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Nursing Studies (Registered Nurse Adult Nursing) with Foundation Year BSc (Hons)

University of Surrey

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  • Qualification

    Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)

  • Location

    University Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    SEP

  • Duration

    4 Years

Course summary


Why choose this course

• Access our Clinical Simulation Centre, including our wards and Critical Care Area, to practise real scenarios on lifelike adult manikins and actors.
• Benefit from a course that allows for 50% theoretical learning, 50% practical learning in clinical placements, to ensure you meet the requirements of our registering body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
• Learn from a multidisciplinary team of lecturers, who are all healthcare professionals with experience of working in the NHS. Many are also active researchers, investigating topics like cancer, dementia, ethics and compassionate practice.
• Get the academic requirements needed to register with the NMC to work as an adult nurse once you’ve graduated.


What you will study

On this course, you’ll gain experience of caring for people aged 16 years and over and will acquire an understanding of health and illness within the adult population.In your first year, you’ll study topics that are fundamental to adult nursing, including the themes of ethics, anatomy and physiology, evidence-based practice, and public health promotion, ensuring you have a solid foundation upon which to build the rest of your degree.During your second year, you’ll understand how to provide care for long-term conditions and gain an appreciation for managing transition in care, including breaking significant news to patients. You’ll develop your decision-making and leadership skills and will gain insight into how psychosocial, spiritual, ethical and legal influences have an impact on the way patient care is provided.In your third year, you’ll learn how to effectively assess and manage deteriorating patients, analysing and debating a range of treatment options and evidence, to inform a choice of strategies for managing their holistic delivery of care, whilst developing as a professional ready for registration.After graduating from our course, you'll be a confident, autonomous practitioner, driven and committed to advocate and meet the needs of patients and their families, as outlined in the NHS Constitution.


Foundation year

The BSc Nursing with foundation has an additional year of study designed to support your transition on to latter years of the course. You will study full-time for one year at foundation level, and after successfully completing it you will be ready to move on to the next three years of the course.Students will be required to undertake some local insight days as part of their foundation year programme. These local insight days will be arranged by the University. Students will be responsible for associated costs (i.e. travel).

Tuition fees

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£ 15,000per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

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University of Surrey

University of Surrey

  • University League Table

    12th

  • Campus address

    University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey, GU2 7XH, England

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Nursing & Midwifery

    19th out of 82 2

  • Entry standards

    / Max 208
    147 70%

    11th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    98.0 98%

    26th

    32

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.11 78%

    20th

    8

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