Study Adult Nursing

A career as an Adult nurse is both challenging and satisfying, giving you the chance to make a vital difference in people’s lives. Adult nurses provide crucial support and care for patients of different ages and with a wide variety of health conditions.

There is a broad range of career options in the sector. Adult nurses form the largest part of the NHS workforce and work with a wide and varied range of patients, working alongside a broad range of healthcare professionals, such as doctors, healthcare assistants, physiotherapists and other key medical staff.

Looking for an advanced nurse practitioner course? City have been providing nurse education for 140 years and will help you develop the skills and knowledge needed to fulfil the role of a nurse in caring for adult patients in various hospital and community settings.

At City we think it is vital that when our students go on placements they have the skills and confidence to manage in a real-life, working healthcare environment. A considerable amount time during our nursing courses is spent in 'simulated practice' in our state-of-the-art Clinical Skills facility. 2:19

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Career perspectives

Studying Adult Nursing can lead to a rewarding and challenging career in the NHS or other healthcare provider.

We offer undergraduate and postgraduate degree courses at pre- and post-registration level, as well as training courses. By joining a nursing course at City, you will become a CapitalNurse, linking with all nursing students across London and giving you support to develop your nursing career in the capital.

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How to become an adult nurse

City will help you prepare for working life as an adult nurse where you will be expected to care for people suffering from minor injuries to acute long-term illness.

Why study Adult nursing at City?

Facilities

Where required, we provide students, staff and service users with PPE in order to ensure they can carry out their educational activities safely
Our Clinical Skills Centre designed to mirror 'real' health care environments with simulated 6-bedded ward to provide an adaptable, modern and appropriate space for both teaching and research.
Our Department of Nursing has access to simulators and realistic equipment including piped oxygen, call bells, medicines and emergency equipment.
In addition, medium-fidelity simulators and laboratories, including a biology laboratory, allow you to rehearse skills in preparation for practice in a range of placements.
City TECS is a learning hub, designed to simulate a home environment. Equipped with the latest telehealth, telecare, telemedicine, telerehabilitation, electronic health and wearable technologies.
Our three campus libraries consist of around 250,000 books with over 25,000 online journal titles and over 1600 study places available.
As part of the University of London, City students have access to Senate House Library.