Masters Compare - Find your perfect masters course.
Masters Compare - Find your perfect masters course.
Study Details: 2 years
This course provides the opportunity for those who have studied an undergraduate degree to undertake a two-year full-time Master's course and upon successful completion receive eligibility for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). The course helps you to develop the skills required in order to become a confident, competent, caring and compassionate adult nurse. Using a person-centred approach, you will learn how to facilitate recovery of service users in various settings, including those who are acutely ill, those in community services and those experiencing long-term conditions across the lifespan.
The course will assist you to develop both practical and theoretical skills, in order to achieve your full potential as an adult nurse and meet the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards.
This challenging and intensive course comprises 50% theory and 50% practice, where you will undertake placements in a range of settings. The course runs over two years, each year comprising of a number of compulsory modules, where you will have the opportunity to study alongside students from the other fields of nursing.
Teaching takes place in innovative and contemporary teaching and learning environments, including a fully equipped simulated ward, with our patient simulator, Sim Man, before you go out on to placements and treat real patients.
Students studying this course may be eligible to receive a non-repayable grant of at least £5,000 each year. Further information is available on the NHS Learning Support Fund Website.
You must have the following:
An Honours degree (2:2 or above) and work experience relevant to the programme to be followed. Applicants with an Honours degree and considerable relevant experience may also be considered if they can demonstrate their ability to study at Masters level.
If successful at interview, applicants are required to successfully demonstrate that they have completed 550 hours of theory through studying/reading and a minimum of 700 hours of practice before they start the course using a Pre-Entry Portfolio. Students will have 700 hours of practice verified in the Pre-Entry Portfolio. A broad range of experience can be used for this including observations and reading. Your experience and learning may have occurred outside a typical 'practice' area but may still be applicable, for example you may have worked in a public-facing professional role in which you have demonstrated values relating to the professional standards that registered nurses must uphold (Nursing & Midwifery Council 2018).
Previous graduates from courses in this subject area have gone on to work in a variety of roles such as Adult nurse, Children's nurse, Health play specialist, Health visitor, High intensity therapist, Learning disability nurse, Mental health nurse, Midwife, Paramedic, Physician associate.
Core Modules:
Becoming a professional - Adult Nursing
Developing critical knowledge and skills in Adult Nursing
Developing research knowledge and evidence for Adult Nursing Practice
Introduction to Adult Nursing
Nursing Practice 1
Understanding knowledge and evidence for nursing
Developing as a professional
Nursing Practice 2
Being a professional
Enhancing knowledge and skills in Adult Nursing
Nursing Practice 3
Using evidence and research to enhance Adult Nursing practice
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