Adult Nursing

Combining theoretical study with clinical experience within the NHS, independent and voluntary sectors, this course prepares you for a rewarding career caring for adults with varied healthcare needs.

Adult nurses play crucial roles in healthcare settings by restoring and promoting health, supporting patients and their families, and responding to the varied healthcare needs of individual patients or communities.

Thanks to strong links with service providers across the region – we can offer a range of placement opportunities embedded within all three years of the course. These opportunities are in field specific areas including dementia care homes, coronary care units, specialist medicine discharge teams, brain injury units, along with GP Surgeries and District Nursing Teams. Placements are typically provided across the East Midlands, in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and sometimes in surrounding counties. In your placement, you will work alongside practice supervisors and practice assessors to learn the practical application of nursing relevant to adult nursing.

During the course, students have access to updated facilities, utilising simulation suites complete with mock-hospital wards, Virtual Reality technology, high-specification CAE manikins and LearningSpace software; which records practical learning sessions allowing you to watch back and self-reflect on your practice.

You will share learning opportunities with students from the other fields of nursing practice but an also engage in field of practice specific learning opportunities throughout the programme, to ensure that you develop your identity, knowledge and skills within the adult nursing field of practice. The course also includes opportunities for interprofessional learning, with other health and care students, allowing you to collaborate with other allied healthcare students and professionals, and gain a wider understand of issues and debates in the sector.

With an excellent reputation and good links with the local NHS trusts and other potential employers, you will benefit from our NMC-accredited course when applying for jobs.

Key features

The course is accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and upon graduation, you will be eligible to register with the NMC.

Benefit from block teaching where you will study one module at a time and have a simplified timetable , providing a better study-life balance, along with more regular feedback and the opportunity to engage fully in other aspects of university life.

Learn from the teaching and research expertise of a highly-skilled and qualified team of academics, whose passion and commitment enables us to deliver high-quality professional education to our diverse studentship.

Study in our purpose-built facilities which comprise clinical skills suites, mock hospital wards, a moving and handling suite, and a cardiopulmonary resuscitation room– allowing you to apply theory to practice in a safe environment.

Our strong links with local health and social care providers allow you to experience real-world situations through clinical placements embedded in the course.

Have an opportunity to gain international experience as part of your studies with our DMU Global programme. Our adult nursing students visited the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to consider the incidence of acute and chronic kidney disease in the UAE, exploring treatment options, and visiting world class clinical areas.

Uniform policy

All students will be required to adhere to a uniform policy when in practice, in which they must be bare below the elbow. This is non-negotiable as it is an infection prevention requirement to safeguard the health and safety of all students and service users.