Msc Adult Nursing

at Bangor University

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

To apply for the MSc Adult Nursing an applicant would normally have achieved a 2.1 honours degree in a health / life or social science related subject, within the last 5 years, and be able to demonstrate undertaken 700 hours of healthcare related experience which can be mapped to the NMC progression point one core competencies.  

In addition to the attainment of a suitable degree, the NMC require that all applicants must demonstrate evidence of communication and numeracy, and these must be demonstrated normally via GCSE at C or above in English or Welsh 1st language and Mathematics.

As this is a funded programme by the Workforce, Education and Development Service (WEDS) international students will not be able to apply for this programme of study.

The NMC also require that evidence of ‘Good Health and Good Character’ be obtained, and in addition to the supportive reference to the application, the School has adopted the All Wales Good Character reference. Good Character is further assessed by way of a Full/Enhanced DBS report, and these are risk assessed by the partnership in accordance with the School’s policy. Good Health is assessed by the local Health Board’s Health at Work Unit, and students are monitored throughout the programme and supported where required.

Tuition Fee Per Year

£ 18,750

Students successfully completing the MSc Adult Nursing are able to register their professional status with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and seek employment as a registered nurse.

Employability rates are high in comparison to other graduates, given the professional competence and qualification in association with a degree.  Career opportunities once employed as registered nurse are excellent and can lead to promotion opportunities in clinical practice/specialism, research or education.