BSc (Hons) Professional Development in Nursing at University of Plymouth

Course Details

Specifically designed for international nurses wishing to study at degree level. Our course has been created with input from colleagues working in the health sector and the School of Nursing and Midwifery. The course will build on your current experience and skills enabling you to earn a degree in just one year. You’ll also gain the confidence and expertise to enhance your professional nursing practice and move your career forward.

This course is available to applicants who have previously studied their nursing qualification outside the United Kingdom.

Key features

• Focus on professional issues and development in your own field of practice, on a course that acknowledges the diversity in the work settings of registered nurses and provides educational opportunities for adult, child, learning disability and mental health nurses.
• Undertake a course developed alongside contemporary concerns about nursing which focuses on compassion, fundamental care skills and recognition of the standards of care and practice to ensure patients receive the highest level of care.
• Examine your own practice area, reflect on your own practice and have the chance to discuss and network with your peers, helping you to build professional networks and support whilst undertaking further study.
• Build your own self-esteem, motivation for learning and clinical decision-making skills and have the chance to improve your professional practice through critical analysis.
• Make the most of the various opportunities for inter-professional learning as part of the course delivery.
• Underpin your interventions with the best available evidence, contemporary knowledge and high-level clinical decision-making skills.
• Develop confidence, competence and emotional resilience to consistently exercise personal responsibility and professional accountability for decision making and the provision of high-quality safe care.

Please note that upon completion of this course you will not be able to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.