Nursing Studies (Registered Nurse Adult Nursing) with Foundation Year BSc (Hons)
Course Overview - Nursing Studies (Registered Nurse Adult Nursing) with Foundation Year BSc (Hons)
**Why choose this course**
• Access our Clinical Simulation Centre, including our wards and Critical Care Area, to practise real scenarios on lifelike adult manikins and actors.
•Benefit from a course that allows for 50% theoretical learning, 50% practical learning in clinical placements, to ensure you meet the requirements of our registering body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
•Learn from a multidisciplinary team of lecturers, who are all healthcare professionals with experience of working in the NHS. Many are also active researchers, investigating ...
**Why choose this course**<br/>• Access our Clinical Simulation Centre, including our wards and Critical Care Area, to practise real scenarios on lifelike adult manikins and actors.<br/><br/>•Benefit from a course that allows for 50% theoretical learning, 50% practical learning in clinical placements, to ensure you meet the requirements of our registering body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).<br/><br/>•Learn from a multidisciplinary team of lecturers, who are all healthcare professionals with experience of working in the NHS. Many are also active researchers, investigating topics like cancer, dementia, ethics and compassionate practice.<br/><br/>•Get the academic requirements needed to register with the NMC to work as an adult nurse once you’ve graduated. <br/><br/>**What you will study**<br/>On this course, you’ll gain experience of caring for people aged 16 years and over and will acquire an understanding of health and illness within the adult population.<br/><br/>In your first year, you’ll study topics that are fundamental to adult nursing, including the themes of ethics, anatomy and physiology, evidence-based practice, and public health promotion, ensuring you have a solid foundation upon which to build the rest of your degree.<br/><br/>During your second year, you’ll understand how to provide care for long-term conditions and gain an appreciation for managing transition in care, including breaking significant news to patients. You’ll develop your decision-making and leadership skills and will gain insight into how psychosocial, spiritual, ethical and legal influences have an impact on the way patient care is provided.<br/><br/>In your third year, you’ll learn how to effectively assess and manage deteriorating patients, analysing and debating a range of treatment options and evidence, to inform a choice of strategies for managing their holistic delivery of care, whilst developing as a professional ready for registration.<br/><br/>After graduating from our course, youll be a confident, autonomous practitioner, driven and committed to advocate and meet the needs of patients and their families, as outlined in the NHS Constitution.<br/><br/>**Foundation year**<br/>The BSc Nursing with foundation has an additional year of study designed to support your transition on to latter years of the course. You will study full-time for one year at foundation level, and after successfully completing it you will be ready to move on to the next three years of the course.<br/><br/>Students will be required to undertake some local insight days as part of their foundation year programme. These local insight days will be arranged by the University. Students will be responsible for associated costs (i.e. travel).
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Study Mode
Full-time
Duration
4 Years
Start Date
09/2026
Campus
Stag Hill
Course Address
Stag Hill
Guildford
GU2 7XH
Application Details
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Codes/info
Course Code
B743
Institution Code
S85
Points of Entry
Foundation
Entry Requirements
UCAS Tariff
Not Accepted
Scottish Higher
B,B,C,C,C
Overall: BBCCC Recent study within the last 5 years required. GCSE or Equivalent: Scottish National 5: English Language and Mathematics grade C. While not required, applicants with a C in National 5 Science will be preferred.
Access to HE Diploma
D:18,M:3,P:24
Overall: QAA recognised Access to Higher Education Diploma with 45 Level 3 credits overall including 18 at Distinction, 3 at Merit and and 24 at Pass Recent study within the last five years required. GCSE or Equivalent: English Language and Mathematics at grade 4 (C). Alternatively, Pass in Functional Skills in Literacy and Numeracy can be accepted in place of GCSE English Language and Mathematics. While not required, applicants with a 4 (C) in Science will be preferred.
International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme
Overall: For foundation year equivalencies please contact the Admissions team. Recent study within the last five years required. GCSE or Equivalent: English language A HL4/SL4 or English language B HL5/SL6 and mathematics (either course) HL4/SL4. While not required, applicants who achieve HL4/SL4 in a science subject will be preferred.
Pearson BTEC Level 3 National Extended Diploma (first teaching from September 2016)
GCSE/National 4/National 5
English Language and Mathematics at grade 4 (C). Alternatively, Pass in Functional Skills in Literacy and Numeracy can be accepted in place of GCSE English Language and Mathematics. While not required, applicants with a 4 (C) in Science will be preferred.
Scottish Advanced Higher
C,C,D
Overall: CCD Recent study within the last 5 years required. GCSE or Equivalent: Scottish National 5: English Language and Mathematics grade C. While not required, applicants with a C in National 5 Science will be preferred.
Extended Project
A
Applicants taking the Extended Project Qualification (EPQ) will receive our standard A-level offer for this programme, plus an alternate offer of one A-level grade lower, subject to achieving an A grade in the EPQ. The one grade reduction will not apply to any required subjects. Applicants can only receive one grade reduction from the published grades, an EPQ grade reduction can’t be applied in addition to other grade reductions made through other schemes such as Contextual Admissions or In2Surrey.
A level
C,C,D
Overall: CCD Recent study within the last five years required. We do not include General Studies or Critical Thinking in our offers.
T Level
P
Overall: Pass overall, with minimum D in the Core Component. GCSE or equivalent: English Language and Mathematics at Grade C(4) (equivalents may be considered). While not required, applicants with a C/4 in GCSE Science will be preferred.
WJEC Level 3 Advanced Skills Baccalaureate Wales
Overall: Pass overall with CCD from a combination of the Advanced Skills Challenge Certificate and two A-levels. Recent study within the last 5 years required. Please note: A-level General Studies and A-level Critical Thinking are not accepted. Applicants taking the Science Practical Endorsement are expected to pass. GCSE or equivalent: Please check the A-level drop down for the required GCSE levels.
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