Program Overview

Nursing Studies (Child) BSc (Hons)

Overview

Designed to prepare you for the realities of modern nursing, health, and social care. You gain the knowledge, skills and experience to deliver high-quality, person-centred care in both community and hospital settings as a child nurse.

Course Structure

Year 1 Core Modules

• Fundamentals of Nursing Practice
  • Develop fundamental knowledge and skills that pre-registration nurses must demonstrate when caring for people of all ages and care settings.
  • 40-credit module.
• Nursing Decision-making and Evidence-based Practice
  • Build your knowledge and skills in the role, nature and use of evidence to support decision-making, health and social care practice and service improvement.
  • 40-credit module.
• Professionalism, Relationships and Communication
  • Develop professionalism, relationship building and communication skills that pre-registration nurses must demonstrate when caring for people across all care settings.
  • 20-credit module.
• Understanding Health and Illness
  • Develop your understanding of health and illness across the lifespan, exploring factors contributing to human development from conception to death.
  • 20-credit module.

Year 2 Core Modules

• Children’s Nursing Decision-making and Evidence-based Practice 2
  • Explore person-centred evidence-based decision-making within child nursing practice.
  • 40-credit module.
• Children’s Nursing Intervention 1
  • Focus on nursing actions, procedures or treatments that promote positive expected outcomes for patients and their families.
  • 20-credit module.
• Fundamentals of Children’s Nursing Practice 2
  • Combine theory and practice elements, building on the earlier module.
  • 40-credit module.
• Service Improvement
  • Explore the quality improvement agenda and use a systematic approach to improve the safety, effectiveness and people’s experience of care.
  • 20-credit module.

Final-year Core Modules

• Children’s Nursing Decision-making and Evidence-based Practice 3
  • Equip you with the necessary knowledge, skills and understanding to make evidence-based decisions to support the delivery of high-quality patient-centred holistic care.
  • 40-credit module.
• Children’s Nursing Intervention 2
  • Explore a biopsychosocial perspective in relation to patient care.
  • 20-credit module.
• Dissertation Module
  • Develop and build on your ability to take on analytical enquiry relating to a professional point of view.
  • 40-credit module.
• Fundamentals of Children’s Nursing Practice 3
  • Build on your nursing skills from year one and two to support you in the co-ordination, delivery, and evaluation of nursing care for individuals and groups across the lifespan.
  • 40-credit module.

How You Learn

• Learning Structure
  • Spend 50% of your time learning theory in the classroom or independently and 50% of your time on placement.
  • Theory sessions are held Monday to Friday and may include some evening classes.
  • Placements may require early starts, night duties, and weekend shifts, and may not be near your home or within your local trust.
• Blended Learning Approach
  • All modules adopt a blended approach to learning and teaching.
  • Theory is delivered through teacher and student-led activities, including lectures, discussions, group activities, seminar presentations, tutorials, skills workshops, experiential learning or simulations, service user-focused activities, and e-learning.
• Diverse Placement Experiences
  • Engage in practice placements in a range of healthcare environments, including hospital and community settings.
  • Gain experience with client groups from other nursing fields, giving you a broad understanding of the health and nursing needs across all areas of practice, which intersect with child nursing services.

How You Are Assessed

• Assessed through written assignments, reflections, case studies, exams, poster presentations, and projects.
• Theory modules are closely integrated with practical experiences, with content directly linked to practice proficiencies.
• Each year, you are assessed in practice through an electronic Practice Assessment Document (ePAD).

Entry Requirements

• A minimum of two GCSEs at grade 4 (C) or above including English language and maths.
• Plus any of the following qualifications:
  • GCE and VCE Advanced Level: 112 points from two or three A levels, or equivalent T levels.
  • AS Level: These are only acceptable combined with other qualifications.
  • Access course: 112 UCAS points from a QAA-recognised Access course (any combination).
  • BTEC QCF Extended Diploma: 112 points (DMM).
  • CACHE Level 3 Extended Diploma in Health & Social Care: 112 points (C) in health and social care.
  • Foundation degree: A pass in any subject.
  • Irish Leaving Certificate: 112 points from four or five Highers/Honours subjects.
  • Open University: 60 credits at Level 4 with the Open University or a CertHE pass in any subject.
  • Scottish Highers: 112 points from four or five Highers.
  • Advanced Scottish Highers: 112 points from three Advanced Highers.

Employability

• On graduation, you are eligible for registration with the regulator of NMC as a children’s nurse.
• This can lead to a range of exciting and rewarding career opportunities within the NHS and private sectors, in the UK and overseas.

Tuition Fees

• Full-time
  • £9,535 a year (UK applicants).
  • £17,000 a year (international applicants).
• Part-time
  • Not available part-time.

Professional Accreditation

• On successful completion of the course, you will be eligible to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council on the nurses' part of the Professional Register (Children's Nursing).