Advanced Nursing

Description

Nursing isn't a career that's for everybody. Nursing graduates need commitment, understanding and sensitivity to be able to care for people who can be vulnerable - whether for physical, psychological or social reasons. The Bachelor of Nursing programme will help you build both theoretical and clinical experience, specialising in one of four fields.

Glasgow Caledonian University is one of the largest nursing education providers in the country. With a fully-equipped stimulated ward area on campus, studying at GCU gives you access to excellent facilities. You're also close to Scotland's leading hospitals.

Adult Nursing
If you're looking for varied professional career options and choices, adult nursing is a good area in which to specialise.

You'll learn how to care for old and young adults with many different health conditions. Some of the skills you'll gain include caring, counselling, managing and teaching - and how to juggle your many responsibilities. You'll also learn how to improve the quality of patients' lives, sometimes in difficult situations, and will spend 50% of the course gaining practical experience in various clinical placements - from Accident and Emergency to people's own homes.

Depending on your experience and training, as an adult nurse you can reach many positions in the NHS, including community staff nurse posts.

Children's Nursing
If you relish the challenges and rewards of caring for children, this programme is designed to give you the necessary skills and knowledge. You'll acquire a sound knowledge of child development, learning and developing through observation as well as through exposure to clinical and community practice.

Because children's nurses practise within a complex and challenging health care system, this programme encourages you to work in partnership with doctors, hospital play staff, radiographers and physiotherapists. Children's nursing incorporates a range of age groups from newborn to adolescent. It will provide you with the necessary skills and knowledge to meet their health care needs and those of their families and carers. As a children's nurse you will be expected to practise within a complex and challenging health care system. To enable you to meet these challenges you will learn to work as part of a team with children, families, carers and allied health professionals.
Learning Disability Nursing
Learning Disabilit Nurses work with people in many different settings, and patients range from younger people to older adults.

This is a career that also offers variety in how and where you work with people: with community-based services and in-patient settings, as well as more specific areas. Examples of these areas include community partnerships and complex needs or forensic services.

Once you've qualified, as a Learning Disability nurse, you'll have many opportunities for career development, with a lot of flexibility if you want to pursue new goals. In fact, many of GCU graduates are making use of their skills and knowledge in a number of places around the world. Further opportunities include an MSc in Mental Health and Learning Disabilities, as well as Doctoral study.

Mental Health Nursing
A career in the area of mental health brings specific challenges, but can be extremely rewarding.

There are many career pathways to choose from in a mental health nursing career. Within these, nurses might also choose to develop specialist roles - for instance, as a specialist clinical practitioner, academic researcher or nurse consultant. This programme also encourages you to study with other professional student groups, such as Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Radiologists and Social Workers.

As well as clinical posts such as staff nurse or charge nurse, your career path could include management posts - for example, lead nurse or senior nurse. Alternatively, you might want to aim for academic posts such as lecturer, researcher or practice education facilitator.

Detailed Course Facts

• English

Course Content

To meet the professional requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council, the programme runs over a 45-week academic year for each of the 3 years. Please note that the programme is currently under review so module titles may be subject to change.

Adult - Year 1: Introduction to Adult Nursing, Adult Clinical Practice 1, Interprofessional Education modules including Foundations for Practice, Psychology, Sociology, Physiology.
Year 2: Caring for adults with long term conditions, Unscheduled Care, Adult Clinical Practice 2, Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing, Interprofessional Evidence-based Practice.
Year 3: Management and Leadership, Nursing Adults with complex needs, Adult Clinical Practice 2, Interprofessional Investigating Professional Practice.

Child - Year 1: Introduction to Children, Young People and Family Nursing, Young People and Family Clinical Practice 1, Interprofessional Education modules including Foundations for Practice, Psychology, Sociology, Physiology.
Year 2: Children, Young People and Family Health, Acute Short-term Care, Children's, Young People Clinical Practice 2, Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing, Interprofessional Evidence-based Practice.
Year 3: Management and Leadership, Nursing Children and Young People with Chronic and Complex Needs, Children's and Young People Clinical Practice 3, Interprofessional Investigating Professional Practice.

Mental Health - Year 1: Introduction to Mental Health Nursing, Interprofessional Education modules including Foundations for Practice, Psychology, Sociology, Physiology.
Year 2: Theories and Models of Mental Illness, Person-centred Approaches to Care Delivery, Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing, Interprofessional Evidence-based Practice.
Year 3: Management and Leadership, Contemporary Approaches to Mental Health Nursing Practice, Working with complex health and care needs, Psychological Approaches in Mental Health, Interprofessional Investigating Professional Practice.

Learning Disability - Year 1: Introduction to Learning Disability Nursing, Learning Disability Clinical Practice 1, Interprofessional Education modules including Foundations for Practice, Psychology, Sociology, Physiology.
Year 2: Developing Therapeutic Interventions for Complex Needs, Developing Partnership with Children, Families and Professionals, Learning Disability Clinical Practice 2, Perspectives on Health and Wellbeing, Interprofessional Evidence-based Practic.
Year 3: Management and Leadership, Forensic Learning Disability Nursing, Learning Disability Clinical Practice 2, Interprofessional Investigating Professional Practice.
Work placement: Students undertake clinical practice for 50% of the course within a variety of placements mainly within Greater Glasgow and Clyde Health board. These include NHS, community and hospital placements as well as independent and voluntary sector experience. During these placements, students are involved in nursin activities including providing care for a range of patients relevant to their chosen nursing pathway.

Learning Disability students: Students have the opportunity to participate in the Family Placement Scheme spending time with a family who have a child with a learning disability a school placement, forensic placement and a community nursing placement. There is also the opportunity to undertake a 6 month internship at Crotched Mountain Rehabilitation Centre, New Hampshire, USA, in Year 2 of the Learning Disability Programme.

Assessment: A variety of assessment methods are used including Objective Structured Clinical Assessments, oral presentations, written, individual and group project work, essays and assessment of clinical practice.

English Language Requirements

CAE score : 60(Grade C)

To study at this university, you have to speak English. We advice you to

Requirements

Higher: BBC, A Level: CC, ILC: BCCC. Candidates must satisfactorily pass a health screen and a criminal record check and attend an information session to meet NMC requirements.

Work Experience

No work experience is required.

Related Scholarships*

• Academic Excellence Scholarship

  "The Academic Excellence Scholarship can provide up to a 50 % reduction in tuition per semester. These scholarships will be renewed if the student maintains superior academic performance during each semester of their 3-year Bachelor programme. The scholarship will be directly applied to the student’s tuition fees."

• Access Bursary

  Bursary for UK students all subjects where the variable tuition fee rate is payable.

• Alumni Bursary

  Alumni Bursary for UK Undergraduate students

* The scholarships shown on this page are suggestions first and foremost. They could be offered by other organisations than Glasgow Caledonian University.

Accreditation

On successful completion of the programme, graduates are eligible for registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.