Nursing (Child) BSc (Hons)

Course summary

• Understand health sciences in the practice setting.
• Gain the knowledge, skills and values to enter into highly skilled employment.
• Develop a strong professional identity and confidence.
• Learn to develop and deliver person-centred care.

This unique course offers you an exciting opportunity to transform the lives of individuals and communities by becoming a fully qualified children's nurse. You'll learn to understand the unique role of the children's nurse in providing physical, emotional, and psychological care and advice to children and their families.

How you learn

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

On this course, you’ll learn from enthusiastic academic staff who have a variety of clinical expertise and experience. You’ll apply your theoretical study directly to your practice setting — where you’ll work on real cases.

Nurses are an integral part of a multidisciplinary team. In some modules, you will learn and collaborate with students from other health and social care courses. This approach will help you to deliver person centred-care with an understanding of how other professionals contribute to the person's journey through health and social care services.

You learn through

• practice-based learning (50%)
• lectures
• workshops
• projects and group work
• presentations
• simulation
• independent learning
• skills rehearsal
• technology enhanced learning

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• community nursing
• medical nursing
• surgical nursing
• general practice
• occupational health nursing
• accident and emergency care
• health visiting
• research

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work in

• hospitals
• community settings
• private and voluntary settings