ENU always aims to be recognised as an ambitious, innovative, and inclusive university. At the ENU School of Health and Social Care, we aspire to provide an excellent personalised student experience. We are dedicated to creating learning environments that are supportive of diverse student needs and backgrounds, while being simultaneously engaging and academically challenging. We want every student who completes a course at our school to feel confident, knowledgeable, skilled, and proud of their achievement.
The BSc Nursing Studies curriculum has been designed with the aim of equipping you with the knowledge, skills, and professionalism required for contemporary nursing practice. Topics included are leadership, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, ethics in nursing practice, and health promotion. The programme supports your development through a range of learning opportunities, and prepares you for the UK nursing registration process, including the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE).
Guided by the ENhance Curriculum Framework’s principle of student-centred education, the programme places a strong emphasis on employability, global perspectives, inclusion, sustainability, and the integration of research and practice.
To support your transition into the programme, a structured orientation and induction process is embedded throughout the course, alongside support for academic skills, digital and information technology skills, and numeracy.
If you hold a diploma in nursing from countries outside the UK and are registered as a practising nurse, this programme will enable you to deepen your knowledge of evidence-based practice and develop a critical approach to integrated healthcare where you can effectively apply theory to your own nursing practice. You will gain theoretical and practical nursing skills that will prepare you to provide excellent person-centred nursing care within the UK healthcare system. Through a combination of classroom-based lectures, tutorials, and practical sessions in our simulation and clinical skills centre, you will develop a comprehensive understanding of contemporary nursing practice in the UK.
Should you choose to also complete the NMC registration process following the successful completion of this course, you will be able to register in the UK as Registered Nurse.
If you wish to become registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), you will have the additional cost of both part 1 and part 2 of the NMC’s test of competence and need to provide evidence of the required level of English Language Competence (for example IELTS 7).
Course academics
You will be supported while studying by the Programme Leader, Dr Leila El-Alti
Dr Leila El-Alti is a lecturer on four programmes at the School of Health and Social Care at Edinburgh Napier University. She has dual nursing and philosophy training, and has a doctoral degree in practical philosophy with a focus on healthcare ethics, person-centred care, mental illness, and patient capacities. She previously worked as a Registered Nurse in intensive care and palliative care in Beirut, Lebanon. Before joining Napier in 2022, she worked at the University of Gothenburg in Sweden where she also completed her doctoral studies. She is a member of the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Her research interests include philosophy and ethics of birth, obstetric violence, phenomenology, clinical decision-making, and healthcare provision.
Rebecca Brew is an Adult Nurse Lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University. She is currently the Deputy Lead for undergraduate nursing module: Caring for Self and Others within the School of Health and Social Care. She formerly worked as an Adult Nurse for the National Health Service (NHS) for almost three decades. Her nursing background has been in Medical Emergency, Infectious Diseases, Telehealth with focus on Clinical Decision Making and Clinical Supervision and was the Practice Educator for Internationally Educated nurses. She served as the equality, diversity and inclusion representative, supporting persons from Global Majority Heritage in health boards in Scotland. She has worked in United Kingdom, Ghana/West Africa and lived in Geneva/Switzerland. She recently developed a training program tailored to, the Nurses and Midwives Council’s (NMC) Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) for Internationally Educated Nurses. She delivered training with a team of nurses and provided Pastoral Care for the Internationally Educated Nurses in a health board in Scotland. She is a Doctoral Candidate, and her research focuses on Internationally educated female West African nurses and their initial transition into the Scottish healthcare workforce: A mixed methods study. Her research interest is in intersectionality, gender, race, social identity and cultural humility. She has a passion for decolonizing the nursing curriculum and spaces. She is currently pursuing her Advance HE Fellowship.