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Nursing (Adult) BSc Honours

Gain professional experience on placement at London's leading hospitals and learn in some of the UK's most advanced training facilities to develop your nursing career
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Code
B740
Start
September 2024
Duration
3 years full-time
Attendance
Full-time
Fees
9,250 (UK)*
£16,000 (INT)*
Course leader
Year 1 Esther Jacob
Year 2 Aine Feeney
Year 3 David Ring and Kirstie Dye

Developed in partnership with the NHS trusts, this course will see you spend 50% of your time on placements with our partner hospitals. You’ll learn the essential nursing skills needed to take effective care of adult patients in a live environment.

Why choose Nursing (Adult) BSc at Middlesex?

Our highly-regarded course is based at the West Stand, at the StoneX stadium, Barnet which was recently part of a £23 million redevelopment.

You'll practice your clinical skills in fully equipped four-bed hospital wards and ICU suites. Use realistic patient mannequins or the latest VR simulations and receive evidence-based video feedback.

What you will gain

Our tutors will provide you with an excellent education, career guidance and opportunities from day one. Your skills will be developed through placements at our prestigious partner hospitals across north London.

Our lecturers are experts and active in their field:  Middlesex academic, Emilie Ewards, received an award for her work in improving care and support for neurodivergent pregnant women and maternity staff (Educator of the Year Award at the 2022 Nursing Times Awards). And MDX lecturer, Kelly Ncube, has expanded a life-saving volunteering programme in Ghana.

You'll become an independent, self-motivated practitioner, able to reflect on your practice and adopt a critical and analytical approach to the care of adult patients.

After graduating, you will have a degree accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and excellent career prospects – 90% of our nurses are working in healthcare six months after graduating.

Accreditations

Our Nursing (Adult) BSc Honours degree is accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) which means the course is professionally recognised for being of the highest quality, focused on developing the knowledge and skills that employers require.

3 great reasons to pick this course

  • Ranked 2nd in London
    For Nursing and Midwifery by the Guardian University Rankings, 2022
  • New state-of-the-art facilities
    Study in our West Stand facilities. These include our simulation labs with our Lucina VR equipment, the first one in a UK university to simulate an entire birth
  • Student satisfaction
    89% of students were positive about the quality of learning resources and facilities on their course (National Student Survey 2023)

What you will learn

Our dedicated academic staff will teach you the essential nursing skills needed to effectively take care of adult patients in a live environment.

We'll help strengthen your understanding of how to solve problems and make critical decisions while gaining the confidence to work in a high-pressure environment.

You'll also become confident at working collaboratively in teams, ensuring you are able to assess, plan and implement adult care effectively. You will also further develop your ability to communicate with care and compassion – demonstrating your dedication to making a difference to people’s lives.

Through your study, you'll gather a detailed understanding of the ongoing development of nursing as a profession and be confident in contributing to the debate about its future.

Placements and practice

Over 50% of your time will be spent on placements at our partner hospitals.

You will put also theory into practice in our high-tech simulation suites at the West Stand which feature:

  • The latest simulators for you to practice realistic emergency care and hospital scenarios
  • Life-like mannequins that can simulate symptoms, diseases and conditions you’ll encounter as a working nurse
  • Video recorders so you can receive evidence-based feedback from students and teachers watching you practice.

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This adult nursing degree is accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) all modules are compulsory to meet its programme standards.

Over 50% of your time will be spent on placements at our partner hospitals, you'll gain essential real-life experience and reflect in practice learning.

In your first year, you will explore the foundations of learning and practice of adult nursing. These will be further developed in the second year and then consolidated in the third year.

Modules

  • Year 1 - Compulsory

    • Foundations of Expansive Learning (15 Credits)
      • To equip students to develop their self-awareness through critically reflective activities.
      • To offer students the opportunity to develop a range of applied skills through active enquiry, synthesis and reflection on their personal and professional identities
      • To encourage a broad understanding of the context and complexity of the health and social care issues that students may encounter in their learning journeys and professional careers.
    • Practice Learning 1: Adult Nursing (30 credits)

      Students will be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills in meeting the fundamental care needs of people across their lifespan, with a range of physical, mental, cognitive and behavioural health challenges. You shall demonstrate high standards of professional conduct in line with the NMC code in all aspects of their practice and be able to carry out a range of procedures, under supervision, that are expected of you at this level, in a variety of health and social care settings.

