Nursing (Adult)

Leeds Trinity University

Our innovative Nursing (Adult) degree will enable you to develop the knowledge and skills needed for this rewarding career where each day gives you the opportunity to make a difference to people’s health and wellbeing.As an adult nurse, you will provide person-centred care throughout the spectrum of health and wellness through to acute and complex illness, long-term conditions and end-of-life care.About this courseAdult nurses work with people from a diverse range of cultures and backgrounds challenging inequalities and social injustices often linked with disadvantages which can negatively impact on people’s health and wellbeing.On this course, you will be able to develop as a competent and confident critically thinking adult nurse who can support, empower and advocate for the people you care for to positively impact their health and wellbeing outcomes.Throughout your studies, you’ll actively engage with contemporary research and gain a solid understanding of how to promote health and educate people how to live healthier lifestyles. You’ll learn how to assess, lead, co-ordinate and deliver compassionate, sensitive and culturally-informed care to people and their families at home, in the community or in hospital.You’ll build your knowledge and skills of therapeutic interventions and the pharmacological management of disease, including the safe administration of medication.You’ll learn and practise your clinical skills in a safe and controlled environment through teaching sessions in dedicated facilities, including clinical suites and replicated community settings, supported by digital health technologies.Through shared learning opportunities and collaboration with students from related disciplines, you’ll develop your ability to appreciate the contribution other healthcare professionals make to people’s care and health outcomes. Service users and carers will also contribute to your learning through their lived experience of health and social care services.

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