Learn from expert clinical practitioners at the heart of one of the UK's largest healthcare regions. Gain invaluable hands-on experience treating patients through our exclusive placement opportunities and embark on a rewarding career making a real difference to patients' lives.
Start your journey to nursing
Delivered in partnership between the university and renowned Birmingham healthcare organisations, this course prepares you for safe and contemporary practice and employment as a registered nurse in adult nursing practice. Throughout the duration of your course, you will learn biological, pharmacological and social sciences, nursing theories, systems, processes and an advancing range of nursing skills that enable you to lead, manage and deliver effective person-centred nursing practice. You'll also study medicines management including the completion of safe drug calculations.
Empathy towards patients and caregivers and an insight into how the public experience healthcare is essential and knowledge of how this is evaluated and continuously improved is a key component of the course. Emphasis is placed on developing your ability to research and study independently and with colleagues and to reflect and reason systematically in a critical and evidence-based way.
You will have the opportunity to experience clinical practice in our dedicated clinical simulation suites alongside undertaking a range of diverse and exciting clinical placements related to adult nursing. This will allow you to gain a variety of experiences with a wide range of client groups, under the guidance of skilled clinicians, through our exclusive Birmingham NHS Trust partners.
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Why study this course?
- Interdisciplinary teaching: Benefit from inter-professional learning opportunities studying alongside students on medicine, dentistry and pharmacy courses which will prepare you for working in today's interdisciplinary healthcare teams.
- Shared first year: Our common first year maximises your learning and experience of holistic nursing, allowing you to experience a variety of healthcare environments.
- World-renowned teaching: You will be taught by leading academics and clinicians many of whom publish important research about their area of nursing expertise.
- Exclusive relationships for placements: Our strong partnership agreements lead to effective placements in Birmingham NHS Trusts. You will be exposed to a diverse range of patients and health conditions as you experience working in one of the largest healthcare regions in the UK.
- Elective experience: At the end of your second year, you will have the exciting opportunity to undertake a four-week elective placement. Your elective placement can be in any healthcare setting in the world to give you a wider perspective of nursing around the globe.
"This has been an unbelievable place to learn Nursing. There's so much opportunity to work with a diverse range of patients"
Rory Fisher, BNurs Nursing Alumnus