Program Overview

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Overview

Become a flexible practitioner caring for children, young people, and their families in a variety of settings as part of an interprofessional approach to care.

Why You'll Love It

Practical teaching in state-of-the-art skills facilities

The integration of theory and practice in our purpose-built skills suites will allow you to practise and develop skills in a safe environment in preparation for clinical placements, ensuring you gain real, hands-on experience.

Delivered by experienced registered nurses

The course is delivered by experienced registered nurses who have expertise in both teaching and research and a variety of clinical specialities, including all four fields of nursing, including district nursing, health visiting, medical, surgery and critical and intensive care. We work closely with local acute and community providers to ensure that the course remains contemporary.

Excellent links with practice learning providers

The University of Chester has excellent links with practice learning providers, such as local NHS Trusts, the independent sector and primary care. This ensures that you will gain a wide variety of learning experiences in a range of practice learning environments and clinical and healthcare settings. Furthermore, this relationship ensures that you will be fully supported by mentors, academic links

Course Structure

Foundation Year

The Professional Studies Foundation Year route is designed to provide you with the knowledge and skills you will need to be successful at university and whilst on a professional and vocational course.

You will study a range of topics relating to your profession and the environment in which you will eventually work. Areas of focus include person-centred care, mental health, children’s development, communication in a professional setting, social inequality, and how to apply psychology in the real world.

Teaching and learning is tailored and designed with specific modules that relate to the profession you are preparing to join. You will also be introduced to the professional codes and standards that you must uphold such as, the Nursing and Midwifery Code, Social Work England, College of Policing, and national Safeguarding guidance.

• Term 1: Exploring Professional Practice
• Term 2: The Human Body, Health and Disease
• Term 3: Psychology, Wellbeing and Society

Year 1

You will apply theory to practice in Children's Nursing degree while developing key skills. You will also learn about anatomy, physiology and pharmacology.

MODULES

• Applied Anatomy, Physiology and Integrated Pharmacology (20 Credits) : This module is designed to develop an understanding of basic human anatomy and physiology, show how these are linked to the biological basis of pharmacology, and subsequently applied in practice.
• Introduction to Person-Centred Care (20 Credits) : This module aims to introduce the concept of holistic person-centred care of service users across the lifespan with an understanding of human development. Understanding the importance of effective communication with service user, family, MDT across healthcare settings.
• Person-Centred Care (20 Credits) : This module aims to introduce evidence-based practice, and the impact on the provision of high-quality care. The module will explore the impact of socio-economic and environmental factors on health and well-being across the lifespan.
• 21st Century Nurse(20 Credits) : This module is designed to prepare you to become an effective nurse for the 21st century integrating learning-to-learn and reflection leading to persona and professional development.
• Practice Learning 1 (40 Credits) : This module provides you with practice learning opportunities which provides a range of experiences across fields. The module will introduce cross field and field specific skills for nursing. You will develop an understanding of, and be able to demonstrate, the skills required for practice.

Year 2

Aims to equip you with the skills to demonstrate competence in coordinating and leading care. You will again study anatomy, physiology and pharmacology.

MODULES

• Interprofessional Research & Innovation (20 Credits) : This module develops an understanding of interprofessional practice, evidence-based service improvement and innovation.
• Practice Learning 2a Children's Nurse (20 Credits) : This module provides you with practice learning opportunities which provide a range of experiences across fields. The module will build on cross field and field specific skills for nursing. You will actively participate in and work towards increasing confidence and competence is able to provide care.
• Practice Learning 2b Children's Nurse (20 Credits) : This module provides you with practice learning opportunities which provide a range of experiences across fields. The module will continue to build on cross field and field specific skills for nursing. You will actively participate in and work towards increasing confidence and competence providing care with minimal guidance.
• Field Nursing 1 Child (20 Credits) : This module aims to explore health promotion and prevention of ill health of service users. The aim is to demonstrate understanding of enhanced communication to empower and enable service users, and work effectively across the multi-disciplinary team and a range of settings.
• Field Nursing 2 Child (20 Credits) : This module will focus on field specific nursing conditions with increasing complexity and service users with co-morbidities. The module will explore identification and management of risk and factors which influence this.
• Applied Sciences in Children's Field (20 Credits) : This module will support you to apply knowledge of human anatomy and physiology, principles of pharmacology and how these are applied in field specific nursing practice.
• Year abroad study exchange (120 Credits)

Year 3

Focuses on advancing your leadership and clinical skills in Children’s Nursing degree, and consolidating your understanding in other nursing fields.

