Manchester Metropolitan University
BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing (Top Up)
Manchester, United Kingdom
BSc
DURATION
18 months
LANGUAGES
English
PACE
Full time
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Mar 2026
TUITION FEES
GBP 5,375 *
STUDY FORMAT
On-Campus
* EU and non-EU international students full-time fee: £5375 per 30 credits per year.
Key Summary
An older woman needing stitches and care after a car accident. A distressed alcoholic patient is refusing treatment after a serious fall. A cancer patient returning to your ward, only 19 and no longer in remission.
This course is an entry route for Registered Nursing Associates to join our existing cohort of students on the BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing degree course.
We’ve designed our course around the core values of the NHS constitution so that you understand what’s required in caring for and supporting people. Our aim is to make sure we prepare you for the challenges you may face and develop the expertise you’ll need to become a leader in nursing.
You’ll spend half of this course on clinical placements or simulated practice in a variety of settings, which may include an operating theatre, accident and emergency, a community health centre, an intensive care unit, an outpatient department, or a nursing home.
When you’re on campus, you’ll practice clinical skills and techniques, such as how to give emergency care in our Clinical Simulation Suite.
As well as practical skills, some of the topics you’ll explore in lectures include how poverty impacts health, leading and managing in healthcare, and the ethics of being an adult nurse in today’s society.
All students must demonstrate in their personal statements an understanding of adult nursing in the UK, incorporating the NHS core values and contemporary issues in nursing. You must evidence an understanding of the qualities required to be a nursing professional in the UK in order to be shortlisted for an interview. Successful applicants will be invited to attend an online group interview.
Features and benefits
- Approved course - This course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Employability - 95% of BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing graduates are employed/in further education six months after graduating. (Graduate Outcomes survey 2020/21 graduates – UK, full-time, first degree respondents. Contains HESA Data © HESA 2023 hesa.ac.uk)
- Teaching excellence - Ranked 11th in the UK for nursing (The Guardian University Guide 2023)
- Become a registered nurse- As a graduate, you’re eligible to register as a nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
- Real-world experience - You will spend an equal amount of time on clinical placements in community and hospital settings, and attend University studying nursing theory.
- Enhanced Content - You will have the opportunity to gain the added benefit of an additional experience in Acute Illness Management.
- Outstanding facilities - We have well well-equipped clinical skills lab complete with computerised sim-man manikins, used to demonstrate both basic and challenging conditions and nursing interventions.
- Shared learning- Opportunity for shared learning with other undergraduates and learning with the mental health nursing students within the integrated elements of the course.
Course information
This course is designed for registered Nursing Associates only, recognising prior learning, and allows candidates to join the existing BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing degree halfway through their training.
Adult nursing specialises in caring for and supporting vulnerable adults in a variety of settings, including hospitals, the community, and the independent and voluntary sectors.
Nursing is a challenging profession, both mentally and physically, which carries a great deal of responsibility. Adult nurses care for people across the lifespan, including young adults and others with acute and long-term illnesses. They work as part of a multi-disciplinary team alongside doctors, physiotherapists, anaesthetists, pharmacists, dieticians, and many others.
This course provides an equal balance of theory and practice learning with placements in both the hospital, community, and simulated settings. We believe immersing our students in the reality of the profession as they train better prepares them for the challenges of nursing practice upon qualification. Developing highly employable, accountable nurses.
You will learn how to assess the needs of the patient, communicate effectively with professional colleagues, and provide sensitive support for the patient and their families. You will also develop leadership and management skills required to motivate and supervise others.
Year 1
This year will focus on the concepts of health for all, health inequalities, health behaviour, and support you to develop a greater understanding of your role as promoters of health within the sphere of the public health agenda. There will be a focus on anti-discriminatory practice and application of the principles of partnership, collaboration, and working across boundaries.
You will focus on developing and contributing to risk monitoring and the quality of care improvement strategy, whilst recognising how governance plays a pivotal role in your practice and the provision of services across healthcare. The practice skills you will have brought to the programme will be further enhanced within the role of the registered nurse, and you will undertake a comprehensive assessment and develop an understanding of commonly encountered problems in practice.
Core modules
- Developing into an Accountable Professional
- Developing Governance in Practice
Year 2
In Year 2, you will apply the knowledge acquired from Year 1. The focus will be on developing critical, autonomous, and accountable professional nurses for practice who will lead and deliver person-centred, evidence-based care.
In Year 2, we create simulations of a patient’s journey from admission to discharge. Scenarios we’ve set our students in the past include major trauma management, with a patient involved in a motorbike accident who needs stabilising, emergency care with a patient who has suffered a heart attack, and ward management to show you the day in the life of a nurse working a shift on a busy ward.
Core modules
- Being an Accountable Professional
- Translating Evidence into Practice
- Medicines Management
- Leading, Managing, and Evaluating Complex Care
When you graduate, you’ll gain a Bachelor of Science degree and eligibility to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as an adult nurse.
As a registered nurse, you might work at one of our partner NHS trusts, where you completed a placement experience, or you might move into the private or voluntary sector.
Many of our graduates work as staff nurses in NHS hospitals in the UK and go on to become ward managers or specialist nurses, but you could develop your nursing career in a GP practice, care home, school, hospice, prison or the Armed Forces.
You might decide to specialise in a particular field of nursing and continue with postgraduate study. We have a range of postgraduate courses to support your professional development.
Study
- Year 1 30% lectures, seminars or similar; 50% placement; 20% independent study
- Year 2 25% lectures, seminars or similar; 50% placement; 25% independent study
Assessment
- Year 1 75% coursework; 25% examination
- Year 2 75% coursework; 25% examination