with our local health providers, collaborating closely with clinical colleagues to plan and deliver your programme. The programme is 50% theory and 50% practice.

You will benefit from experiences in both community and acute placement settings within NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Golden Jubilee National Hospital. You will undertake eight placements during your programme which are spread across each year of the programme.

Students will work alongside their Practice Supervisor(s) and are required to work both day and night shifts, according to the shift pattern used within the practice setting. This allows the student to experience care as it is provided 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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Professional accreditation

On successful completion of the programme, graduates will gain entry to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register as an Adult Registered Nurse.

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Work placements

This course includes a work placement.