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Adult Critical Care Nursing, PGCert

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What will I learn?

COURSE OVERVIEW

This Adult Critical Care Nursing programme will prepare you for a role as a critical care nurse, ensuring you are educated to the highest level, to guarantee quality care for critically ill patients.

This one-year, part-time postgraduate certificate (PGCert) is commissioned by the HEIW, and delivered in collaboration with partner health boards, Swansea Bay University Health Board and Hywel Dda University Health Board, and has been supported by national critical care organisations including the British Association of Critical Care Nurses and the All Wales Critical Care Nursing Committee.

By the end of this programme, you will be able to demonstrate skilled performance and provide enhanced theoretical knowledge as a registered critical care nurse. Upon completion of the course, you will hold a nationally recognised postgraduate certificate in critical care nursing as stipulated by the Guideline of Provision for Intensive Care Services (GPICs).

OUR ADULT CRITICAL CARE NURSING EXPERIENCE

Our excellent facilities and teaching staff will ensure the programme provides its intended public benefit, which ensures all critical care nurses are educated to the highest level. Our realistic clinical suite will allow you to demonstrate skilled performance, apply knowledge and understanding and develop a more varied critical care experience that will keep you abreast with the ever-changing evidence base within which you practice.

You will work with a designated mentor in clinical practice for a minimum of 40% of the programme where you will demonstrate your evolving theoretical and practical skills, leadership and decision-making skills, teaching and supervision skills.

Your experience will incorporate interprofessional education to facilitate critical care nurses who will lead, supervise and coordinate compassionate, person-centred and evidence-based care.

ADULT CRITICAL CARE NURSING CAREER

Upon graduating, you will hold a nationally recognised postgraduate certificate in critical care nursing as stipulated by the Guideline of Provision Intensive Care (GPICs). You will also be eligible to pursue further level seven and eight programmes taught here at Swansea University.

Job prospects are excellent with Swansea University ranked 1st for Career Prospects (Guardian University Guide 2024).

You will acquire highly transferable skills that are sought after by employers in critical care and other sectors that will allow you to continue and advance your clinical careers or plan a career in an education or managerial role in healthcare.

Which department am I in?

Nursing

Study options

Full Time (1 year)

Tuition fees
To be confirmed

*Price shown is for indicative purposes, please

Start date

September 2025

Venue

Singleton Park Campus

Singleton Park,

Swansea,

SA2 8PP, WALES, Wales

Entry requirements

For international students

You should be a registered critical care nurse, employed within either a critical care unit or cardiac intensive care unit and have employer consent before applying to the programme. Prior to entry, you will have completed Step One Competencies of the National Competency Framework for Registered Nurses in Adult Critical Care and completed an introductory critical care course. You should also hold a BSc in Nursing (level 6) and a GCSE grade C or above in English and Welsh. Most academic departments will ask for an IELTS 6.5 (or equivalent) for postgraduate degrees but there are exceptions and you should always check the individual entry requirements on our course pages, or check the conditions included in your offer letter.

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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About Swansea University

A dual campus university, Swansea University boasts excellent teaching, research and outstanding student support.

  • 86 percent of research quality is world leading (REF 2021)
  • 26th in the UK (Guardian University Guide 2023)
  • UK Top 15 for Course Satisfaction (Guardian, 2023)
  • The sixth safest place to study in the UK (CUG , 2023)