Nursing (Adult)
University of Huddersfield
UCAS Code: B700 | Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
Entry requirements
A level
If you are studying A Level Science, the endorsement for practical work is essential and a requirement for entry to our degree course.
Access to HE Diploma
120-112 UCAS tariff points from International Baccalaureate qualifications.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
T Level
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from a combination of Level 3 qualifications. If you are studying A Level Science, the endorsement for practical work is essential and a requirement for entry to our degree course.
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About this course
**This course is now full for September 2023 and January 2024, the next available intake is January 2025**
Keen to step into a rewarding career by providing care for adults in community or acute settings? If so, this innovative Nursing (Adult) BSc(Hons) degree is for you. It’s been designed to provide a great foundation for your future career and help you make a real difference to the lives of others.
On this course, you’ll have the opportunity to gain key clinical skills and engage in simulation-based learning within a safe environment.
You’ll utilise human patient simulators to enhance your confidence, competence and understanding of patient care, and undertake clinical placements in various settings, throughout the NHS, as well as the voluntary and private sectors.
Throughout the course, you’ll learn the fundamentals of providing nursing care, progressing to understand complex needs, and leadership and management. You'll develop a range of skills, including communication and decision-making, whilst maintaining professional values.
**Why Study Nursing (Adult) BSc(Hons) at University of Huddersfield?**
You’ll learn how to respond to the physical, cognitive, and mental health care needs of patients and service users. You’ll build your confidence to become a competent, caring, and compassionate nurse, being taught by (and receiving support from) experienced lecturers, practice supervisors and assessors who know what it’s like to be an adult nurse.
You’ll hear experiences and viewpoints from service users and carers, who are part of the Public Partnership Group – and in 2024, the University’s new Daphne Steele Building will open on the site of the National Health Innovation campus. This allows our Adult Nursing students to benefit from specialist, clinical teaching facilities and world-leading research facilities.
After successfully completing the course, you could apply to register with the NMC and work as a registered nurse for adults in various settings.
**Professional Bodies**
This course is regulated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and has strong partnerships with NHS Trusts and private and voluntary organisations.
**Why Huddersfield?**
Huddersfield’s vibrant and friendly campus is a great place from which to study, while the town itself offers lots to see and do, with good transport links in and around the area.
**Not quite ready to start Nursing (Adult) BSc(Hons)?**
Successful completion of our Health Foundation Pathway will equip you with the foundation knowledge to study Adult Nursing.
Modules
This is a common first year and comprises:
• Becoming a Professional – Adult Nursing
• Introduction to Adult Nursing
• Nursing Practice 1
• Nursing Practice 2
• Understanding Knowledge and Evidence for Nursing.
To see the full range of modules and descriptions, please visit our website. A link to this course can be found at the bottom of the page in the ‘Course contact details’ section.
Assessment methods
Learning and teaching on this course is delivered through seminars, lectures, group work, simulation, and practical skills experience. Assessment methods involve a combination of coursework, practice/proficiency-based learning, reports, presentations, and examinations.
Laboratory sessions, classroom-based learning and the use of simulated patients enable you to practise your skills in a safe and controlled environment. You’ll learn and be assessed in a real practice setting, under the supervision of appropriately qualified practice supervisors and practice assessors.
You’ll be assessed whilst on placement through a Practice Assessment Document (PAD).
Tuition fees
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Extra funding
Please see our website for full details of the scholarship http://www.hud.ac.uk/undergraduate/fees-and-finance/undergraduate-scholarships/
NHS Funding
Students studying this course may be eligible to receive a non-repayable grant of at least £5,000 each year. Further information is available on the NHS Learning Support Fund Website - https://www.nhsbsa.nhs.uk/nhs-learning-support-fund
The Uni
University of Huddersfield
Department of Nursing and Midwifery (HDNM)
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