Adult Nursing (with foundation year)

UCAS code: B7DF

Here's what Coventry University says about its Adult Nursing (with foundation year) course.

This degree combines theoretical and practice-based learning to lead you to professional registration and a rewarding career as an adult nurse.

Our degree with foundation year could be the stepping stone you need to achieve your goals. The foundation year aims to prepare you for degree-level study and is a great way to build the confidence, skills and knowledge needed to succeed on your degree course.

You can choose to study this course in Coventry or Scarborough.

Coventry location: The foundation year of this Coventry University degree will be delivered from our CU Coventry campus. Course delivery from year 1 of the degree onwards will be from the Coventry University campus. Scarborough location: All years will be delivered from the CU Scarborough campus.

Foundation Year The foundation year course helps you develop the necessary skills for degree-level study. In addition, you will also explore fundamental knowledge in areas such as anatomy, physiology and pathology, professional practice and approaches to health and wellbeing.

Degree Adult nurses work to improve people’s lives by offering comprehensive physical, emotional, mental and social support to people of all ages. This course aims to equip you with the knowledge, skills and behaviours required to independently address the diverse health and care needs of individuals across the lifespan.

• Successful completion of this course makes you eligible to apply for professional registration as an Adult Nurse with the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) (please see our website for more information).

• Gain the skills to deliver professional, impactful, evidence-informed care across a range of dynamic and diverse healthcare environments.

• Learn to collaborate and thrive as an adult nurse across and within multidisciplinary teams to coordinate safe, evidenced-based care delivery.

• Study one module at a time, with five weeks of learning followed by one week of assessment per module.

• All eligible learners on this course can apply for a minimum payment from the government of £5,000 per year. You can apply for additional payments if you incur childcare costs.

• 50% of your learning will take place in diverse practice-based learning environments where you will apply your theoretical knowledge to the real world.

Why you should study this course If you are compassionate, enthusiastic and committed, we can support you in developing the skills to deliver professional, evidence-informed care that truly impacts people’s lives.

Foundation year

• Supports you to gain the academic skills required for degree-level study.

• Provides a grounding in key areas of anatomy, physiology, health and wellbeing.

Degree

• Our approach supports you to develop a strong sense of professional identity and accountability as an adult nurse from day one.

• Develop your confidence and skills in preparation to lead, influence and supervise others.

• Delivered by a team that includes highly skilled, knowledgeable, nursing and allied health professionals.

• Develop your digital fluency, curiosity, critical and reflective thinking.

• Access to success coaches, placement supervisors and specialist support for mathematics and academic writing.

Please visit our website for the most up-to-date information.

Foundation Year The foundation year offers an introduction to your chosen subject and supports you to develop the skills required for degree-level study.

• Fundamentals of Anatomy and Physiology
• Fundamentals of Pathophysiology and Disease
• Introduction to Professional Practice and Regulatory Standards
• Approaches to Health and Wellbeing for the Health Professional

Degree All modules are compulsory. Year one

• Becoming a Professional Practitioner
• Evidence: Your Profession in a Global Context
• Nursing Assessment and Care Delivery
• Understanding Influences on Health and Care
• Placement 1: Introductions to Nursing Care
• Placement 2: Delivering Nursing Care

Year two

• Therapeutic Interventions in Adult Nursing
• Complex Decision Making Within Adult Nursing Environments *?Exploring Knowledge Through Curiosity
• Enhanced Approaches in Delivering Holistic Care
• Placement 3: Delivering Enhanced Nursing Care
• Placement 4: Delivering Complex Holistic Nursing Care

Final year

• Complex Care Coordination in Adult Nursing
• Leading for the Future as a Health and Care Professional
• The Evidenced-Based Practitioner: Professional Project
• Preparing for your Career in Nursing
• Placement 5: Coordinating Nursing Care
• Placement 6: Practising Autonomously

We regularly review our course content, to make it relevant and current for the benefit of our students. For these reasons, course modules may be updated. Before accepting any offers, please check the website for the most up to date course content.

*For further information please check the course page on the Coventry University website.

Foundation Year The foundation year will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module and may include:

• case study
• individual presentation
• essay
• numeracy test.

Degree This course will be assessed using a variety of methods which will vary depending upon the module.

Assessment methods may include:

• coursework
• practice placement
• formal examinations
• assessed discussions
• Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCEs)
• presentations.

The Coventry University Group assessment strategy ensures that our courses are fairly assessed and allows us to monitor student progression towards achieving the intended learning outcomes.