BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) at University of Bolton

The University of Bolton’s Nursing (Adult) degree, offered in partnership with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, is designed to prepare you for a successful career caring for people over 18. There is a shortage of qualified nurses in the UK, so the career opportunities are excellent.

You’ll spend 50% of your time in practice learning experience at our partner trust and study at the university will complement and enhance your learning in the workplace. We’ll support you as you learn to care for adults with acute and long-term illnesses, in hospital and at home, and gain expertise in health promotion and disease prevention.

Together with our partner trust, we’ll work to prepare you to become a confident, professional nurse, able to deliver and lead adult care within an ever changing health and social care environment. On successful completion of the nursing qualification you’ll possess the knowledge and skills you need to perform as an independent, highly competent, compassionate nurse who can be trusted to maintain professional standards and assure the protection of the public.

Course Highlights:

• The course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and on successful completion you’ll be eligible to register as a qualified nurse.
• After successful completion and gaining the nursing qualification you’ll be given the opportunity to apply for a Band 5 Nursing post with Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
• Your practice learning experience may be in a range of clinical environments within Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust which has a major trauma centre and a regional specialist centre for plastic surgery and burns, cancer (including radiotherapy, drug therapies and cancer surgery), disablement services such as artificial limbs and wheelchairs, neurosurgery and neurology (brain surgery and nervous system diseases) and renal (kidney diseases).
• You’ll have access to facilities in the flagship £31 million Bolton One building, including our state-of-the-art Clinical Simulation Suite where you’ll be able to practice skills and develop knowledge using clinical equipment and simulators.
• Our nursing courses are top in the in the UK for both teaching quality and student experience, according to The Times and The Sunday Times Good University Guide 2019.

Key Features:

• We’ll work to enable you to learn an extensive range of nursing skills and techniques so that you can care effectively for adult patients in a variety of healthcare environments. Our ambition is for you to become a nurse leader of the future.
• You’ll gain first hand work experience and have the opportunity to develop an invaluable network of professional contacts during your extensive time (50%) gaining practice learning experience at Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.
• The theory elements of the course are delivered by professional expert academic tutors who come from a wide range of clinical and academic backgrounds. Theory sessions take place at both the University of Bolton and the Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Education Centre.
• Qualified healthcare practitioners contribute towards each of the modules, and are invited as guest speakers so that you have the opportunity to learn from their first-hand examples of current practice.
• We also work to help you appreciate the views of health and social care service users and carers by involving them throughout the course.