Employability
Our Nursing and Midwifery courses are designed to prepare you for a number of careers ranging from Accident and Emergency to forensic services. Navigate the above tabs to find your course and discover the range of opportunities available.
You’re interested in caring for people as an adult nurse but do you know about the huge range of areas that you could specialise in as your career progresses? Here's just a few of the numerous specialist areas that could be open to you after you successfully complete your BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing degree...
Accident and Emergency
Working as an A&E nurse, the clue is in the name! Accident and Emergency involves dealing with critical patients in a high-pressure environment. You’re often the first point of contact for patients coming in who could have a variety of injuries, illnesses and conditions. No two cases are the same so there's very little routine and you have to work quickly. But with all this pressure, chaos and hard work comes an incredibly rewarding career.
An overview of A&E for service users
Critical Care (ITU)
Critical care nursing is a complex and challenging area to which many nurses aspire. Also known as ITU nurses, critical care nurses use their advanced skills to care for patients who are critically ill and at high risk for life-threatening health problems.
Why ITU might be the choice for you
District/Community nursing
District nurses play a crucial role in the primary healthcare team. You visit people in their own homes or in residential care homes and, increasingly, provide complex care for patients and support for family members.
Watch the NHS video on district nursing careers
Oncology nursing
Oncology nurses specialise in treating patients diagnosed with cancer. You have to be able to educate patients and their family members across the treatment and be truthful about their illness. You are required to carry out assessments on the patient's medical state and intervene when needed to help improve the patient's wellbeing and (hopefully) recovery.
Five minutes with an acute oncology nurse
Practice nurse in a GP surgery
As a Practice nurse you would work in a GP practice to assess, screen, treat and educate patients, and help doctors give medical care. Experience of working in chronic disease management (like diabetes or asthma), wound dressing, childhood immunisation, cervical cytology and phlebotomy (taking blood) can help you in this role.
More about General Practice nursing
Diabetes nurse
A diabetes nurse helps patients that have diabetes, a disease that prevents the body from producing or absorbing enough insulin. Since much of their job is spent relaying important information between patients, doctors, and family members, a diabetes nurse's greatest asset is their ability to communicate. We offer a specialist Master's programme in Advancing Diabetes Care.