Bangor University is a public university in Bangor, Wales. It received its Royal Charter in 1885 and was one of the founding institutions of the federal University of Wales. Bangor University today is a thriving, forward-looking institution offering excellent opportunities. Around 10,000 students currently study with the institution and teaching and research is grouped into nine academic Schools. Bangor University has a long tradition of excellence and exceeds expectations, both for academic standards and student experience. The University is committed to sustainable development and global citizenship. It aims to promote sustainability in research, business and enterprise activities.

You’ll gain the necessary knowledge skills and behaviour required to meet statutory requirements to register as a practicing adult nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. When you graduate you’ll have a thorough understanding of the competencies principles and processes that underpin safe and effective person-centred care delivery and the ability to apply knowledge and principles to various care settings.

This course will develop you as an autonomous reflective practitioner who has the qualities and values needed to deliver safe and effective care. You will develop leadership and management skills which can be further developed on qualification enabling the practitioner to develop practice promote and sustain change delegate supervise and manage self and others whilst contributing to the planning designing delivering and improvement of future services.

Throughout the programme practice placements are designed to provide a range of adult nursing experience. You’ll have compulsory theoretical study and clinical placements in acute and community hospitals in North Wales. During placements you are supernumerary and this allows you to work alongside your mentor and participate in delivery of nursing care. Support is available from a personal tutor who is a registered nurse and an academic member of staff and mentorship supervision from a practicing registered nurse on placement. Theoretical and practical work is assessed through assignments examinations presentations and the All-Wales Assessment of Clinical Practice portfolio.

Course Structure
Year 1

Principles of Adult Nursing
Legal & Ethical Concepts
Adults with Chronic Conditions
Physiology & Pathophysiology
Nursing Practice 1 PGD
Year 2

Adults with Complex Needs
Lead Innovate and Implement
Clinical Decision Making & Evidence Based Practice P
Nursing Practice 2 PGD
Teaching Learning and Assessment
The teaching and learning strategy for the course will take a student-centred approach and build on the graduate skills developed during your first degree. Whilst there will be some taught lectures for each module the main emphasis will be on working as a group to develop your knowledge clinical decision making skills and finding solutions to real life problems.

You will need to book the accommodation after you have been accepted.

You can choose to live on campus or off campus in private accommodation.

• Make a booking online after you have been accepted (in this case please let us know your choice when you apply).
• Register when you arrive - its not possible to reserve a room before arriving. You can arrive a few days before and book it