BNurs (Hons) Children's Nursing

As a Registered Child Nurse you will:

Meet the NMC Standards of proficiency for pre-registration nursing education.
Have obtained the subject knowledge and understanding surrounding the professional and ethical conduct of a nurse, to deliver a high standard of appropriate nursing care and leadership and supervision of others, as well as being able to reflect on your personal and professional development.
Demonstrate subject specific knowledge related to the filed of children's nursing, including professional and ethical practice, appropriate care delivery, managing care and personal and professional management.
Identify health and social care policy trends and be able to use evidence and develop arguments to underpin your own practice, to evaluate the delivery of healthcare services.
Be able to apply decision making and problem solving techniques in order to provide quality care to patients and support their families.

Children's Nursing Hospital Based
Health Visiting After Further Training
Clinical Nurse Specialist- After Some Year Experience
Children's Nursing Community Based
Clinical Practice in a Variety of Settings
Research Project

PLUS EITHER

112 UCAS points
A Levels - grades BBC
BTEC L3 Extended Diploma or OCR Cambridge L3 Technical Extended Diploma - grades DMM
CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma at a B grade
Access to HE Diploma Full award (60 credits) of which a minimum of 45 must be at Level 3 (112 UCAS point equivalence)
Undergraduate or Postgraduate degrees
Foundation degrees /HND/ HNC

Recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for the purpose of registration as a qualified nurse (child).

In order to meet all of the requirements to register as a nurse you will need to fulfil a set number of hours of study which are compulsory this course has been specially designed to provide you with the opportunity to fulfill the requisite number of hours. These have been agreed as 4600 hours in three years. 50% of your course will be situated in the University and 50% in a variety of practice areas.

Some academic modules will be core modules which will mean all students will study together, and some are field specific which relate entirely to children and young people's nursing. In practice students attend a wide range of placements enabling them to care for children and young people with different conditions. At the end of the third year you may opt to undertake a placement overseas.The modules will contain a range of key skills which are essential for successful lifelong learning in healthcare including communication, information computing technology, application of number, working with others, problem solving and how to improve your learning. With a variety of teaching and learning approaches available, this course will help you to develop the skills required to work within, and respond to the healthcare needs of children & young people in a variety of settings.

The Children & Young Peoples Nursing course is provided by a range of specialist lecturers who are committed to upholding the rights of children and young people, to achieve high levels of quality health care through the education and development of student nurses. Ultimately we are committed to developing nurses who can work with children and young people across a range of different health & social care environments as well as contributing to care and interventions from other providers such as social care, education and youth justice.