Nursing (Adult) BSc (Hons)

Adult nurses play crucial roles in healthcare settings by restoring and promoting health, supporting patients and their families, and responding to the varied healthcare needs of individual patients or communities.

During this course – thanks to strong links with service providers across the region – we can offer a range of placement opportunities embedded within all three years of the course. These opportunities are in field specific areas including dementia care homes, coronary care units, specialist medicine discharge teams, brain injury units, along with GP Surgeries and District Nursing Teams.

Placements are typically provided across the East Midlands, in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and sometimes in surrounding counties. In your placement, you will work alongside practice supervisors and practice assessors to learn the practical application of nursing relevant to your chosen field.

During the course, students also have access to updated facilities, utilising simulation suites, VR technology and LearningSpace software. LearningSpace enables a 360-degree view of your simulation training environment which can be recorded and played back at any time, to help with assessments and self-reflection of your practice.

With an excellent reputation and good links with the local NHS trust and other potential employers, you will benefit from our NMC-accredited course when applying for jobs. This course is structured through Inter-professional (IP) learning. Allowing you to collaborate with other allied healthcare students and professionals, and gain a wider understand of issues and debates in the sector.

You will share learning opportunities with students from the other fields of nursing practice but an also engage in field of practice specific learning opportunities throughout the programme, to ensure that you develop your identity, knowledge and skills within the adult nursing field of practice.

Key features

• The programme is accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and upon graduation of the programme, you will be eligible to register with the NMC.

• Benefit from the teaching and research expertise of a highly-skilled and qualified team of academics, whose passion and commitment enables us to deliver high-quality professional education to our diverse studentship.
• Develop your nursing skills and competencies in immersive facilities including mock hospital wards and a moving and handling suite which come complete with the latest simulation teaching resources.
• Our strong links with local health and social care providers allow you to experience real-world situations through clinical placements embedded in all three years of the course.
• DMU is one of the few universities in the country to offer block teaching, an innovative approach to teaching where you will study one or two modules at a time, instead of several at once. Benefit from faster feedback, a simplified timetable and a better study-life balance.
• Have an opportunity to gain international experience as part of your studies with our DMU Global programme. Recently our adult nursing students visited the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to consider the incidence of acute and chronic kidney disease in the UAE, exploring treatment options, and visiting world class clinical areas.