Nursing Degrees
Our Nursing courses will give you the specialist skills, education and training to prepare you for the workplace.
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There are few careers that are as rewarding, or that allow you to work with such a variety of people. Learn in our Clinical Simulation Centre which replicates clinical environments for education and training, including a fully equipped ambulance simulator.
Why Study Nursing?
From becoming a registered nurse to tailoring your career into a specific healthcare profession, USW can help you to take the next step.
Nursing Courses
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An ageing population and increased expectations from the public will inevitably mean greater demands on NHS services based around acute deterioration and critical care needs in the future. Healthcare professionals need to be fit for purpose and deliver a high-quality service.
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The Acute and Critical Care course will provide you with the knowledge, skills and understanding to assess, care for and manage patients using current evidence-based practice and applied physiology, while drawing on the legal and professional aspects that impact upon your role and responsibilities
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The MSc Advanced Clinical Practitioner will allow you to develop your skills at an advanced level, thereby meeting the requirements set by National Leadership and Innovation Agency for Healthcare (NLIAH).
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Step into leadership and management by completing our Nursing and Midwifery Council registered Specialist Practitioner Qualification in Community Children's Nursing (SPQCCN).
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Step into leadership and management by completing our Nursing and Midwifery Council registered Specialist Practitioner Qualification in District Nursing (SPQDN).
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The course will provide opportunity for healthcare professionals to be forward thinking practitioners who are armed with ability to utilise current evidence-based practice and to problem solve in a more autonomous manner.
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The course will allow students to grow and develop as questioning and autonomous practitioners. This course is designed to develop your knowledge and understanding and ability to demonstrate application and clinical competence which will be evidenced through Critical Care Steps 2 competencies and Critical Care Steps 3 competencies.
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The Postgraduate Certificate in Education for Health Care Professionals is specifically designed to prepare registered health care professionals to develop and adopt an educational role across a range of settings, both academic and practice based.
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The award will focus on preparing a range of experienced healthcare professionals to manage the complex needs of service users in dynamic healthcare settings, whist also developing as either an educator in practice or a clinical or service manager.
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This CertHE Health Care Nursing Support Worker Education course provides a career development pathway for Health Care Support Workers (HCNSW) that, upon graduation, allows you to apply for Band 4 Assistant Practitioner Roles or to continue your professional development.
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This course has been developed to reflect the advanced levels of knowledge and skills required to become an Independent Prescriber. Fundamental to this course is that pharmacists, midwives, nurses, paramedics and physiotherapists will be taught alongside one another and assessed using the same assessment criteria.
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Become a registered adult nurse, training in state-of-the-art clinical facilities and experiencing a range of real healthcare settings.
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This course provides a 2-year route to nurse registration for those who already possess an undergraduate honours degree and have practical experience in health and/or social care. The course is validated by the Nursing & Midwifery Council and upon completion of the course students are able to apply for registration with the NMC.
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Accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, this course enables eligible candidates to work towards Registered Nurse status, gain a degree qualification in one of four specialist fields of nursing, whilst continuing their contracted hours in employment as a healthcare support worker.
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This three-year child nursing degree combines theory and practice in an innovative way, to focus on the care of children across a wide range of healthcare settings
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Accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, this course enables eligible candidates to work towards Registered Nurse status, gain a degree qualification in one of four specialist fields of nursing, whilst continuing their contracted hours in employment as a healthcare support worker.
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Study full or part-time to become a qualified nurse specialising in supporting children and adults with learning disabilities on this accredited course. Our Teaching and Research team is made up of adults with learning disabilities who advise on what’s important to them.
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This course utilises simulation to facilitate an understanding of the art of nursing and to learn and practice of nursing skills and procedures. The course is validated and regulated by the Nursing Midwifery Council. On completion of the programme students are able to apply for registration with the NMC.
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Accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, this course enables eligible candidates to work towards Registered Nurse status, gain a degree qualification in one of four specialist fields of nursing, whilst continuing their contracted hours in employment as a healthcare support worker.
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This degree will help you become a confident mental health nurse, blending theoretical knowledge with essential clinical experience. Learn key skills in mental health care, therapeutic relationships, public health, and clinical placements in clinical settings, ensuring comprehensive, person-centred care.
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This course provides a 2-year route to nurse registration for those who already possess an undergraduate honours degree and have practical experience in health and/or social care. The course is validated by the Nursing & Midwifery Council and upon completion of the course students are able to apply for registration with the NMC.
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Accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, this course enables eligible candidates to work towards Registered Nurse status, gain a degree qualification in one of four specialist fields of nursing, whilst continuing their contracted hours in employment as a healthcare support worker.
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Palliative care is an essential part of holistic care, and by definition is an approach that is fundamentally a multi-professional one. This distance learning course combines excellent resources and support from the course leader, which allows you to combine both study and professional commitments.
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The MSc Professional Practice course focuses on the professional development necessary for higher level practice and leadership roles. On successful completion, you will have gained an internationally recognised qualification that is designed to prepare healthcare professionals and professionals in the health and social care sector take up posts within health and social services globally.
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The Public Health Masters recognises that health challenges can be more global than a single country’s population, but that local policy and regulation responses will vary from country to country.
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The course will enable the student to develop, refresh and enhance knowledge, skills, professional values and proficiencies required of a registered nurse to re-enter or remain on the NMC professional register within their intended field of practice.
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Gain the knowledge, interpersonal skills and managerial capabilities to practice confidently, competently and effectively
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Gain the knowledge, skills, enhanced interpersonal skills and managerial capabilities to practice confidently, competently and effectively.
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Our Glyntaff campus is in the heart of the South Wales Valleys, with beautiful scenery and rolling landscape. There’s always something happening or new places to discover.
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100% of our research impact is recognised as internationally excellent
Specialise in a certain field, develop leadership and management skills
Why USW?
100% of our research impact is recognised as internationally excellent
Specialise in a certain field, develop leadership and management skills