PgDip Adult Nursing
Overview
Exceptionally rewarding
Adult nurses help care for people over 18 who are ill, injured, or have physical disabilities. They monitor patients’ progress and, in conjunction with doctors and other members of the health care team, decide what care to give, as well as advising and supporting patients and their relatives. Although demanding and intense work, it can be exceptionally rewarding.
Our innovative two-year course will prepare you for a career in a wide range of rewarding adult nursing opportunities, including in general medical and surgical wards, as well as specialist units such as Accident and Emergency or intensive care. Many of our graduates take their first posts as qualified practitioners in the NHS Trusts and hospitals in which they gained experience.
Top-up to MSc
After graduating, you’ll be able to gain a Masters degree by completing a dissertation. Students who successfully complete the PgDip course have up to four years to complete the dissertation module via part-time study. This will incur an additional cost.
Why Nursing at LSBU?
- Professional accreditation: our courses are approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Student satisfaction: we’re the no. 1 London modern university for overall satisfaction with course in Health Professions (Guardian League Table 2018).
- Our PG Dip nursing course is designed to ensure that student develop well-rounded nursing knowledge, skills and attitude to represent a highly valued profession.
- Dedicated facilities: We have two adult nursing skills laboratories at our Southwark campus and three at our Havering campus.
- No.1 in the UK for graduate prospects in Nursing (Complete University Guide 2019).
Modules
Some compulsory skills sessions may take place in the evening.
You will be taught separately from the traditional three-year undergraduate students and will study the following:
Year 1
- Assessing, planning and providing care in Adult Nursing
- Applied physiology for Adult Nursing
- Promoting health and preventing ill health
- Pharmacology and medicines management in Adult Nursing
- Practice Experience Year 1
Year 2
- Enhancing and evaluating care in Adult Nursing
- Acute and complex care in Adult Nursing
- Mother and new-born
- Research in health and social care
- Transition to Leadership
- Practice Learning
- Dissertation (MSc only)
Top-up to MSc
After graduating, you’ll be able to gain a Masters degree by completing a dissertation. Students who successfully complete the PgDip course have up to four years to complete the dissertation module via part-time study. This will incur an additional cost.
Entry requirements
Applicants will be considered on an individual basis but will normally require:
- A Bachelor degree with a minimum 2:2 classification. Candidates without a health or science related degree are required to complete a Life Sciences work book package to satisfy the Life Sciences element of the APL portfolio.
- In accordance with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) requirements, Maths and English GCSEs/equivalent (at C or above) are also required.