Nursing (Adult) (MSc)

Entry requirements

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Months of entry

September

Course content

Adult Nursing is an exciting and rewarding career choice. It’s one in which you can make a real and positive contribution to people with long and short-term health problems who are facing some of the most challenging experiences of their lives.

Why study Nursing (Adult) at Keele University?
- Gain an MSc in a two year timeframe and become a qualified, postgraduate nurse, ready to work in your chosen specialism
- Experience a stimulating blend of learning activities, including practice learning, simulation, problem based learning, tutorials, lectures and clinical skills workshops
- Benefit from a wide variety of innovative assessments that will develop and enhance your graduate skill set
- Eligible students can apply for the £5,000 NHS training grant to help with living costs

Course summary
If you're a highly motivated graduate with care experience who wishes to become a registered adult nurse and gain an MSc in a two year timeframe, the MSc Nursing graduate entry programme is perfect for you.

The programme builds your academic skill sets, professional responsibility and technical complexity related to patient care throughout the two years. Successful completion of this innovative programme will ensure you will meet the registration requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council.

The programme meets the NMC standards for pre-registration nursing education. The NMC (2018a) reviewed their standards with the publication of 'Future Nurse: Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses' and this programme reflects the comprehensive range of subject knowledge, clinical skills and leadership required of the Registered Nurse. Higher Education (HE) quality standards through Quality Academic Assurance Standards (QAA) are met through the Higher Education Credit Framework for England bodies (Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education, 2018; 2021). In addition, the programme philosophy addresses contemporary challenges faced by health care practitioners in providing effective clinical care, recognising the key issues developed in the NHS in England at 75: priorities for the future (NHS, 2023).

The Keele ‘Future Nurse’ MSc Nursing programme has been designed to meet the seven NMC platforms, which underpin pre-registration nursing education (NMC, 2018a). These require you, regardless of your chosen field, to demonstrate core knowledge, skills, standards, behaviours to meet people’s needs, as well as field-specific knowledge and skills as required in either adult, children’s, learning disability or mental health nursing. Two NMC annexes (A and B) detail extensive communication skills and clinical procedures, which are also included in the programme:
- Platform 1: Being an accountable professional
- Platform 2: Promoting health and preventing ill-health
- Platform 3: Assessing needs and planning care
- Platform 4: Providing and evaluating care
- Platform 5: Leading and managing nursing care and working in teams
- Platform 6: Improving safety and quality of care
- Platform 7: Coordinating care
- Annexe A: Communication and relationship management skills
- Annexe B: Nursing Procedures

We aim to facilitate your development to become one of the best post-graduate nurses in the country. To achieve this you will develop a skill set which includes:
- Deliver safe, competent, evidence-based nursing practice
- Adopting professional values, attitudes and behaviours
- Developing your interpersonal skills
- Effective team-working
- Improving management and leadership skills
- Demonstrate competence in research and be able to successfully manage a project

Information for international students

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Fees and funding

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