MODULES

• Prescribing Ready (20 Credits) : This module critically explores the complexities of human anatomy and physiology and pharmacology in preparation for registration and prescribing ready.
• Advancing Leadership and Supervision (20 Credits) : This module is designed to support transition to registration, through developing your leadership and teaching potential in preparation for 21st-century nursing.
• Extended Project(40 Credits) : This module is designed to support transition to registration, through developing your appreciation of the steps involved in developing a proposal for service improvement in order to enhance the delivery of care for the 21st century.
• Practice Learning 3 Children's Nurse (40 Credits) : This module will provide you with practice learning opportunities which provide a range of experiences across fields. The module will build on cross field and field specific skills for nursing. You will actively participate in and work towards increasing confidence and competence to be able to provide care with minimal guidance.
• Numeracy Competency for Registration : This module aims to consolidate previous learning in the Nursing programme related to numeracy and enable you to achieve the required level of numeracy competency for entry on to the nursing register as required by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (2018) Standards for pre-registration nursing programmes. Part 3 of Realising professionalism: Standards for education and training section 4.6.

Entry Requirements

• Home Students
• International Students
• Foundation Year
• UCAS points
• GCE A Level
• BTEC
• T Level
• Irish / Scottish Highers
• International Baccalaureate
• Access requirements
• OCR
• Extra Information / General Entry Requirements
• Safeguarding / Suitability

Fees and Funding

• Home Students
• Additional Costs
• per year for a full-time course (2025/26)

Our full-time undergraduate tuition fees for Home students entering University in 2025/26 are £9,535 a year, or £1,590 per 20-credit module for part-time study.

You can find more information about undergraduate fees on our Fees and Finance pages.

Students from the UK, Isle of Man, Guernsey, Jersey and the Republic of Ireland are treated as Home students for tuition fee purposes.

Students from countries in the European Economic Area and the EU will pay International Tuition Fees.

Students who have been granted Settled Status may be eligible for Home Fee Status and if eligible will be able to apply for Tuition Fee Loans and Maintenance Loans.

Students who have been granted Pre-settled Status may be eligible for Home Fee Status and if eligible will be able to apply for Tuition Fee Loans.

Your course will involve additional costs not covered by your tuition fees. This may include books, printing, photocopying, educational stationery and related materials, specialist clothing, travel to placements, optional field trips and software. Compulsory field trips are covered by your tuition fees.

If you are living away from home during your time at university, you will need to cover costs such as accommodation, food, travel and bills.

A satisfactory Disclosure and Barring Service Check (DBS) and occupational health clearance are required prior to admission onto the course. For details about the cost of the DBS and for further information please visit the Disclosure and Barring Service - DBS page on the website.

Who You'll Learn From

Sarah Rowland

Senior Lecturer

Karen Blythe

Senior Lecturer

Jo Bentham-smith

Senior Lecturer

Rebecca Bryson

Senior Lecturer

Suzanne Seabra

Senior Lecturer

Sean Baker

Senior Lecturer

Andrea Jones

Senior Lecturer

Sam Wills-eve

Senior Lecturer

Debbie Wyatt

Senior Lecturer

Veronique Oldfield

Deputy Head

Sandy Costall

Senior Lecturer

Nicky Nagy

Lecturer

Where You'll Study Wheeler, Chester

City centre location

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Located within the lively city centre of Chester and overlooking the River Dee, Wheeler is home to most courses within Nursing and Midwifery, Health and Social Care, and Law.

Health and Social Care simulation suite

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Our simulation suite emulates diverse healthcare spaces, ranging from a patient’s home and community clinic settings to acute care settings, including a Triage Assessment Area, Maternity Delivery Suite, Children’s Ward, and a General Ward.

On-site library

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Our on-site library has a variety of study spaces and IT facilities, in addition to book collections for Health and Medicine, Law and Policing. There is a comprehensive collection of online books, journals and databases available for students to access from home and campus.

Social spaces

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Wheeler’s café and coffee shop serves hot and cold drinks, snacks, and delicious meals. Meanwhile, the student common room provides a social, group work, and discussion space for students.

Your Future Career

Job Prospects

Successful graduates are registered with Nursing and Midwifery Council as a Children's Nurse.

Once registered, graduates have an opportunity to work in both the private and public sector including hospital or community-based roles along with research and teaching.

In addition to working within the UK, registered graduates can explore working abroad.

Careers Service

The University has an award-winning Careers and Employability service which provides a variety of employability-enhancing experiences; through the curriculum, through employer contact, tailored group sessions, individual information, advice and guidance.

Careers and Employability aims to deliver a service which is inclusive, impartial, welcoming, informed and tailored to your personal goals and aspirations, to enable you to develop as an individual and contribute to the business and community in which you will live and work.

We are here to help you plan your future, make the most of your time at University and to enhance your employability. We provide access to part-time jobs, extra-curricular employability-enhancing workshops and offer practical one-to-one help with career planning, including help with CVs, applications and mock interviews. We also deliver group sessions on career planning within each course and we have a wide range of extensive information covering graduate jobs and postgraduate study.

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