Nursing Science University of Galway

Overview

The Nursing Science (General) at University of Galway equips students with the knowledge, practical skills, and professional values needed for modern nursing practice. This internationally recognised degree combines academic excellence with hands-on learning, preparing graduates to become safe, competent, and compassionate Registered General Nurses. 

Learning Outcomes 

Upon graduation, students will have achieved the following programme learning outcomes, aligned with NMBI Requirements and Standards:

• Acquire the knowledge, professional values and discipline specific competencies to deliver safe, high quality, compassionate, ethical, legal and accountable practice across the life spectrum, and in diverse healthcare settings. 

• Demonstrate knowledge, clinical skills and professional behaviours underpinned by the Scope of Nursing and Midwifery Practice Framework (NMBI 2015) and the Code of Professional Conduct and Ethics for Registered Nurses and Registered Midwives (the Code) (NMBI 2021). 

• Practise as a competent registered nurse to assess, plan, prioritise, deliver and evaluate nursing care based on a comprehensive and systematic assessment of health and nursing needs in consultation with the person receiving such care, their representative and the multidisciplinary team. 

• Apply theoretical principles to the practice of nursing using professional judgment, critical reasoning, problem solving and self-reflection derived from an evidence base and from the applied life, health and social sciences. 

• Deliver person-centred, high-quality and safe nursing care based on a collaborative relationship with a person receiving such care that respects their dignity, autonomy, self-determination and rights to make health and life choices across the health spectrum. 

• Demonstrate skills of effective communication, delegation, inter-professional liaison and team working to promote the quality and safety of the healthcare environment. 

• Maintain competency to develop and enhance the capacity for self-awareness, reflective practice, leadership and professional scholarship. 

• Apply evidence from an appraisal of research studies relevant to the division of nursing to the practice of it.  

Careers

As a registered General Nurse, you can work in a wide variety of healthcare settings including: 

• Acute hospital care

• Continuing care

• Community nursing

• Private healthcare

• Voluntary and independent sector