Everything you need to know...
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What is the fee?
Home: See fees section below
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How long will I study?
4 Years
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Where will I study?
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What are the entry requirements?
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When do I start?
September 2025
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Course summary
- Gain the knowledge and skills you need to provide compassionate nursing care.
- Gain the skills and values to enter highly skilled employment.
- Develop a strong professional identity and confidence.
- Learn to develop and deliver person-centred care.
- Benefit from real-world experience with placements and hands-on practicals.
This unique part-time course offers you an exciting opportunity to become a fully qualified nurse, transforming the lives of individuals and communities. You’ll consider the changing nature of health, illness and recovery – as well as the relationship between healthcare professionals and service users. You’ll graduate as a reflective, competent and employable professional.
How you learn
On this course you’ll learn from academic staff who have a variety of clinical expertise and experience. You’ll apply your theoretical study directly to your practice setting, using the knowledge, skills and attributes you’ve gained. The course is a blend of theory and hands-on practical work, giving you the opportunity to practise what you learn in both simulated and real-world settings.
Nurses are an integral part of a multidisciplinary team. You’ll have the chance to learn and collaborate with students from other health and social care courses, helping you deliver person-centred care, with an understanding of how other professionals contribute to the person's journey through health and social care services.
You learn through:
- Exams
- Poster presentation
- Reflective writing
- Assessment of proficiency in practice
- An extended project
- Group and individual presentations
- Written assessment
Key themes
In the first year you’ll establish the fundamentals of nursing in your chosen field, further developing your knowledge, skills and attitudes through a variety of placement learning experiences.
In your second year you’ll build on these fundamental skills by exploring the complexity of care provided to adults and children who use services, as well as their carers.
In your final year you’ll consolidate your knowledge, attitudes and skills by leading nursing care in diverse settings.
Course support
We’ll nurture your creativity, encouraging you to ask compelling questions and providing you with the tools to answer them.
With our high ratio of staff to students, you’ll always get the support you need on your learning journey towards highly skilled, graduate-level employment. This includes:
- Access to specialist support services to help with your personal, academic and career development.
- Access to our Skills Centre for support with one-to-ones, webinars and online resources, where you can get help with planning and structuring your assignments and assessment preparation.
Course leaders and tutors
Matt Wilde
Senior Lecturer - Public Health NursingMatthew Wilde Senior Lecturer Public Health Nursing at Sheffield Hallam University
Student View
Hear our BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing student Alex Morton, discuss why he chose a career in nursing.
Applied learning
Work placements
You’ll gain real-world experience through placements, projects, and voluntary activities. These take place in work settings, through online interfaces, and within the university. Throughout the course, you'll achieve an average of 27 placement hours per week during placement blocks. These placements occur in various learning environments with different shift patterns, requiring you to be flexible and collaborate with placement areas to arrange your placement working hours. All placements will be in Doncaster and surrounding areas associated with the Doncaster Trust providers.
There’s also an optional placement where you can arrange an experience—nationally or internationally—to meet your personal professional development needs and support your employability.
You’ll be supervised and supported by practice supervisors, practice assessors, link lecturers, and academic assessors, enabling you to learn and safely achieve proficiency and autonomy in your professional role.
Live projects
You’ll apply your learning in our specialist labs, practice facilities, simulation environments and workshops – as well as externally through field trips, educational visits and digital technologies. You’ll also have loan access to specialist equipment so you can work on or off-campus, and you’ll be supported by lecturers and technical experts.
You’ll practise your learning in a range of settings where nurses care for adults, children and young people. You’ll take part in all activities that contribute to your training and demonstrate the responsibilities involved.
Field trips
Previous field trips have included time in refugee camps in Greece, working with community projects in India, and learning clinical skills with nursing students from the US.
Others have included working with local schools and charity organisations to create a health promotion campaign as part of Simulated Practice Learning. These are great chances to gain experience while supporting your community.
Networking opportunities
In your first year we host a welcome event so you can meet our practice learning partners and engage with opportunities to further your career planning and development.
There may be an opportunity to attend our onsite careers event and speak to our practice learning partners about employment opportunities and career pathways.
Future careers
This course prepares you for a career in clinical nursing within a range of health and social care settings, including:
- Primary and community care
- Secondary care
- Private and voluntary organisations
- Advanced practice roles
- Management positions in clinical nursing
- Research nursing
- Lecturing
Further study, such as health visiting and masters and doctoral education
Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work in:
- Hospital and community nursing environments
- Health centres
- GP surgeries
- The armed forces
- Education
Student's success story
Nursing student Dave Gwinnell helped launch a nationwide support group for male nurses.
Where will I study?
You study at the Hub campus of University Centre Doncaster, which has fantastic work spaces designed to enhance student learning and reflect industry standards.
Equipment and facilities
Most of your learning will take place at the Doncaster College University Centre (DCUC) campus, supported by staff from both the School of Health and Social Care at Sheffield Hallam University (SHU) and the Department of Education, Health and Community at DCUC. Occasionally, you'll need to attend the SHU campus for integrated modules and some simulated practical learning in the simulation suites.
