You’ll gain the necessary knowledge, skills and behaviour required to meet statutory requirements to register as a practicing adult nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. When you graduate you’ll have a thorough understanding of the competencies, principles and processes that underpin safe and effective person-centred care delivery and the ability to apply knowledge and principles to various care settings.

The PGD will develop you as an autonomous, reflective practitioner who has the qualities and values needed to deliver safe and effective care. You will develop leadership and management skills which can be further developed on qualification, enabling the practitioner to develop practice, promote and sustain change, delegate, supervise and manage self and others, whilst contributing to the planning, designing, delivering and improvement of future services.

Throughout the programme, practice placements are designed to provide a range of adult nursing experience. You’ll have compulsory theoretical study and clinical placements in acute and community hospitals in North Wales. During placements you are supernumerary and this allows you to work alongside your mentor and participate in delivery of nursing care. Support is available from a personal tutor who is a registered nurse and an academic member of staff and mentorship supervision from a practicing registered nurse on placement. Theoretical and practical work is assessed through assignments, examinations, presentations and the All-Wales Assessment of Clinical Practice portfolio.

The teaching and learning strategy for the course will take a student-centred approach and build on the graduate skills developed during your first degree. Whilst there will be some taught lectures for each module, the main emphasis will be on working as a group to develop your knowledge, clinical decision making skills and finding solutions to real life problems.