Adult Nursing

Course information

Adult Nursing BSc (Hons) UCAS code: B740 www.coventry.ac.uk/ug/B740

Study option: 3 years full-time

Overview

An Adult Nursing degree can lead to a career in one of the most rewarding, challenging and varied professions.

Adult nurses work with a wide spectrum of service users across a vast range of services and settings – from accident and emergency, critical care, medical and surgical wards to hospices, nursing homes, GP practices and in people’s own homes.

Coventry University trained nurses play a key role in developing and delivering outstanding clinical care and safeguarding patients’ rights.

The course aims to prepare you for the dynamic and fast changing health and social care system, developing you into an adaptable, flexible, reflective, proficient and compassionate practitioner.

You will study in the award winning Alison Gingell Building which features hospital wards, an operating theatre, critical care settings, community housing and other real-life nursing environments. Placements give you the opportunity to put your learning into practice in a real healthcare workplace.

Coventry University is ranked 4th in the UK for nursing and midwifery (Guardian University Guide 2020).

Indicative course structure

Year 1: ƒ The Scientific Foundations of Nursing Practice ƒ Fundamental Skills for Person and Family Centered Practice ƒ Study Skills for Evidence Based Practice ƒ Foundations of Evidence Informed Practice ƒ Health and Wellbeing in the Community ƒ Introduction to the Foundations of Nursing Practice (Practice 1) ƒ The Foundations of Nursing Practice (Practice 2) Year 2: ƒ Ethical and Legal Decision Making in the Context of Nursing ƒ Assessing Needs and Planning Care across the Lifespan ƒ Providing and Evaluating Care across the Lifespan ƒ Developing Evidence Informed Decision Making in Nursing ƒ Facilitation of Teaching and Learning in Practice ƒ Developing the Management of Care across the Lifespan (Practice 3) ƒ Managing Care across the Lifespan (Practice 4) Final year: ƒ Application of Complex Care in Integrated Care Settings ƒ Leadership and Management for Healthcare Professionals ƒ Evidence Based Project ƒ Contemporary Issues in Adult Nursing ƒ Transition to the Accountable Practitioner ƒ Coordinating Inter-Professional Health and Social Care (Practice 5) ƒ The Autonomous Practitioner (Practice 6)

Accreditation

Fully accredited by the UK Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). For more details on accreditations and renewals, see page 12.