A career in nursing is challenging, satisfying and life-changing. As a nurse you can make a positive difference to people’s lives every day. Our person centred post graduate nursing degrees will equip you to deliver exceptional care as a confident, capable and compassionate adult nurse.

The importance of our healthcare workers and the role they play has never been so evident. Find out more and apply now for a career where there’s demand.

Other courses from our School of Nursing and Allied Health can be viewed here.

Our programme is developed in partnership with our skilled academic staff, clinical practice partners and experts by experience. The course at Newman University, puts people at the centre of care delivery. As a post graduate nursing student at Newman you will develop into a professional nurse who can assess and manage the health needs of people, at some of the most challenging times of their lives.

Our aim is to support your development into a registered nurse who is able to work flexibly across a range of healthcare settings and meet the health needs of the whole person. We will work with you on your development to help you become a skilled, knowledgeable, emotionally intelligent nurse, able to lead and co-ordinate compassionate, evidence-based, person- and family-centred care while working as an integral member of the interdisciplinary team.

As a post graduate student nurse with Newman University, you will gain theoretical and practice knowledge to develop a range of key skills. This will include: exploring the evidence that underpins person- and family-centred care; professional values; self-leadership; and the role of the registered nurse.

As you progress through the programme you will explore evidence-based complex care incorporating a wide range of research, skills, team leadership and principles of coordinating care. You will be supported to build on your previous learning and develop proficiency in adult nursing. The modules you study will develop you as a leader who uses research-informed critical thinking to co-ordinate care, supervise other health professionals and gain confidence in the safe management of medication.

You will have individual support throughout the programme through a named personal tutor. The tuition will enrich your learning experiences and will enable you to reflect meaningfully on your practice and the development of your individual field identity.

As part of the course you will be provided with practice placements to help you develop your nursing skills and knowledge in a variety of settings. Your placement learning experiences may be within community, hospital or home environment settings and at a location anywhere within the West Midlands and potentially into neighbouring counties. You should be aware that placements are valuable learning experiences and cannot be chosen. While on placement you will be supported, supervised and assessed by practice and academic staff to develop your knowledge and skills.

We are committed to providing excellent, innovative, learning, teaching and assessment experiences, through lectures, seminars, skills simulation, virtual learning as well as meaningful input from our practice partners and experts by experience. As part of the course we will enable you to develop the independent learning skills that will equip you for lifelong learning and future employment, as well as academic achievement.

Whilst on the course you will benefit from some of the best university facilities of their kind, including clinical skills suites and our state-of-the-art immersive suite. Our experienced and enthusiastic teaching team will provide full support to help you achieve your ambitions.

• Funding – Adult Nursing students will receive at least £5,000 a year in additional funding for maintenance and associated study costs – see NHS release. Mental Health Nursing students will receive at least £6,000 a year in additional funding for maintenance and associated study costs – see NHS release.
• You will benefit from our new state of the art clinical simulation and immersive suites.
• We offer smaller class sizes and excellent academic and pastoral support for our students
• You will have the opportunity to study on an inter professional basis alongside other nursing and allied health students.
• Birmingham is one of the UK’s most diverse cities outside of London, which provides you with a wide variety of experience that will be valuable to take forward into your future career.
• Student finance – have you already had a student loan to study an undergraduate degree but would like to do a post graduate degree in nursing, midwifery or the allied health professions? You may still be eligible for funding.

Our adult/mental health nursing degree will enable you to become a registered nurse. You will learn from a highly experienced and passionate teaching team who will provide support to help you achieve your nursing ambition. Working with a number of practice partners you will gain practical experience on a range of clinical placements. The new clinical simulation facilities, include a state-of-the-art immersive lab, hospital wards, clinic environments as well as a community environment.

Find out here how our state of the art simulation equipment, and partnerships with leading healthcare trusts, will help you to prepare you for your chosen career.