The BSc (Hons) in General Nursing Course gives you the skills to provide nursing care in a wide variety of clinical settings. It emphasises the importance of working with other professions and planning individualised nursing care in partnership with patients. As with all nurse education programmes, our focus is on caring, communication and understanding the patient’s experience of health and illness.

Over the course of the four year programme, you develop a range of skills, including professional/ethical practice; holistic approaches to care and the integration of knowledge; interpersonal relationships; organisation and management of care; and personal and professional development. Nursing offers exciting opportunities to develop valuable specialist knowledge, and skills that are in demand both nationally and internationally.

This nursing course consists of 76 weeks of classroom-based theory and practical learning, interspersed with 81 weeks of clinical placements. Nursing students complete their programme with a 36 week continuous internship rostered placement. Clinical practice can take place locally including counties Kerry and West Cork, as well as internationally and encompasses a very broad range of clinical settings, including general medical and surgical nursing, accident and emergency, outpatients, operating theatre and nursing children - among others.

Our nursing programmes are taught in the purpose-built Sólás building at the North Campus. This state-of-the art facility has technology enhanced classrooms, lecture halls, practical skills laboratories and computer suites. Our partnership with the HSE and Bon Secours Hospital in Tralee offers students a wide range of exciting clinical placement facilities.

Throughout this nursing course, you will get great support from the University and from clinical staff, both in the classroom and on placement.

Skills developed over the four year course include: Professional/ethical practice, holistic approaches to care and the integration of knowledge, interpersonal relationships, organisation of management of care, personal and professional development.

Nursing offers exciting opportunities to develop valuable specialist knowledge and skills that are in demand both nationally and internationally. Registered general nurses can develop career pathways in a number of ways, including:

• Clinical practice: specialisation in a wide range of clinical practice areas, e.g. Cardiology, Intensive Care, Palliative Care, Public Health Nursing and many more
• Management: progression in nursing and health care management structures
• Research: joining the fast developing field of nursing and health care research
• Education: opportunities to become a lecturer in a third level or health care institution

Former MTU Kerry Campus nursing students have worked across Europe, and in America, Canada, Australia, Africa, Saudi Arabia and other middle-eastern countries.