Our children's nursing degree is split between learning on campus and developing your skills on placements across the midlands region. You’ll learn the unique physical, emotional and developmental needs of young patients, from newborns to teenagers. Our child nursing degree is taught on-campus through lectures, seminars, and practical skills sessions, and with placements across the region. Throughout the course we place the needs of the child or young person and their family at the forefront of everything we do. Your lecturers will get to know you personally. They use tailored support and reflections to understand your strengths and they know how to push you to develop throughout your children's nursing degree. When you start, you’ll be assigned a Personal Academic Tutor. Usually this is one of the lecturers teaching on your course and they typically remain with you throughout your studies. To prepare you for practice you will take part in skills and simulation days. These hands-on sessions take place in our simulation suites which replicate the clinical environment you’ll be working in when you graduate. You'll become confident in different techniques with a range of simulated case studies and clinical scenarios, all designed to give you an authentic insight into the role of a child nurse. You’ll put your knowledge and decision making into practice with placement opportunities in the community where you will be working with children, young people, and their families. Placement settings include hospitals, day care centres, schools, hospices, clinics and in the community.
