Nursing (Child)

Leeds Trinity University

Our innovative Nursing (Child) degree will enable you to develop the knowledge and skills needed for this rewarding career.Children’s nurses deliver proficient and compassionate care to children, young people and their families.About this courseChildren’s nurses work with people from a diverse range of cultures and backgrounds challenging inequalities and social injustices often linked with disadvantages which can negatively impact on their health and wellbeing.On this course you will develop as a confident, critically thinking children’s nurse who can provide physical, emotional and psychological care and support to children, young people and their families.Throughout your studies, you’ll actively engage with contemporary research and gain a solid understanding of how to promote health and educate children and their families or carers how to live healthier lifestyles. You’ll learn how to assess, lead, co-ordinate and deliver compassionate, sensitive and culturally-informed care to children and their families at home, in the community or in hospital.You’ll build your knowledge and skills of therapeutic interventions and the pharmacological management of disease, including the safe administration of medication.You’ll learn and practise your clinical skills in a safe and controlled environment through teaching sessions in dedicated facilities, including clinical suites and replicated community settings, supported by digital health technologies.