Children's Nursing

The BSc (Hons) Children's Nursing prepares students for a fulfilling and rewarding career caring for children and young people and their families. It leads to eligibility to apply for professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Students develop skills and interests in both general medicine and specialist areas to be a confident and compassionate child nurse.

City St George's students benefit from clinical placements at London’s leading hospitals and trusts, with placements in a range of settings allowing students to experience the many different environments and specialisms’ children’s nurses’ work in.

This course is taught through a combination of classroom theory, simulated practice and practice placements. City St George's is home to state of the art clinical facilities including our specialist Clinical Skills Centre, a facility designed especially for students to clinical practice skills in a safe environment, before commencing placements.

Career prospects are excellent for our Children's Nursing graduates - many secure employment within local London trusts and throughout the rest of the UK.

​​You can find extensive information about the modules you can expect to study on this course on our website:
https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/prospective-students/courses/undergraduate/childrens-nursing

Students are assessed using a variety of methods, depending on module choices:

• Practice Assessment Document (PAD): used to demonstrate achievement of practice competencies and also to record the number of hours of practice experience
• Written assignments, including essays: these may take the form of care studies or support another assessment such as a poster presentation
• Written examinations
• Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCEs): practical skills assessments
• Dissertation

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

• Nursing and Midwifery Council