Child Nursing

The Children's Nursing pathway will prepare students to work as Children's Nurses in hospital or community settings.

The Children's Nursing pathway is designed to produce critical thinking, multiskilled practitioners who can facilitate the delivery of effective holistic care to children and their families in a seamless service.

The Year Two theory modules focus on child health in the community and the hospitalised child, to support students in associated placements. Year Two will provide students with the opportunity to experience a community placement, with community children's nurses, health visitors or school nurses then return to the children's ward setting, from where they will be able to have a short experience in an accident and emergency department.

In the final year of the pathway students will gain practice experience in a neonatal high dependency unit. Students will complete the course with a final placement in a children's ward. By the end of the course, students should have experienced a wide range of settings including acute, emergency, high dependency, community, special needs school and continuing care within local service provision. The Year Three modules focus on the highly dependent child and on children and young people with complex needs, and are specifically tailored to enable the student to work in both hospital and community settings caring for children and their families with a range of diverse needs.