    • Foundations of Adult Nursing Knowledge (30 credits)

      This module aims to start developing the role and function of the graduate adult nurse in health and illness. It will provide the fundamental nursing knowledge required to undertake basic nursing assessment, support and enable people across different life spans in managing and improving physical and mental health, as well as preventing ill health. Theories, evidence and models to support the art and science of nursing will be introduced to develop knowledge and understanding about the nature of nursing, the person, health, society and the environment.

    • Foundations of Scientific Principles for Adult Nursing (30 credits)

      This module will introduce and expand on the scientific principles underpinning nursing practice. This module is comprehensive and introduces principles which draw on scientific areas of biopsychosocial and behavioural sciences as related to all areas of nursing.

    • Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice (15 Credits)

      This module aims to provide the student with a foundation to enable the development of appropriate professional attitudes, values, knowledge, skills and conduct to be a graduate adult nurse.

  • Year 2 - Compulsory

    • Developing Expansive Learning (15 Credits)
      • To support students to develop their self-awareness through critically reflective activities, gain competence in evaluating their own learning needs and plan to address them.
      • To scaffold student learners with tools to develop their professional presentation and expand their interpersonal and communication skills with increased independence.
      • To provide students with an opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge of a subject of their choice and to encourage a broader understanding of the context and complexity of current health and social care.
    • Practice Learning 2: Adult Nursing (30 credits)

      You will demonstrate the relevant knowledge and skills to meet more complex care needs of people across the lifespan with a range of physical, mental, cognitive and behavioural health challenges, across a range of health and social care settings in line with the new standards of proficiency. You will be expected to demonstrate increasing independence in your own field of adult health practice whilst maintaining high standards of professional conduct in line with the NMC Code, showing awareness of the implications of the Code for self and others.

    • Developing Nursing Knowledge in Adult Nursing (30 credits)

      This module aims to develop the knowledge and skills required of the graduate adult nurse to assess, plan and evaluate care across the lifespan during illness that is person centred and evidence-based. It will focus on interventions to address physical, cognitive, mental, spiritual, behavioural and social health needs during illness.

    • Developing Scientific Principles for Adult Nursing (15 credits)

      This module will build upon the scientific module of year 1 to further develop principles and deepen the knowledge and application to all fields of nursing.

    • Developing Professional Nursing Practice in Adult Nursing (15 credits)

      The module aims to enable you to develop their professional knowledge in Adult nursing practice. They will be facilitated to build on theoretical knowledge to enhance clinical and professional judgements with awareness/sensitivity applicable to the wider perspective of health and social care economics.

  • Year 3 - Compulsory

    • Consolidating Expansive Learning (15 credits)

      This module will support you to develop your skills in understanding your own learning needs and respond professionally to those of others. Support you as a student learner to creatively evaluate, investigate and respond to complex problems. And will provide you with in-depth knowledge of a subject of your choice and to encourage critical, questioning and socially engaged nursing practice.

    • Practice Learning 3: Adult Nursing (30 credits)

      You will be able to demonstrate the ability to work autonomously in the adult field of practice caring for all people across the lifespan with a range of physical, mental, cognitive and behavioural challenges. You will display advanced clinical skills and have the ability to integrate leadership in all aspects of care management. You will utilise a critical and reflective approach in delivering high standards of professional conduct in line with the NMC Code as part of a multi-disciplinary team.

    • Consolidating Nursing Knowledge in Adult Nursing (30 credits)

      You will be expected to demonstrate achievement of all the intended learning outcomes through critical appraisal of the evidence/research of an identified aspect of care management of individuals with complex care provision observed in your field of practice and a written proposal for a quality improvement (QI) initiative to improve practice.

    • Consolidating Scientific Principles for Adult Nursing (30 credits)

      This module will build upon the scientific module of year 2 to consolidate scientific principles and deepen the knowledge and application. It also aims to extend knowledge and application of pharmacological principles especially as to underpin nursing care within own field of practice and future potential prescribing practice.

    • Consolidating Professional Nursing Practice in Adult Nursing (30 credits)

      The module aims to build upon and consolidate knowledge and skills to manage and lead as an accountable, responsible, emotionally intelligent registered nurse within health and social care environments. The module will facilitate critical examination of key concepts and theories of effective leadership and management.

To find out more about this highly regarded course, please download the full Adult Nursing BSc specification (PDF).

  1. Teaching and independent learning
  2. Coursework and assessment

Facilities

Our course is based at our Hendon Campus with access to our recently redeveloped West Stand, which contains some of the most advanced nursing equipment in the UK with state-of-the-art simulation wards and access to Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality.

will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed for your workplace. You’ll have access to excellent placement opportunities through our partner trusts.

Find out more about our incredible new West Stand facilities.

