Nursing with Registration as an Adult Nurse King's College London

Overview

After you graduate Nursing with Registration as an Adult Nurse, you’ll be able to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council as an adult nurse. Our course follows the standards set by the NMC and also offers you option modules so you can tailor the content to your own interests.

King's College London nurses are highly sought after thanks to their professionalism, intelligence and competence. That’s why you can find our graduates in top clinical positions and leadership roles across the country and around the world.

Adult nursing is a dynamic and rewarding career that focuses on caring for adults with a wide variety of health needs, from short-term illnesses to long-term and complex conditions. As an adult nurse, you will develop strong clinical skills while also providing emotional support, advocacy, and guidance to patients and their families. The role offers opportunities to work in hospitals, community settings, and specialist services, giving you the chance to make a real difference in people’s lives every day. Studying adult nursing equips you with the knowledge, practical experience, and professional values needed to deliver safe, compassionate, and evidence-based care—preparing you for a fulfilling career at the heart of healthcare.

Key benefits

• Study on the job, with placements at world-famous London hospitals including King's College Hospital, Guy's and St Thomas', and optional electives in regions like East Asia or Africa

• We have a great track record of developing leaders in the sector - we're now the UK's top nursing faculty and the world's second (QS World University Rankings 2020)

• This Nursing with Registration as an Adult Nurse course offered at King's College London. is delivered by internationally renowned clinicians and academics with a strong focus on promoting evidence-based care and appreciation of translational research.

• We offer a programme of 50% clinical and simulated practice so that you develop a wide set of excellent clinical skills and 50% learning through lectures, seminars and guided learning so that you have the knowledge and understanding to inform your work as a clinician.

• As part of the course, students will develop hands-on experience through training in the state-of-the-art and the award-winning Simulation and Interactive learning Centre, which replicates both hospital and home care environments- including a six-bay adults ward, operating theatre and intensive care unit.