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Health and wellbeing

Join our nursing programme that combines the best of teaching, technology, simulation, and practical experience to prepare you as a professional Adult or Mental Health nurse. Gain placement opportunities in hospital and community settings including NHS Highland, NHS Grampian and NHS Western Isles areas.

Choose to study online on Scotland’s only integrative healthcare degree, which has been developed in consultation with industry to closely reflect the changing requirements of the healthcare sector in the UK and abroad.

Study optometry, following a proven, problem-based, and team-based approach to your learning and teaching. You will enjoy placements across a variety of settings, seeing real-life patients in real-life settings. Or, choose oral health science for a structured professional career in dental hygiene and dental therapy at our purpose-built clinical facilities in Dumfries, Inverness, and Stornoway.

Gain understanding of human behaviour through experimentation and observation, and learn how people change and develop throughout their lives on our psychology degree. Or study health and social studies, exploring sociology, psychology, public health, rural issues, ethics, and the integration of health and social care.

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Undergraduate

If you don't initially meet the entry requirements for degree study there is always another route and you may want to consider an HNC or access course.

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Darryl, nursing graduate

The huge variety of placements in different clinical environments, have provided some unique learning opportunities and I’ve been able to work alongside specialist nurses, advanced nurse practitioners and consultants, which has helped me learn much more about their respective areas of expertise.

Darryl studied BSc Nursing at UHI House, Inverness.

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Careers

Graduates progress into a variety of roles:

  • Allied care services and management
  • Community development and health needs assessment
  • Dental hygienists and dental therapists
  • Education and teaching
  • Nursing
  • Optometrist 
  • Private and multidisciplinary practice
  • Psychologist
  • Research and development

Health Care is forecast to account for 9.3% of Scotland’s total number of job openings in the long-term (2024-2031)

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