BN (Hons) Nursing (Adult) Bachelor's degree at the University of Portsmouth

Develop your academic skills and lifelong learning mindset, crucial for a successful academic career. As you gain academic awareness and an understanding of different perspectives, you'll be able to identify your own personal learning needs, formulate a development plan, identify and retrieve evidence and outline the concept of evidence based practice. By summarising evidence about a specific area of practice, you'll learn to critique health inequalities, understand public health, and the delive

Prepare for your first year clinical placements in this module. Through lectures about clinical and academic support, you'll develop resilience strategies for the workplace. You'll participate in practice-based learning and demonstrate your expertise and professional attitude – applying classroom theory to real nursing scenarios and cementing your knowledge, values, and skills in nursing practice. This module contributes to meeting NMC Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses. You'll also

Develop person-centred care skills that put patients and their families at the heart of nursing practice. Learn to view patients as equals when planning, developing and monitoring care and gain knowledge around legal, professional and ethical patient issues that impact nursing scope and boundaries. You'll build your understanding on the benefits and challenges of personalised care through reflective exercises of your values, attitudes and assumptions. By successfully applying your learning, you'

Learn the fundamentals of the science that informs healthcare practice in this module. You'll develop the communication skills needed to obtain patient histories and convey assessment findings to teams. You'll demonstrate a strong understanding on anatomical structures and physiological processes, including the major organ systems and learn to perform accurate physical checks, applying your abilities when evaluating and planning care. By gaining knowledge in the science that informs practice, yo

Develop your nursing knowledge and skills to care for acutely ill adults at various stages of their lives. Learn to assess deterioration of physical, psychological and mental health while providing safe, patient-centred holistic care. You'll build your ability to supply relevant interventions and support the needs of those during acute episodes of ill health. Through this module, you'll also meet the NMC Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses through your clinical learning.

Enhance your attitudes, values and knowledge towards safe and compassionate care in this module. You'll continue to participate in practice-based learning and demonstrate your expertise and professional attitude. You'll showcase your knowledge and skills in medicine management as you identify your learning and development needs through an action plan.

This dynamic module empowers you to find your voice as a member of an interprofessional team and enact positive change in healthcare. By evaluating the challenges faced by interprofessional teams in delivering safe, person-centred care, you'll be prepared to reduce and manage errors and near misses. Reflecting on human factors and behaviors that enable safety, you'll analyse the role of organisations and professional bodies, and how they deliver effective and quality improved care. When you fini

This dynamic module equips you with an in-depth understanding of research and evidence and how this informs decision making in healthcare. By exploring ethical considerations and selecting appropriate approaches, you'll explore the stages involved in the design and planning of a project in health or social care. You'll discuss the strengths and weaknesses of published evidence that inform practice and consider the barriers, enablers, and contextual factors surrounding evidence based decision-mak

Enhance your skills, knowledge, and understanding in delivering personalised care to patients with complex long-term conditions. You'll explore long-term conditions at various stages of patient lives, as well as their pathophysiology and impact on patients and their families. You'll also learn to work collaboratively across primary and secondary care, including with other professionals outside the NHS. Supported by academics and clinical experts, you'll enhance your self directed learning skills

Gain specialised insight into diverse, multifaceted areas of contemporary practice. Select a potential elective placement and topic for in-depth analysis – from safeguarding and dementia care to global public health or child mental health. Critically evaluate evidence around your chosen issue while considering the cultural, political and psychosocial influences on integrated healthcare. Deepening understanding of community health approaches and policies allows you to apply robust models that add

Prepare for your final placement by honing advanced clinical skills and professional values needed for safe, compassionate and complex care. You'll enhance your skills in care planning, medicines management and emergency priorities – including supervising junior staff. By compassionately managing caseloads and reflecting on patient-centred care, you'll be prepared to take on the responsbilities of a registered nurse and adopt the attitudes and values expected of the role.

Explore the organisation, management and delivery of safe care in this module. Through engaged discussion and critical evaluation, you'll apply ethical, legal, and professional frameworks to manage care efficiently. You'll develop your understanding of clinical governance and quality improvements by examining clinical leadership qualities and how they apply to personalised care. You'll discuss the importance of supporting equality and diversity when responding to legal and professional challenge

Drive positive change in healthcare and undertake a project in your chosen area of interest through this module. You'll get the opportunity to independently analyse a specific area of nursing practice and design a quality improvement project that solves a clinical issue. Drawing on evidence-based practice, you'll generate innovative solutions for enhancing service delivery in your chosen area of interest and build your knowledge on methods that introduce change in clinical practice. You'll be eq