School of Nursing and Midwifery

Preparing for caring

The School was created from the merger of Charles Frears College of Nursing and Midwifery with De Montfort University in 1995. The School’s courses have been commended by a recent NMC visits on a number of areas, in particular, practice learning which includes our effective partnership working with Trust colleagues and the excellent work around the patient and public involvement within all of our courses.

The academic and research staff within the school are all registered nurses and midwives with designated link areas, which enables them to keep in contact with students and staff when on clinical placements. Some of the teaching team participate in new nursing and midwifery initiatives, whilst others are undertaking PhD research projects or writing textbooks with a good national reputation.

The School operates across two campuses: Charles Frears Campus and DMU City Campus. Both campuses are used for teaching all of our courses and both are within walking distance of each other and the city centre. There is also a free bus service available to DMU students between the two campuses.

We offer applicants the opportunity to study nursing at a diploma, advanced diploma or degree level. All our pre-registration programmes provide you with the theory and practice along with full registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a nurse. The programmes provide the qualifications, experience and confidence you need to become a professional nurse in your chosen field of practice: adult, child, learning disability or mental health.

We offer applicants a three year degree programme.  If you are already a registered adult nurse we provide a shortened 18 month degree programme. Both degree programmes aim to provide you with the qualifications, experience and confidence you need to become a professional midwife. Our pre-registration programmes also provide you with full registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a midwife.

According to ‘The Code; Standards of Conduct, Performance and Ethics for Nurses and Midwives’ (NMC 2008), as a registered nurse or midwife you are required to 'keep your knowledge and skills up to date throughout your working life’ and ‘…take part in appropriate learning and practice activities that maintain and develop your competence and performance’.

Whilst such requirements can be met in a variety of different ways, here at De Montfort University, registered nurses and midwives have a number of study opportunities for learning beyond registration/post registration to meet both professional and personal education requirements.