Nursing Studies (Registered Nurse Children & Young People Nursing)

Why choose this course
Access our state-of-the-art Clinical Simulation Centre, featuring wards and an operating theatre, to practise scenarios with professional actors and interactive paediatric and neonatal manikins.

• Gain extensive experience out on clinical placements with our NHS partner trusts, which you’ll combine with theoretical learning to ensure you meet the requirements of our registering body, the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

• Learn from a multidisciplinary team of lecturers, who are all healthcare professionals with experience of working in the NHS. Many are also active researchers, investigating topics like cancer, dementia, ethics, and compassionate practice.

• Benefit from a course that champions interprofessional learning, allowing you to practise your skills alongside midwifery, paramedic science, and medicine students.

• Get the academic requirements needed to register with the NMC to work as a children's nurse once you’ve graduated.

• If you're a home student, you're eligible for an NHS training grant of £5,000 per year and financial support for excess placement travel or accommodation costs.

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What you will study
In your first year, you’ll study topics that are fundamental to children’s nursing, including concepts of caring (such as communication), anatomy and physiology, and public health promotion, ensuring you have a solid foundation upon which to build the rest of your degree.

During your second year, you’ll build upon the knowledge gained in your first year with more complex concepts and and through the exploration of children and young people who are acutely unwell. You’ll gain a more in-depth appreciation of safeguarding as well as developing your understanding of research and the application of evidence.

In your third year, you’ll develop your decision-making and leadership skills and will gain insight into how psychosocial, spiritual, ethical and legal influences have an impact on the way patient care is provided. You’ll learn about complex and chronic conditions affecting infants, children and young people and how care decisions impact the holistic delivery of care.

Course Modules

To see the full range of modules for this course please visit our website – the link is under the Course contact details. You will also find full details of the programme, including programme structure, assessment methods, contact hours and Graduate prospects.