General Nursing (Honours) Munster Technological University

Overview

This General Nursing (Honours) course at Munster Technological University 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.

What are my career opportunities

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 IT, Tralee nursing students have worked across Europe, and in America, Canada, Australia, Africa, Saudi Arabia and other middle-eastern countries.