Learning Disabilities Nursing - BSc (Hons)

Birmingham City University

Your journey to becoming a confident, compassionate, and future focused nurse starts here.The BSc (Hons) Nursing Course has been designed to enable you to meet the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses. When you successfully complete the course, you will be eligible for entry onto the NMC register in one of the four fields of nursing: Adult, Children, Learning Disabilities or Mental Health.The course integrates evidence-informed education and high-quality practice learning environments to shape nurses who will lead, advocate, and innovate within diverse health and social care environments whilst meeting the complex needs of people, families, and communities across the lifespan.The course will equip you with the practical skills, knowledge and experience you need to become a confident professional nurse. Your time is evenly balanced between campus-based learning and practice learning experiences, ensuring strong confident integration of theory to practice.As a learning disability nursing student, you will make a real difference to people with learning disabilities and their families. People with learning disabilities are unique and you will develop knowledge, skills and experience to provide a holistic care approach to enable them to live fulfilling lives by improving their health, promoting inclusion, and advocating for their needs. You will be working across community, hospital, and social care settings with multi-disciplinary teams to address health inequalities and complex needs. This will involve helping with daily living, access to services, mental/physical health, and empowering individuals to gain independence across the life span and a range of healthcare environments.After studying this route, you could go on to a variety of different roles, including working in specialist residential support units, forensic settings or as a hospital liaison.**What's covered in this course?****Practice Learning Experiences**Your practice learning experiences will be based in a variety of settings such as in the community primary care social care settings hospital or in home environments. Practice learning environments will be in the main in the Midlands and at locations where you can be exposed to the learning required.Your professional practice modules will run across each year of your course and in parallel to your theoretical modules to support strong integration and application of theory to practice. You will be prepared for practice learning to ensure you feel confident when entering each stage of the course.**Teaching and Learning**You will experience excellent, innovative, learning, teaching and assessment experiences using technology to enhance your learning, through lectures, seminars and group work. Practical skills sessions and simulation will underpin your learning, supporting you to regularly apply theoretical concepts in a variety of different ways. Engaging with practice partners and people who use services throughout the course is also integral to our approach.Virtual learning is critical to being able to perform in today’s increasingly digitally supported healthcare systems, therefore your digital literacy and development are explored within online and virtual learning environments. Online learning will be independent, guided and directed, allowing for flexibility of learning.

School of Nursing and Midwifery