Course summary

Why choose this course -Access our Clinical Simulation Centre, including our wards and operating theatre, to practise real scenarios on lifelike paediatric and neonatal manikins and actors. -Spend half of your training in clinical placements, to practise your skills in healthcare settings like paediatric accident and emergency departments and the world-renowned Great Ormond Street Hospital, under the supervision of qualified practitioners. -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. -Get the academic requirements needed to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) to work as a children's nurse once you’ve graduated. What you will study On this course, you’ll learn to care for infants, children and young people, in a variety of settings. You’ll also see how to support and educate families, so they can be involved in their child’s care. In your first year, you’ll study topics that are fundamental to children’s nursing, including the fundamental 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 exploration of children and young people who are acutely unwell. You’ll gain a more in-depth appreciation for 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 an interesting perspective 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. Foundation year The BSc Nursing with foundation has an additional year of study designed to support your transition on to latter years of the course. You will study full-time for one year at foundation level, and after successfully completing it you will be ready to move on to the next three years of the course. Students will be required to undertake some local insight days as part of their foundation year programme. These local insight days will be arranged by the University. Students will be responsible for associated costs (i.e. travel).