Course Profile

With the NHS Constitution at its core, our Learning Disabilities Nursing degree provides rigorous training and fantastic placement opportunities.

You will gain the skills, experience and knowledge required to prepare you for nursing practice in supporting people with Learning Disabilities to navigate the many physical, mental and social challenges that they and their carers face. You will also work to ensure that people with Learning Disabilities experience equal and equitable access to services in order to meet their needs.

Your studies will be split 50/50 between theory and practice to equip you with the specific skills and experience you will need to take on both essential nursing practice and the more specialist areas intrinsic to Learning Disabilities nursing. You will develop a robust understanding of the evidence base and skills required to provide optimum care. And you’ll gain hands-on experience across a range of placements in both acute and community settings, acquiring the skills and experience critical to safe and effective nursing practice.

As with our other nursing courses, you’ll learn alongside students from other areas of healthcare. And you’ll be taught about the importance of social inclusion and empowerment – key factors in the life of anyone with a Learning Disability.

Once you graduate, you’ll be ready to play a pivotal role within a multi-professional team. You’ll also provide a valuable and important contribution to enhancing the lives of people with a Learning Disabilities, as well as their carers.

Highlights of Learning Disabilities Nursing at UEA

• Wide range of placements including community settings, hospitals and specialist care units
• Regular group work with other health students
• Opportunity to link theory and practice throughout your studies
• 50% theory, 50% practice – the best way to prepare for your career
• Award-winning facilities, including our skills laboratories
• A highly supportive culture.

Course Profile

As a student at UEA, you will study aspects of mental health nursing which include core nursing skills and those needed in more specialist mental health areas such as working with children and with people who have dementia.

Your studies will be split 50/50 between academic theory and hands-on practice. You will undertake a range of placements in care homes, the community, hospitals and specialist care units. And you will study alongside other healthcare students, giving you a greater insight into the responsibilities and roles of other healthcare professions. So you will graduate fully equipped with the skills and experience you’ll need for a career working with people with complex mental health problems.

With the NHS Constitution at its core, our Mental Health Nursing degree provides rigorous training, fantastic placement opportunities and is fully approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Highlights of Mental Health Nursing at UEA

• A wide range of placements including community settings, care homes, hospitals and specialist care units
• Regular group work with other healthcare students
• Excellent facilities including skills and simulation laboratories
• Research led-teaching
• Highly motivated students and support from student representatives
• A highly supportive culture and passionate teaching team.

Course Profile

Your Children’s Nursing degree will prepare you for essential nursing practice, as well as for specialist areas such as long-term conditions and complex and disabling healthcare issues. This includes conditions and challenges that are specific to young people. It also includes mental health care, as younger people living with long-term conditions are far more vulnerable to developing emotional disorders.

Alongside this you’ll learn to work in close partnership with the families and carers of children in your care.

As well as learning how to look after children who are unwell, you’ll also learn how to help foster healthy lifestyles in patients’ early years and adolescence, contributing to their health and wellbeing well into adulthood.

Your course will feature a 50/50 balance between theory and practice. Throughout the course you’ll learn through first-hand practical experience. You’ll also work in collaboration with other healthcare students. This hands-on and collaborative approach is key to helping you achieve the best physical, emotional health and wellbeing outcomes.

You will graduate able to meet the physical, emotional and social development needs of children and young people, with a variety of clinical conditions and complex health challenges, in a wide range of healthcare settings.

With the NHS Constitution at its core, our Children’s Nursing degree provides rigorous training, fantastic placement opportunities and is fully approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Highlights of Children's Nursing at UEA:

• Wide range of placements including community settings, hospitals and specialist care units
• Service-user contact from the very outset
• Regular group work with other nursing, health and medical students
• Personal mentor to guide you throughout
• Emphasis on enquiry-based learning to help you link theory to practice
• Excellent facilities, including simulation skills laboratories
• Chance to experience healthcare in another country with an elective placement
• Highly supportive culture
• Highly motivated students.

Course Profile

Balanced between theoretical study and placement-based practice, our Midwifery degree will equip you with all the skills, knowledge and leadership qualities you need to excel as a midwife. You’ll graduate ready to help mothers navigate their pregnancies as their lead practitioner in all normal midwifery care, and able to manage and coordinate more complex care for those in difficult circumstances.

A midwife needs be able to assess every case then make the right judgement. Throughout the course you’ll study the latest research underpinning current midwifery practices, and develop both your critical analysis and ability to evaluate evidence. You’ll then consolidate your learning by putting it into practice while on placement.

Clinical placements are undertaken regularly during the course and cover every aspect of midwifery practice. You’ll work with professionals from multiple professional disciplines, gaining unique insights into the practices and perspectives of healthcare providers across the board.

Our degree will also help you to develop in-depth knowledge and clinical skills related to the examination of newborns, and on successful completion of all course components you’ll gain the Neonatal and Infant Physical Examiner qualification. And you’ll learn how to support new mothers emotionally and physically as they breastfeed and bond with their babies.