On this course you work with:
- A range of clinical nursing placement environments
- Our purpose-built clinical simulation suites
- Mock wards and community spaces
- Technology-enhanced learning
- Clinical skills laboratories
- Oxford Medical Simulation
- Virtual reality software
- 24-hour libraries and study spaces designed by our students
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Nurse with a GP
Entry requirements
All students
UCAS points
- 112
From A levels or equivalent BTEC National qualifications. We do not accept AS levels. For example:
- BBC at A Level.
- DMM in BTEC Extended Diploma.
- A combination of qualifications, which may include general studies.
You can find information on making sense of UCAS tariff points here and use the UCAS tariff calculator to work out your points.
GCSE
- English Language or Literature at grade C or 4 or equivalents*
- Maths at grade D or 4 or equivalents*
- Science at grade C or 4 or equivalents*
*GCSE Maths equivalents
• Level 2 Key Skills/Application of Number/Grade D at GCSE Maths/ Level 2 Maths credits from an Access course
• maths equivalency test from www.equivalencytesting.co.uk
*GCSE English equivalents
• Level 2 Literacy
• Level 2 Key Skills
*GCSE Science equivalents
• OCR Science Level 2
• science units gained on a Level 3 BTEC or OCR National Diploma or Extended Diploma Qualification
• science credits gained on Access to Higher Education Diplomas (at least 12 credits gained at level 2 or 6 credits gained at level 3)
• science equivalency test from www.equivalencytesting.co.uk
• Access - Access to HE Diploma from a QAA recognised Access to HE course in health studies, health science, social sciences or nursing. At least 15 level 3 credits should be graded at merit level.
• If you are in the process of completing the FdSc Professional Practice in Health and Social Care at one of our partner colleges and are looking to progress your career as a registered professional, we would welcome an application from you. Please note the different application routes below:
- Completing the level 4 Certificate of Higher Education in Professional Practice in Health and Social Care means you can apply via UCAS to be considered for entry at Year 1 of your chosen professional degree
- Completing the full two year FdSc to level 5 means you can apply to be considered for entry in to Year 2 of this professional degree. This is a direct application process in accordance with the partnership arrangement between Sheffield Hallam University and your college, not via UCAS. Please note that places to commence this course in Year 2 are limited.
• Nursing Associate Apprenticeships & Assistant Practitioner (Health) Apprenticeships will be considered on an individual basis and could enable you to commence this programme from year 2.
• Successful completion of our Foundation Year in Health, Sport & Social Care.
• Degrees will be considered on an individual basis and if you already hold a first degree with an upper second class honours or above, you may be eligible to study our pre-registration MSc Adult Nursing
IELTS
If English is not your first language, you will need an IELTS score of 7.0 with a minimum of 7.0 in reading, listening and speaking and 6.5 in writing, or a recognised equivalent. If your level of English language is currently below IELTS 7.0 we recommend you consider an appropriate Sheffield Hallam University Pre-sessional English course which will enable you to achieve the required level of English.
Additional information for EU/International students
This course is not open to international students who require a Tier 4 (General) student visa to study in the UK. If you are an international applicant but do not require a Tier 4 (General) student visa, email our Admissions Team to find out whether you’re eligible to apply.
Modules
Important notice: The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.
Year 1
Compulsory modules
Collaboration For Individual And Community Wellbeing
Fundamentals Of Nursing Practice
Part 1 Placement
Sciences For Nursing Practice
Year 2
Compulsory modules
Applied Sciences For Nursing Practice
Developing Nursing Practice
Part 2 Placement
Personal And Professional Development
Year 3
Compulsory modules
Assessing And Addressing Complexity In Practice
Evidence And Enquiry For Practice
One Credit Module – Bsc (Hons) Nursing
Part 3 Placement
The Advancing Professional
Final year
Compulsory modules
Complexity & Leadership In Professional Practice
Consolidating Sciences For Nursing Practice
Transition To Registration In Adult Nursing Practice
Fees and funding
Home students
Our tuition fees for UK students starting part-time undergraduate study in 2025/26 are regulated by the UK government and are yet to be confirmed. For an indication, our tuition fees for UK students starting this course in 2024/25 are £6,935 per year (based on studying 60 credits per year).
If you are studying an undergraduate course, postgraduate pre-registration course or postgraduate research course over more than one academic year then your tuition fees may increase in subsequent years in line with Government regulations or UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) published fees. More information can be found in our terms and conditions under student fees regulations.
Health and social care funding
Home fee-paying students can access a non-repayable maintenance grant of at least £5,000 per year. You may also be eligible for additional financial support based on your circumstances.
Additional course costs
The links below allow you to view estimated general course additional costs, as well as costs associated with key activities on specific courses. These are estimates and are intended only as an indication of potential additional expenses. Actual costs can vary greatly depending on the choices you make during your course.
General course additional costs
Additional costs for Health and Social Care (PDF, 165.7KB)Legal information
Any offer of a place to study is subject to your acceptance of the University’s Terms and Conditions and Student Regulations.
