BSc (Hons) Nursing (Adult) Bachelor's degree at the University of Leeds

This module introduces you to a range of essential ideas like personal and patient safety, nursing across our lifespans, centring care on both families and individuals and using evidence. You'll look at several different areas of health, ranging from skin conditions to mental wellbeing, and understand how they affect one another. A week of clinical practice will provide you with valuable first-hand nursing experience.

Here, you will develop your knowledge of working with adults (and how to maximise their wellbeing) before embarking on an assessed placement. You'll work within nursing's professional, ethical and legal frameworks while developing your resilience and teamwork skills, learning how to manage medications and considering other factors like family systems and spiritual beliefs. You'll also learn about how we make decisions and consider people's experiences in the process.

This module will reinforce the importance of teamwork in nursing, and show you how to deal with issues like unconscious bias. You'll be taught numeracy skills to make medicine calculations effectively, how to care for adults with mental health problems, and how to deal with grief, loss, death and dying. Towards the module's end you'll undertake guided independent work to prepare for next year's studies.

In this module you'll take on your second assessed practice placement, working with an awareness of nursing's frameworks and your own limits. You'll learn to co-ordinate with and delegate to other people, working more effectively as a team in the process. Evaluation is also a key consideration here; you'll look at measures of quality, risks in care environments and even new technologies like artificial intelligence.

This module explores the attitudes and values that impact people with long-term conditions like asthma, heart conditions and ulcers. You'll look at the influence of culture and diversity on health, and learn about promoting health and wellbeing amongst hard-to-reach groups. You'll also learn how we manage long-term conditions and co-morbidities, and consider health and wellbeing issues on local, national and global scales.

Here, you'll develop your understanding of helping people with more serious medical conditions and how to work best with various teams and agencies. You'll learn how to recognise the needs of vulnerable people, protect patients from bullying and coercion and how to encourage patients to express themselves creatively. You will also complete your third assessed placement during this module.

In this module, you'll identify an area of nursing practice that raises questions for you and produce a research question inspired by it. With this to hand you'll search for literature, appraise evidence, present an argument, make practice recommendations and suggest areas for further research.

This module will help you understand what's best for individuals with complex needs. You'll learn how to assess individual patients, the ethics of new technologies, how to have difficult conversations and how to deal with uncertainty. You'll also learn how to respond to different kinds of deterioration in adults and older people (with evidence shaping your choices) and how to deal with increasing levels of responsibility. Your fourth assessed placement will take place here.

At this point you will look back at your personal strengths and weaknesses in the run up to starting a nursing role. You'll be able to demonstrate leadership skills and that you can provide high quality care to patients. You'll also think about how an organisation's culture can affect the care that a patient receives, and how you can be affected by compassion fatigue, burnout and PTSD.