Discover Nursing

Our Discover Nursing Day offers the chance to gain hands-on experience of the different degree courses on offer at Manchester, which include Child, Adult and Mental Health Nursing.

The School is recognised as one of the world’s leading nursing education and research departments, achieving 8th place in the QS World Rankings in 2016. Our graduates are highly employable.

On this day we can offer you an opportunity to speak to current students about their student experience here at Manchester. You can take part in a taster session and also have a tour of our clinical skills labs. There will be opportunities a plenty to put your questions to current staff and students and to explore our teaching facilities.

Provisional programme

9.30am
Registration and refreshments
10am
Introduction to the day
10.15am
Group activity: What do nurses do?
10.45am
A career in nursing: An overview of the roles open to you
11.15am
Break
11.30am
A day in the life of a student nurse
12.30pm
Lunch (provided)
1.30pm
Review of morning’s activities and introduction to the afternoon
1.45pm
Clinical session 1
2.30pm
Break and move to Session 2
2.45pm
Clinical session 2
3.30pm
What do I need to do to get a place at Manchester?
3.45pm
Questions and feedback
4pm
Finish