You are in a unique and privileged position and play a key role in assessing, planning, implementing and evaluating the wide-ranging care needs of vulnerable people and their families. This requires hard work, commitment and excellent interpersonal skills.

If you are a motivated graduate with healthcare experience, this course gives you an exciting opportunity to work towards professional registration within two years, and prepares you for a fulfilling and successful career in adult nursing.

During the course you develop the essential knowledge and nursing skills required to care for people and their families in a variety of diverse settings, including hospital and community care. During these placements you participate in shift work, including weekends and nights.

You become a confident and competent skilled practitioner, capable of leading and managing the care of people and their families and as a resilient and future-ready nurse you hold strong professional values, exercise clinical judgement, challenge inequality, champion diversity and uphold the integrity of the profession while delivering high quality, person-centred compassionate care.

The course content reflects the changing and challenging nature of providing healthcare in the 21st century and the evolving and diverse role of the registered nurse. Leadership is embedded throughout the course, recognising the crucial role nurses play in moving practice forward. You work together with students from the child, learning disabilities and mental health fields of nursing courses to share your learning and experiences. There is emphasis on mental health and cognitive issues impacting on physical health and vice versa, and the essential need to consider biological, psychological and social care across the age continuum, bridging the existing gaps between healthcare services.