THE UNIVERSITY of EDINBURGH
DEGREE REGULATIONS & PROGRAMMES OF STUDY 2025/2026
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Nursing Studies
SCQF Level 08 (9 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
NUST08026
SV1
Evidence and Enquiry: Research
Semester 1
20
NUST08024
SV1
Healthy Communities: Society, Culture and Health 2
Semester 2
20
NUST08025
SV1
Innovations in healthcare: Society, Culture and Health 2
Semester 2
20
NUST08022
SV1
Mental Health: Life Sciences and Nursing Care 2
Semester 1
20
NUST08023
SS1
Mind and Body: Life Sciences and Nursing Care 2
Full Year
40
NUST08027
VV1
Mind and Body: Life Sciences and Nursing Care 2 (Visiting Students)
Semester 1
20
NUST08019
SS1
Understanding the Person: Life Sciences and Nursing Care 1
Full Year
40
NUST08020
SV1
What is Health?: Society, Culture and Health 1
Semester 1
20
NUST08021
SS1
What is Nursing?: Society, Culture and Health 1
Semester 2
20
SCQF Level 10 (20 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
NUST10062
SS1
Becoming a Critically Reflective Practitioner
Full Year
20
NUST10022
Cancer Care
Not delivered this year
20
NUST10033
Care of older people: relating theory and policy to practice
Not delivered this year
20
NUST10057
SS1
Clinical Decision Making: Life Sciences and Nursing Care 4
Semester 2
20
NUST10002
Community Nursing
Not delivered this year
20
NUST10050
Contemporary issues in mental health: engaging through the arts, humanities and social science
Not delivered this year
20
NUST10036
SS1
Critical Care Nursing
Semester 1
20
NUST10055
SS1
Culture and healthcare in the UK and International context: Society, Culture and Health 3
Flexible
20
NUST10059
SS1
Dissertation: Research (Bachelor of Nursing with Honours)
Full Year
40
NUST10045
Global Public Health: Principles and Practice of Health Improvement
Not delivered this year
20
NUST10051
SV1
Homeless and Inclusion Health: Global Challenges; Local Perspectives
Semester 2
20
NUST10064
SS1
Learning and Reflecting in a Nursing Attachment
Flexible
20
NUST10061
SS1
Life Sciences and Nursing Care
Full Year
40
NUST10046
SV1
Movement, Activity and Participation
Semester 1
20
NUST10053
SV1
Nursing people with complex needs: Life Sciences and Nursing Care 3
Semester 2
20
NUST10054
SS1
Pathophysiology and nursing care: Life Sciences and Nursing Care 3
Semester 1
20
NUST10060
SV1
Person Centered Care in Practice: Relationships and Emotion
Semester 2
20
NUST10058
SS1
Professionalism: Leading and managing in health and social care: Society, Culture and Health 4
Semester 1
20
NUST10030
Transplantation Nursing
Not delivered this year
20
NUST10056
SV1
Working with data to inform nursing, health and social care research: Research
Semester 2
20
SCQF Level 11 (34 courses)
Code
Availability
Course Name
Period
Credits
NUST11121
SV1
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and Stroke Rehabilitation
Semester 1
20
NUST11116
SV1
Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) and Stroke Rehabilitation (Online)
Semester 1
20
NUST11131
SV1
Advanced Clinical Assessment and Decision-Making: essential skills (On-Campus)
Semester 1
20
NUST11113
Care of Older People: connecting theory, policy and practice
Not delivered this year
20
NUST11048
Clinical Decision Making and Professional Judgement
Not delivered this year
20
NUST11127
SV1
Community Nursing Insights
Semester 2
20
NUST11129
SV1
Contemporary Issues in Leadership for Health and Social Care
Semester 1
20
NUST11092
SV1
Designing Research in Nursing, Health and Social Care
Semester 1
20
NUST11033
Dissertation (MSc Res Nursing Studies)
Not delivered this year
80
NUST11125
SS1
Dissertation - MSc by Research in Nursing Studies
Flexible
140
NUST11132
SS1
Dissertation: Empirical Research
Full Year
60
NUST11095
Dissertation: Empirical Research (MSc Advanced Nursing)
Not delivered this year
60
NUST11112
SS1
Dissertation: Portfolio [Online]
Full Year
60
NUST11133
SS1
Dissertation: Research Proposal
Full Year
60
NUST11096
Dissertation: Research Proposal (MSc Advanced Nursing)
Not delivered this year
60
NUST11106
SS1
Dissertation: Research Proposal (online)
Full Year
60
NUST11087
SV1
Global Public Health: A critical approach to health improvement
Semester 1
20
NUST11105
Global Public Health: a critical approach to health improvement (online)
Not delivered this year
20
NUST11101
SS1
Leading and Managing in Health and Social Care
Semester 1
20
NUST11126
SV1
Learning by doing Research in Nursing, Health and Social Care
Semester 2
20
NUST11103
SV1
Managing Complex Needs
Semester 2
20
NUST11100
SS1
Mental Health and Nursing Care
Semester 1
20
NUST11119
SV1
Movement Activity and Participation: Pathophysiology impact and rehabilitation
Semester 1
20
NUST11097
SV1
Nursing and Global Health Policy: developing your political leadership
Semester 2
20
NUST11104
SV1
Nursing and Global Health Policy: developing your political leadership (online)
Semester 2
20
NUST11130
SV1
Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice (On-Campus)
Semester 2
20
NUST11114
Pathophysiology for Advanced Practice (Online)
Not delivered this year
20
NUST11120
SV1
Person Centred Care in Practice: Relationships and Emotion
Semester 2
20
NUST11117
Person Centred Care in Practice: Relationships and Emotion (Online)
Not delivered this year
20
NUST11118
SV1
Research Methods in Health (Online)
Semester 1
20
NUST11098
Research Practice Attachment
Not delivered this year
20
NUST11128
SV1
Spatiotemporal data analysis in R
Semester 2
20
NUST11108
SV1
Supervised Reading (Online)
Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond
20
NUST11108
SV1
Supervised Reading (Online)
Semester 2
20
NUST11094
SV1
Teaching Practice Attachment
Semester 2
20
Key
Available to all students - SV
Not available to visiting students - SS
Part-year visiting students only - VV
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