Adult Nursing - BN: University of Southampton

Course Description
Adult nursing is about caring for people of all ages with critical and acute healthcare needs or longer-term and palliative requirements.
Health needs change as life events and sickness or injury affect people’s ability to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Care is given in a range of hospital and community settings. You will work with adults of all ages to assist with the restoration of health wherever possible and deliver high-quality care to those with continuing health and social needs.
Adult nurses may work in hospitals, but changing health needs and pressures have led to a rapidly increasingly community provision. You may work in a variety of settings, including walk-in centres, smaller community hospitals and in patients’ homes. Adult nurses also workstudent with patient in traction at the forefront of specialist areas such as intensive care, theatre and recovery, cancer care or care of older people.
During your training, you will complete practice experiences in a variety of settings, including hospital wards and clinics, as well as community settings such as nursing homes, patients’ own homes or in local health centres.
Course content

• Nursing practice
• Life sciences
• Social sciences
• Professional practice
• Study skills and information technology
• Inter-professional education
• Clinical practice
• Developing skills to registration

Entry requirements

• A levels: BN – BBC (BBB for Child); Diploma with Advanced Studies – CC (BB for Child)
• Intake: 520
• Average applicants per place: 6

Main University Contact

• Postal Address: University of SouthamptonUniversity RoadSouthamptonSO17 1BJ
• Tel: +44 (0)23 8059 5000
• Fax: +44 (0)23 8059 3131
• Email: admissns@soton.ac.uk
• Website: http://www.soton.ac.uk/