Course details

Nursing/Registered Nurse BSc (Hons)

Course details

Module listing

Please note that this is an indicative list of modules and is not intended as a definitive list. Those listed here may also be a mixture of core and optional modules.

Year one

  • Establishing and Maintaining Relationships: Therapeutic Communication for Nursing (Interprofessional Foundation Programme)
  • Science of Nursing
  • Foundations of Nursing (field specific)

Year two

  • Evidence for Effective Nursing
  • Applying Clinical Reason and Decision Making in Nursing (field specific)
  • Implementation and Evaluation of Nursing Care (field specific)
  • Therapeutic Pharmacology (field specific)
  • Clinical Reason and Decision Making in Nursing
  • Needs Assessment in Nursing (field specific)

Year three

  • Complexities of Nursing (field specific)
  • Complexities of Service Provision (field specific)
  • Developing Nursing Practice Through Research and Innovation
  • Personal and Professional Development of the Nurse (field specific)
  • Leadership, Management and Team Working
  • Health Improvement in Nursing (field specific)

Constants/themes throughout the three years

(Modules may not contain all of these themes but will be represented across the whole programme.)
Compassionate Skilled Nurse

  • Professional Values
  • Quality of Life
  • Medicine Management
  • Safeguarding and Risk
  • Life Span
  • Life Sciences
  • Managing and Maintaining Relationships
  • Self Awareness and Reflection
  • Working with Diversity and Anti-Discriminatory Practice
  • Nursing Skills (essential skills clusters)

Learner and Educator

  • Study Skills
  • Self Awareness and Reflection

Leader and partner

  • Ethics and Law
  • Managing and Maintaining Relationships

Researcher and Innovator

  • Research and Literacy Skills
  • Creativity and Problem Solving Skills