| Program start date | Application deadline |
| 2024-09-01 | - |
| 2025-09-01 | - |
| 2025-04-01 | - |
Program Overview
This BNursing (Hons) degree prepares students for caring for adults in healthcare settings, meeting the Nursing and Midwifery Council's proficiency standards. With equal focus on practice placements and classroom learning, graduates are well-equipped for rewarding nursing careers in various healthcare organizations and beyond. Through innovative teaching methods and state-of-the-art facilities, students develop essential skills to provide compassionate evidence-based care for diverse populations.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
This practical BNursing (Hons) degree course (equivalent to a BSc Honours in Nursing) will give you the skills and experience you need to care for adults in a range of healthcare settings. These standards set out the knowledge and skills you as the next generation of adult nurses will learn, to enable you to deliver world-class person-centred, evidence-based care. With equal time spent on practice placement and in the classroom, you will graduate ready to find rewarding work as a nurse.
Outline:
- Year 1:
- Compulsory modules:
- Personal Health and Wellbeing
- Sciences Underpinning Safe and Effective Nursing Practice
- Understanding Health and Illness
- Accountability and Professional Leadership in Nursing Practice
- Foundations of Evidence for Nursing Practice
- Part 1 Nursing Practice
- Year 2:
- Compulsory modules:
- Personal Effectiveness for Professional Practice
- The Science of Nursing Decision-Making
- The Health Promoting Nurse
- Leading and Managing Nursing Care
- Evaluating Evidence for Translation into Nursing Practice
- Part 2 Nursing Practice
- Year 3:
- Compulsory modules:
- Enhancing Professional Practice
- Transitioning to Being a Registrant
- Art and Science of Person-Centred Care
- Leading Innovation and Improvement in Nursing Practice
- Part 3 Nursing Practice
Teaching:
- Teaching staff are highly committed, passionate subject specialists.
- You will have a personal tutor to guide you through your course.
- You will receive regular personalised feedback on your progress in theory and practice components.
- Access to a variety of practice placements, thanks to many partners.
- High-tech, innovative resources that make your classes fun and engaging.
- State-of-the-art facilities including a simulation centre, virtual reality facilities, and immersive rooms.
Careers:
- Many nursing graduates begin their careers with local NHS Trusts or healthcare organisations which can offer a range of roles and opportunities to develop.
- Other career paths include:
- Counselling
- Education
- Management
- Medicinal Chemist
- Therapy
- Policing
- Social Working
- Private Sector
Other:
- You will learn how to:
- Provide, lead and coordinate care that is compassionate and evidence-based.
- Care for people in healthcare settings including their own homes, in the community and in hospital.
- Help promote health, protect health and prevent ill health.
- Empower people, communities and populations to take control of their own health decisions and behaviours.
- Care for people of different ages, backgrounds, cultures and beliefs.
- Care for people with complex mental, physical, cognitive and behavioural care needs.
- Care for people at the end of their life.
- Work across health- and social care services.
- Play a proactive role in multidisciplinary teams.
- Think critically and apply your knowledge and skills.
- Provide expert, evidence-based nursing care.
- Be emotionally intelligent and resilient, while managing your personal health and wellbeing.
- The course is offered at the University of West London campus and the Berkshire Institute for Health in Reading.
- You should choose a course location that you can travel to easily.
- Placement partners include:
- London North West Healthcare NHS Trust
- West Middlesex Hospital
- Croydon Health Service NHS Trust
- Ashford and St Peter’s NHS Foundation Trust
- Private, voluntary and independent organisations.
- You can continue your studies at UWL to enhance your clinical knowledge and skills in a specialist area.
- UWL also offers Continuing Professional Development (CPD) courses for healthcare practitioners. These are a series of short courses developed in conjunction with NHS partners and are designed to enhance your knowledge, skills and competencies and help you fulfil your career aspirations.
£9,250 – UK