Student support

We offer lots of support to help you while you're studying including financial advice, wellbeing, mental health and disability support.

Additional needs

We'll support you if you have additional needs such as sensory impairment or dyslexia.  And if you want to find out whether Middlesex is the right place for you before you apply, get in touch with our Disability Advice and Support service.

Wellness

Our specialist teams will support your mental health. We have free individual counselling sessions, workshops, support groups, and useful guides.

Work while you study

Our Middlesex Unitemps branch will help you find work that fits around uni and your other commitments. We have hundreds of student jobs on campus that pay the London Living Wage and above.

Financial Support

You can apply for scholarships and bursaries and our MDX Student Starter Kit to help with up to £1,000 of goods, including a new laptop or iPad.

We have also reduced the costs of studying with free laptop loans, free learning resources, and discounts to save money on everyday things. Check out our guide to student life on a budget.

Learning Support Fund

New students in England studying pre-registration nursing and midwifery courses will have access to the NHS Learning Support Fund (LSF). This includes a £5000 bursary for all new students from September 2020 entry.

For more information on funding arrangements for studying nursing and midwifery pre-registration courses and what it means for you, visit The NHS Business Services Authority website or check out their FAQ.

How can a degree in adult nursing support your career?

Nursing is a flexible and varied career with excellent prospects. The majority of our students have their preferred jobs before they graduate and 90% of our students are in graduate-level employment six months after graduation

There are many well-paid nursing roles within both the NHS and private sector. The skills you will formulate in your studies with us may support you to quickly progress up the nursing career ladder.

After successfully completing the course, you'll be eligible to enter the professional register for nursing. You will also receive career guidance from your professional development tutor.

Nursing is a profession requiring shift work throughout the 24-hour period. Duty rotas will reflect this and will include early, late, night, weekend and bank holiday shift patterns.

Graduate job roles

Our nursing graduates have gone on to work in roles such as nurses, health coordinators, ITU critical care specialists, ward managers and ward sisters.

Graduate employers

They've gone on to work in hospitals including North Middlesex, Whittington, UCL, Ealing, Royal London, Princess Alexandra, and the Royal Free.

MDXworks

Our Careers and Employability Service, MDXworks will launch you into the world of work from the beginning of your course, with placements, projects and networking opportunities through our 1000+ links with industry and big-name employers in London and globally.

Our dedicated lifetime career support, like our business start-up support programme and funding for entrepreneurs, has put us in the top 10 UK universities for students who want to be CEOs and entrepreneurs (Hitachi, 2021).

Global network

You’ll study with students from 122 countries who’ll hopefully become part of your global network. And after you graduate, we'll still support you through our alumni network to help you progress in your chosen career.

We maintain strong partnership relationships with NHS and independent health and social care organisations so that you’ll have access to excellent placement opportunities as a nursing or midwifery student.

We have approximately 500 pre-registration students out on placement at any one time, with over 400 placements being utilised.

Adult Nursing Placements map (hospitals listed separately on the page)

Main placement providers

Our main placement providers are:

  • Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospital
  • Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust
  • BMI Healthcare (being placed specifically at Hendon Hospital, Clementine Churchill Hospital, Cavell Hospital, and Kings Oak Hospital)
  • Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust
  • Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust
  • Marie Curie Hospice
  • Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust
  • Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
  • Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust
  • Whittington Hospital NHS Trust (Whittington Health).

In addition to a number of placements in both community and hospital environments in the NHS Trusts and independent sector that are highlighted above, we also have a range of placements in the following areas:

  • General practice nursing
  • Care homes
  • Schools
  • Nurseries and play schemes
  • Learning disability homes
  • Specialist areas such as children’s hospice care, eating disorders, forensics
  • Volunteering opportunities with a range of voluntary/ charitable organisations across London.

We also work with a number of other London NHS Trusts in supporting a range of pre-registration pathways. These include (but are not limited to):

  • Barts Health NHS Trust
  • Central London Community Health NHS Trust
  • Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
  • Homerton University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
  • Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
  • West London Mental Health NHS Trust.

How your placement will work

We work in partnership with placement providers to ensure that the practice learning environment meets your individual learning needs. We ensure there is a robust quality monitoring process of the learning environment.

Each practice area has an allocated link lecturer and practice placement information to further support clinical learning. You'll be expected to work with your assigned mentor/assessor two to three times per week.

Placements and internships greatly improve graduate employment prospects, and those who take part achieve excellent academic results through applying their learning in a professional setting.

Our specialist Employability Service and London location ensure that every year our students and graduates gain prestigious placement opportunities.

