Study Nursing, Midwifery and Paramedic Science
Real experience. Real impact. Real careers. Start your healthcare journey at UWS.
UWS is leading the way
UWS is Scotland’s largest provider of nursing and midwifery education. Our graduates and staff are improving health and wellbeing across the country and around the world.
On our Paramedic Science course, you will develop the confidence, compassion and skills needed for a career in frontline emergency care.
Our pre-registration nursing courses combine University study with 50% hands on, work-based learning in real healthcare settings. You’ll train and learn in state-of-the-art facilities designed to prepare you for the realities and rewards of a career in healthcare.
Nursing, Midwifery & Paramedic Science programmes
We offer the following pre-registration programmes in Nursing and Midwifery:
Hear from Carra - BSc Adult Nursing student
Carra studies on our BSc Adult Nursing programme at our Paisley Campus.
The facilities are really amazing at UWS. When you walk into a skills lab you’ll see dummies breathing and you’ll see the eyes move, and I think it’s just the most incredible thing you’ve ever seen.”
Carra found her place at UWS – find yours!
Real-world experience
Opportunities to work directly with healthcare professionals helps you develop the range of skills required for required for contemporary practice.
Our nursing and Midwifery courses combine 50% work-based learning with hands-on experience in real healthcare settings. You will spend time on placement learning on a variety of shift patterns, with our local healthcare and NHS Health Board partners.
Paramedic Science students gain practice-based opportunities within the Scottish Ambulance Service and in a range of associated health and social care settings.
First-class facilities
Our campuses are equipped with state-of-the-art clinical simulation facilities and contemporary healthcare technologies. The facilities replicate the provision of care across a person’s lifespan in hospital, primary care and domestic environments.
Investment in the Domus Initiative (a simulated home life environment) provides students with experience of caring for older people living with dementia.
Our Lanarkshire Campus’s birthing room contains a maternal simulator and birthing pool. This safe, supportive and authentic environment allows you to develop knowledge and best practice in a realistic way.
Paramedic Science students have access to our immersive learning suites and dedicated paramedic clinical skills laboratory at our Lanarkshire campus. The facilities allow academic theory to be practiced in a realistic clinical simulation environment.
Hear from Caitlin - BSC Mental Health Nursing student
Caitlin studies on our BSc Mental Health Nursing programme at our Ayr Campus.
There’s a great variety of people on the course. There are teenagers that have just left school and older adults who have been out of higher education for a number of years.”
Caitlin found her place at UWS – find yours!
Open Days & Events
Discover UWS at an Open Day or information session.
Our Undergraduate events are perfect chance to get to know more about the student experience and what it is like to study at UWS.
We host a range of events throughout the year, both on campus and online.
Funding your studies
If you are ordinarily resident in Scotland, you may be eligible to receive £10,000 worth of funding in each of the first three years of your BSc programme, and £7,500 if you study an honours year, for tuition and living costs.
This funding is available through the Paramedic, Nursing and Midwifery student bursary scheme (PNMSB) which comes from the Scottish Government Health Directorate but is administered by the Student Awards Agency Scotland (SAAS).
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