BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing

You’ll have access to diverse placement opportunities, including Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust and Leeds Community Healthcare Trust – within secondary and regional care units, community teams and GP practices. Spending 50 per cent of your time on practice placements, you’ll develop the practical skills needed to care for adults with acute and long-term illnesses across a variety of settings.

Some of the exciting projects you can apply for include:

• Working with the medical services at Leeds and Download Festivals
• Headstart
• The final year Community Scheme

You’ll also be able to focus on areas of personal interest within healthcare during the volunteering strand of the course."

Teaching And Learning

Independent study is a crucial part of learning at university and you will be required to undertake many hours of self-directed research and reading, and preparation and writing of assessments. Your course is delivered through a number of modules, which will help you to plan your time and establish a study routine. Outside of your lectures, workshops and tutorials, a range of support is available to assist with your independent study. Our subject-specific librarians will be on hand to direct you to the specialist learning and study-skill resources. You’ll also be assigned an academic advisor to give you tailored feedback and support.

On successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Platform 1: Being an accountable professional: Act in the best interests of people, putting them first and providing nursing care that is person-centred, safe and compassionate which embraces enhancements in digital health technologies. They act professionally at all times and use their knowledge and experience to make evidence-based decisions about care. They communicate and manage relationships effectively using a range of approaches, are role models for others, and are accountable for their actions. They critically reflect on their practice and keep abreast of new and emerging global, national, and regional developments in nursing, health and care.
• Platform 2: Promoting health and preventing ill health: Play a key role in improving and maintaining the mental, physical and behavioural health and well-being of people, families, communities and populations. They support and enable people at all stages of life and in all care settings to make informed choices about how to manage health challenges to maximise their quality of life and improve health outcomes. They are actively involved in the prevention of and protection against disease and ill health and engage in public health, community development and global health agendas, and in the reduction of health, inequalities using digital applications and social prescribing to support their work.
• Platform 3: Assessing needs and planning care: Prioritise the needs of people when assessing and reviewing their mental, physical, cognitive, behavioural, social and spiritual needs. They confidently and critically identify and use data and information obtained from a range of sources during assessments to identify the priorities and requirements for person-centred and evidence-based nursing interventions and support. They work in partnership with people to develop person-centred care plans that take into account their circumstances, characteristics and preferences.
• Platform 4: Providing and evaluating care: Appraise the evidence base to provide compassionate, personalised nursing care, procedures and interventions to evaluate the effectiveness of nursing care planned and come to sound clinical judgements about the effectiveness of nursing actions. Using reflective skills to develop aesthetic knowledge, ensuring the care they provide is person-centred, of a consistently high standard and evaluated in partnership with people, families and carers to ensure care has been provided in line with their wishes, preferences and desired outcomes.
• Platform 5: Leading and managing nursing care and leading teams: Provide leadership by acting as a role model for best practice in the delivery of nursing care. They are responsible for managing nursing care and are accountable for the appropriate delegation and supervision of care provided by others in the team including lay carers. They play an active and equal role in the interdisciplinary team, collaborating and communicating effectively using a range of techniques and with a range of colleagues.
• Platform 6: Improving safety and quality of care: Make a key contribution to the continuous monitoring and quality improvement of care and treatment using evidence-based approaches, to enhance individual and population health outcomes and people’s experience of nursing and related care. They assess risks to safety or experience and take appropriate action to manage those, putting the best interests, needs and preferences of people first.
• Platform 7: Co-ordinating care: Provide leadership, co-ordinate and manage complex nursing and integrated care needs of people at any stage of their lives, across a range of organisations and settings. They contribute to processes of organisational change through an awareness of local and national policies.

Successful completion of this course will provide you with the eligibility to register with the Nursing & Midwifery Council. You’ll take part in employability sessions that will allow you to experience a simulated shortlisting panel and interview, undertake workshops with employers, and attend recruitment events, all designed to help you excel during the recruitment process.

• Adult nurse
• Health visitor
• Psychotherapist