Nursing at Solent
Make a difference and have a rewarding career helping others in the NHS and private settings across primary and secondary care.
Nurses are key to delivering healthcare in the UK, and you can be part of a world-class leading health service.
At Solent, our students in adult nursing practice and mental health nursing are set up to have excellent career prospects – being taught by our lecturing team who have specialist teaching and clinical experience. Our courses are accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), ensuring you have the best start to working in a clinical practice setting, while access to our state-of-the-art simulation nursing ward offers the opportunity to practise acute patient care in a clinical environment.
Adult nursing practice students study clinical skills training, nursing assessment and care planning, inter-agency and inter-professional working, evidence-based practice and public health initiatives.
Mental health nursing students analyse and critique modern mental health approaches and treatment modalities, including the medical model, psychotherapeutic approaches, anthropological understanding of health beliefs, public health approaches and the social determinants of health, among other ideas and concepts.
Courses
MSc General Practice (Nursing and Allied Health Professionals)
This course aims to consolidate the skills of health care professionals to become an enhanced primary care practitioner and to obtain NMC accreditation as an Independent and Supplementary prescriber.History Taking and Physical Assessment
This course provides skills for health care professionals to accurately obtain a clinical history in a consultation.Independent and Supplementary Prescribing
This course provides skills for health care professionals to become NMC accredited as an Independent and Supplementary prescriber.PGCert Independent Prescribing Practice
This course provides skills for health care professionals to become NMC accredited as an Independent and Supplementary prescriber.Level 6 Registered Nurse (Degree) Apprenticeship
The Registered Nurse (degree) apprenticeship offers the latest technologies and education to enable you to develop your clinical, assessment and decision-making skills. If you...BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing
If you want to help others in critical need, you can have a rewarding and fulfilling nursing career in mental health. Learn essential clinical skills on this NMC accredited degree.Facilities
Nursing students can expect facilities to be prepared for a clinical environment.
This includes a simulated nursing ward, bathroom and kitchen that reflect acute patient care, as well as a community facility that includes a waiting room, GP consultation room, treatment room and care home room.
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