Adult Nursing Placement Options
Nursing courses are based here in our stunning West Downs Centre
Considering one of our Nursing courses here at 51¶¯Âþ? You have come to the right place! Read on to find out more about your placement options on our Adult Nursing course.
Placements are a key part of your real-world learning experience on Adult Nursing and you will be out and about learning, challenging yourself, making connections and building your experience in each of your three years of study. Throughout your journey you will be fully supported in practice by experienced practice supervisors and assessors and by our teaching and placements teams within the University. This support will enable you to develop into a confident practitioner.
There are a wide variety of practice experiences available for your placements and you will be supported in building your skills and experience on each placement you take. The first setting to come to mind might be ‘hospital ward’ but you have so many more options. Here are just some of the areas of nursing and the types of placements available to you as an Adult Nursing student here at 51¶¯Âþ:
- Care of the Older Person &²Ô»å²¹²õ³ó; acute care, nursing home, community services, frailty team or rehabilitation team
- Community/Primary Care &²Ô»å²¹²õ³ó; community nursing teams, community services, GP surgeries or hospital outpatient departments 
- Emergency Care &²Ô»å²¹²õ³ó; emergency department, acute assessment units or outreach critical care
- End of Life Care &²Ô»å²¹²õ³ó; hospices or community palliative care 
- Hospital Intensive Care 
- Prison Nursing &²Ô»å²¹²õ³ó; placements at HMP 51¶¯Âþ 
- Self-Managed Placement – sexual health clinics, fertility clinics, charities, overseas opportunities (previous Adult Nursing students have completed a placement in Ghana, Nepal and the Philippines), private clinics and hospitals and specialist care centres
- Senior Nurse Placements – time with Chief Executives, Chief Nurses or Nurse Consultants 
- Specialist Nurse Rotations &²Ô»å²¹²õ³ó; working with specialist nurses within an area like tissue viability, infection control, research, safeguarding or domestic abuse advocacy 
- Ward Placements &²Ô»å²¹²õ³ó; surgical, medical, long-term conditions, women’s health or stroke and many more
Fully-equipped Skills Suite in our West Downs Centre
That’s enough from us! Over to current third-year student Grace on her favourite experience.
“To date, my favourite placement has been with a community team in Hampshire. I was with this team for 11 weeks during my third year and I got to grow my independence and practise lots of clinical skills such as wound care, compression bandaging, dopplers and skills surrounding palliative care. Over the course of the 11 weeks, I studied the wound care formulary used by the designated trust and began to see patients independently when my practice assessor deemed me ready. I saw patients independently in their homes and managed their care with minimal supervision. From this experience, I felt as though I developed my confidence significantly and I also strengthened my clinical decision-making skills and prioritisation of care.
"I really enjoyed practising my wound care daily as it is very rewarding to visibly see the changes in patients’ wounds when you see them consistently over the course of a few weeks. I was able to discharge patients I had seen previously after treating their wounds, with the support from colleagues. When I qualify, I hope to go into emergency medicine in A&E or AAU (Acute Assessment Unit).”
Grace, Adult Nursing student
If you have any questions on what to expect on placement or any other questions about the course, please contact nursingadmin@winchester.ac.uk
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