Nursing (Adult) MSc

Sheffield Hallam University

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Course summary:

• Build on your undergraduate experience and become a fully-qualified nurse in two years.

• Become eligible for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as a qualified adult nurse.

• Gain vital real-world experience; 50% of your course is spent on placement.

• Obtain sought-after postgraduate credentials, with a NHS Band 5 prospective starting salary.

• Nurses are an integral part of a multidisciplinary team. In some modules, you will learn and collaborate with students from other health and social care courses. This approach will help you to deliver person centred-care with an understanding of how other professionals contribute to the person's journey through health and social care services.

How you learn:

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

This course equips you with the expertise, interpersonal skills and managerial ability needed for adult nursing. You'll study theory and practice in our modern facilities, and you'll apply your skills across 40 weeks of practice-based learning. These placements take place across the region, with leading healthcare providers. Throughout, you'll be supported by the College of Health, Wellbeing and Life Sciences, and will be assigned suitably prepared practice supervisors, and practice assessors. Graduation ensures your eligibility for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

You learn through:

• practice-based learning

• study in our advanced clinical suites

• lectures and seminars

• examination

• coursework

• case studies

• presentations

Applied learning Theory will prepare you for practice learning experiences are designed to help you not only to apply theory to practice, but to develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice in order to become life-long, competent professionals. You are required to attend the practice learning experiences provided on the course to achieve the course practice learning outcomes.

You’ll undertake a range of practice learning experiences, helping you to build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity and curiosity. This will take place in different practice learning environments, reflecting the range of ways in which services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements alongside real world experience of services delivered face to face to service users.

The university will ensure that the practice learning element of your course will be compliant with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) governing your chosen profession. This is so that by the end of your course, you will have been provided with the opportunity to demonstrate attainment of the requirements to register as a professional with your chosen profession.