Program Overview

BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing

KEY FACTS

• Faculty: School of Health Sciences
• Study Options: Full Time
• Start Date: 2025
• Level: Undergraduate
• Course Length: 3 Years
• Qualification: BSc (Hons)
• Fees: All Students: £9,535 per annum
• Placement Option: Yes

About this programme

Developed and delivered by expert teaching staff, our BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing programme offers you the opportunity to learn the skills needed to become excellent providers of adult care and meet the demands of contemporary nursing practice.

Placements

The University’s strong relationships with the Gibraltar Health Authority (GHA), the Elderly Residential Services (ERS) and other practice partners mean that you’ll enjoy meaningful and relevant placements throughout the programme. These placements will see you put theory into practice and be an integral part of your journey to become a qualified nurse.

Possible placement locations

• Accident and Emergency (A&E)
• Acute Mental Health
• Critical Care Unit (CCU)
• Day surgery
• Dementia Ward
• District Nursing
• Elderly Residential
• General and Specialist Medicine
• General and Specialist Surgery
• Learning Disability
• Maternity
• Medical Investigation Unit (MIU)
• Mental Health Rehabilitation
• Operating Theatres
• Paediatrics
• Primary Care
• Rehabilitation Ward
• Renal Unit

Modules

• Year 1
  • Introduction to life sciences
  • Introduction to adult nursing
  • Introduction to public health and health promotion
  • Introduction to professional practice
• Year 2
  • Medication management and therapeutic approaches in Nursing
  • Assessment and care process for the acutely ill person
  • Collaborative working for health and well-being in adults with long term conditions
  • Developing professional practice
• Year 3
  • Developing evidence-based practice through research methods
  • The safe and effective co-ordinating of the care for adults with complex health care needs
  • Leadership for Practice
  • Advancing professional practice

Entry Requirements

• Typically, all applicants should have one of the following:
  • BBC at ‘A level’ (equivalent to 112 UCAS points), science or health related subject preferred or international equivalent.
  • Access to Nursing / Healthcare from the University of Gibraltar, minimum pass mark average of 60% from all of the assessments.
  • Science or health-based Access to HE course: Full Access Diploma with 45 level 3 credits and 15 level 2 credits of which 21 of the level 3 credits should be at Distinction and 18 at Merit.
  • Other Level 3 qualification equivalent.
• All applicants should typically have:
  • 5 GCSE’s A*– C (grade 4 or above post 2017) including English Language and Mathematics (Science also preferred) (or international equivalent).
  • Strong communications skills with the ability to communicate your ideas effectively in discussions, presentations and writing.
  • Basic IT skills, such as word-processing, email and Internet.

English Language Requirements

• An overall IELTS test result of 7.0, including a minimum of 6.5 in all sub-tests. Equivalent awards will be considered (e.g. Pearson’s Test of English, Cambridge Certificate of Advanced English, Duolingo English Test, City & Guilds International ESOL 8984, or the TOEFL- IBT test of English proficiency). If you do not meet our entry requirements, you can still apply as we will consider your application.

Fees

Scholarships

The University of Gibraltar hosts or directly offers a limited number of scholarship programmes to support your studies. These scholarships are highly competitive; they are available to support undergraduate, Master’s degree and PhD programmes and are made available to students based on certain criteria.

Student Accommodation

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