  1. UK entry
  2. International entry
  3. How to apply

New students in England studying pre-registration nursing and midwifery courses will have access to the NHS Learning Support Fund (LSF). This includes a £5000 bursary for all new students from September 2020 entry.

For more information on funding arrangements for studying nursing and midwifery pre-registration courses and what it means for you, visit The NHS Business Services Authority website or check out their FAQ.


The fees below are for the 2024/25 academic year:

UK students1

Full-time: £9,250

International students2

Full-time students: £16,000

Additional costs

The following study tools are included in your fees:

  • Free laptop loans for up to 24 hours
  • Free access to everything on your reading list
  • Free specialist software for your course
  • Free printing for academic paperwork
  • Free online training with LinkedIn Learning.

Scholarships and bursaries

To help make uni affordable, we do everything we can to support you including our:

  • MDX Excellence Scholarship offers grants of up to £2,000 per year for UK students
  • Regional or International Merit Awards which reward International students with up to £2,000 towards course fees
  • Our MDX Student Starter Kit to help with up to £1,000 of goods, including a new laptop or iPad.
  • NHS Learning Support Fund (LSF) includes a £5000 bursary for all new students from September 2020 entry visit The NHS Business Services Authority website or check out their FAQ.

Find out more about undergraduate funding and all of our scholarships and bursaries.

Fees disclaimers

1. UK fees: The university reserves the right to increase undergraduate tuition fees in line with changes to legislation, regulation and any government guidance or decisions. The tuition fees for part-time UK study are subject to annual review and we reserve the right to increase the fees each academic year by no more than the level of inflation.

2. International fees: Tuition fees are subject to annual review and we reserve the right to increase the fees each academic year by no more than the level of inflation.

Any annual increase in tuition fees as provided for above will be notified to students at the earliest opportunity in advance of the academic year to which any applicable inflationary rise may apply.

  • Marnie Constantinou

    Nursing (Adult) BSc graduate

    What I liked most about the course was gaining new knowledge in a field I love. The tutors had a wealth of experience and knowledge to share with us.

    I loved every placement. This was the time to learn new skills, link theory with practice, assist the nurses and show them how valuable you are as a team player.

    I was chosen as Middlesex’s Student Nurse of the Year. I was shocked but very humbled. I committed myself fully for three years to my study in order to be the best possible nurse I can be.

    My plans for the future are to complete my preceptorship within a year, and look ahead to become a band six in 18 months, probably as a deputy ward manager. There’s no stopping me…

    I’m proud to say I’m ‘made in Middlesex’.

  • Hufzha Juneja

    Nursing (Adult) BSc student

    When I came for the open day at Middlesex I felt so welcomed and at ease. It's given me everything I wanted - great friends, great student life, a sociable atmosphere that welcomes everyone from all backgrounds and a great education too.

    I absolutely love my course. We get to do a range of placements in various areas, such as A&E, theatres and medical wards, as well as opportunities to study abroad – with academic and financial support from the University.

    The tutors are more like our friends – they understand and support us. It's amazing how much they do for us. I've studied across the UK, and some of the best lecturers I've ever come across have been at Middlesex. I've been so fortunate to have such brilliant, experienced, talented lecturers that have a passion to teach– it makes learning so much more enjoyable.

    I'm proud of choosing a nursing degree, and I'm proud of being a Middlesex student.

  • Lisa Lewington

    Nursing (Adult) BSc student

    I had to defer my third year as I have son with complex needs who was seriously ill in hospital. Middlesex has been absolutely amazing. Now I'm back at uni, they've done everything they can to help me keep going, like making sure my placements are based near to my home, and being flexible when I've had to take time out for my son's hospital appointments. My tutors have been so encouraging and positive about my work too.

    My advice for new students would be that if you have an issue, always speak up as Middlesex will do everything they can to support you. I gain so much from the group of friends I've made on my course too. You go through your journey together and support each other.

    There's a real mix of people studying adult nursing – from eighteen year-olds who've come straight from A Levels to people in their 40s and older, like me. Some are new to the field, others are health care assistants stepping up to do nursing. They all have a lot of experience you can learn from.

    Read more about Lisa's experience at MDX.


We’ll carefully manage any future changes to courses, or the support and other services available to you, if these are necessary because of things like changes to government health and safety advice, or any changes to the law.

Any decisions will be taken in line with both external advice and the University’s Regulations which include information on this.

Our priority will always be to maintain academic standards and quality so that your learning outcomes are not affected by any adjustments that we may have to make.

At all times we’ll aim to keep you well informed of how we may need to respond to changing circumstances, and about support that we’ll provide to you.

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