The School of Nursing is the largest school within the faculty of health, social care
and education and it is across two sites. It's based at St George's and it's also based
on the Kingston Hill site.
Kingston and St George's joint faculty is consistently rated at the top of the Guardian League Tables.
We offer a range of workforce development education that makes our provision unique.
We offer four fields of nursing. That is adult nursing, children's nursing, mental health
nursing and learning disability nursing.
We're really proud of our programmes and the quality of that provision. We're proud because
our students leave the programme as registered nurses where employers want to employ you.
97 per cent of our students gain employment for six months after registering. Our facilities offer
you a number of opportunities to learn basic nursing skills, to even advance skills, and
you will progressively build on those skills as you move from your first year to your third year.
Adult nursing is the largest group and it actually serves hospital and both community
settings. You will learn about working with the very sick, to public health, to those with
long term conditions. You will work within a setting where you're looking at surgical
nursing, medical nursing, working between a hospital and the community, working in a
patient's home, looking at dementia, looking at diabetes, maybe working with your patients
at the end of their life.
I specifically chose to do adult because you do get to encompass quite a lot of different
fields if you like. Although I chose adults I do come across patients who do have learning
disabilities, we do have patients who do have mental health issues, and it's such a privilege.
I chose to do adult nursing because I feel it gives me more wider options of what path
I want to take in the future.
Academic staff, and the support they've given me, has been tremendous.
They've never said no to me, they've always been so approachable and I've never had an issue whatsoever.
I just feel as though from the onset, from year one up until now, and I'm in year three now,
I've never had an issue and I'm hoping that will continue once I finish.
I don’t think there's anything more rewarding than looking after patients and
giving that care to someone.
For nurses that are often experiential learners there's a real need to integrate both theory
and practice so it's transferring what we learn in the classroom into real life scenarios.
Alterative practice is designed to allow students to experience healthcare in a variety of settings.
We realise that what we teach is the kind of skeleton that they need to flesh out, so
when they qualify they will continue to need to learn, to read, to be lifelong developers.
During our practice we do have the opportunity to work in a simulation environment if you like.
What that encompasses is: they're trying to mimic what it's like to be on a ward
and so we have literally rooms with patients' beds, you have the curtains,
you have the blood pressure machines, it literally is like a ward there.
The best experience of studying adult nursing: I can’t highlight one in particular.
I think the whole three years has just been one amazing experience at uni and
I'd just love to do it all over again.