Program Overview

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BSc (Honours) Nursing (Child) with Foundation Year

Course summary

This unique course offers you an exciting opportunity to become a fully qualified children’s nurse, transforming the lives of individuals and communities. You'll learn to understand the unique role of providing physical, emotional and psychological care and advice to children and their families or carers.

How you learn

On this course you’ll learn from enthusiastic academic staff who have a variety of clinical expertise and experience. You’ll apply your theoretical study directly to your practice setting, using the knowledge, skills and attributes you’ve gained.

Nurses are an integral part of a multidisciplinary team. So in some modules, you’ll learn and collaborate with students from other health and social care courses. This approach will help you to deliver person-centred care – with an understanding of how other professionals contribute to the person's journey through health and social care services.

You learn through

• Practice-based learning (50%)
• Lectures
• Workshops
• Tutorials
• Projects and group work
• Presentations
• Simulation
• Independent learning
• Skills rehearsal
• Technology-enhanced learning

Applied learning

Work placements

You’ll apply the theory you study to practice-based learning experiences. Here you’ll develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice – preparing you to become a life-long, competent professional. The experiences you’re provided with are compulsory to achieve the course’s practice-based learning outcomes.

These experiences will help you build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity, and curiosity. They’ll take place in different practice-based learning environments – reflecting the range of ways services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements, alongside real-world experience of services delivered face to face to service users.

We’ll ensure the practice-based learning element of your course complies with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) – which governs the child nursing profession. So by the end of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to show that you meet the requirements to register as a children’s nurse.

Modules

Year 1

• Developing The Fundamentals Of A Healthcare Professional
  • Credits: 60
  • Assessment: Coursework (60%), Practical (40%)
  • Module Aim: This module will develop your knowledge and understanding of academic, personal, and professional skills that enable transition into Level 4 study and future employability.
• Promotion Of Contemporary Issues In Healthcare
  • Credits: 60
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Module Aim: In this module you will develop your knowledge and understanding of a range of contemporary issues that currently influence healthcare. It will focus on developing your ability to find, select and apply appropriate research and evidence.

Year 2

• Collaboration For Individual And Community Wellbeing
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: Practical (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module introduces you to the biopsychosocial, cognitive, political, economic, and medical factors which influence the health and wellbeing of individuals, diverse populations and communities.
• Fundamentals Of Nursing Practice
  • Credits: 40
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module explores the knowledge, skills and attitudes that underpin and support nursing, holistic care and professionalism.
• Part 1 Placement
  • Credits: -
  • Assessment: -
  • Module Aim: This module spans year one of the undergraduate pre-registration nursing programme, providing the learning opportunities to achieve part one through completion of the PAN Midlands Yorkshire and East Practice Assessment Document (MYEPAD), or equivalent.
• Personal And Professional Development
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module consolidates your progression to graduate-level study and professional practice, reflecting on your role as a professional who delivers safe and effective person-centred care.
• Sciences For Nursing Practice
  • Credits: 40
  • Assessment: Practical (100%)
  • Module Aim: The aim of this module is to enable you to understand the key bio/psycho/social principles, that underpin person centred care and health care practice across the life span.

Year 3

• Applied Sciences For Nursing Practice
  • Credits: 40
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module applies the key biological, psychological and sociological principles that underpin healthcare practice and person-centred care.
• Assessing And Addressing Complexity In Practice
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: Practical (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module is your chance to apply your professional knowledge, skills and values in an integrated manner.
• Developing Nursing Practice
  • Credits: 40
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module develops your practice in nursing and healthcare practice for all people who use services and carers.
• Evidence And Enquiry For Practice
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module introduces you to research and enquiry design and methods.
• Part 2 Placement
  • Credits: -
  • Assessment: Exam (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module spans year two of the undergraduate pre-registration nursing programme, providing learning opportunities to achieve part two of the programme through completion of the PAN Midlands Yorkshire and East Practice Assessment Document (MYEPAD), or equivalent.

Year 4

• Complexity & Leadership In Professional Practice
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module develops your systematic understanding of leadership and education concepts in practice.
• Consolidating Sciences For Nursing Practice
  • Credits: 20
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module consolidates the key biological, psychological and sociological principles that underpin the management of people with complex care needs.
• One Credit Module – Bsc (Hons) Nursing
  • Credits: -
  • Assessment: -
  • Module Aim: This module allows you to demonstrate that you’ve met the requirements for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
• Part 3 Placement
  • Credits: -
  • Assessment: Exam (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module spans year three of the undergraduate pre-registration nursing programme, providing the learning opportunities to achieve part three of the programme through the PAN Midlands Yorkshire and East Practice Assessment Document (MYEPAD), or equivalent.
• The Advancing Professional
  • Credits: 40
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module enables you to undertake a sustained, in-depth piece of independent learning, demonstrating a critical understanding and applying appropriate research methods within a piece of work.
• Transition To Registration In Children’S Nursing Practice
  • Credits: 40
  • Assessment: Coursework (100%)
  • Module Aim: This module enables you to demonstrate effective leadership knowledge and skills within contemporary children’s nursing practice.

Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in

• Community nursing
• Medical nursing
• Surgical nursing
• Accident and emergency care
• Paediatric critical care
• Health visiting and school nursing
• Research
• Education
• Further study

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work in

• Hospitals
• Community settings
• Private and voluntary settings

Equipment and facilities

On this course you work with

• Clinical suites
• Simulated clinical environments
• Replicated community settings
• Oxford Medical Simulation - Virtual Reality software

We’ve invested over £100m in new facilities to help you study how and when you want. This means 24-hour libraries and study spaces designed by our students.

Where will I study?

You study at Collegiate Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.

Entry requirements

• UCAS points: 64
• GCSE: Science at grade C or 4 or equivalents, Maths at grade C or 4 or equivalents, English Language or Literature at grade C or 4 or equivalents
• Access: an Access to HE Diploma from a QAA recognised Access to HE course in a science based subject. Normally we require 15 credits at level 2 and 45 at level 3.
• IELTS: 7.0 or above, with a minimum score of 6.5 in each skill.

Fees and funding

• Home students: £9,535 per year (capped at a maximum of 20% of this during your placement year)
• International students: £20,000 per year, which includes an annual placement supplement of £2,000.

Additional course costs

The links below allow you to view estimated general course additional costs, as well as costs associated with key activities on specific courses. These are estimates and are intended only as an indication of potential additional expenses. Actual costs can vary greatly depending on the choices you make during your course.

• General course additional costs
• Additional costs for Health and Social Care (PDF, 277.7KB)