Our dedicated team will use their current professional experience to help you develop your nursing career, giving you the skills to support children, young people and their families.
Using our high-tech facilities and realistic simulation suites you will apply the theory you're learning to practical tasks. The suites have the latest simulators, equipment and life-like mannequins so you can practice care and emergency care situations in the most realistic way possible.
You will learn expert communications skills so you are able to engage, not only with children and young people but also with families and carers so they can deliver follow-up care and medication at home.
You'll gain invaluable experience of real-life nursing environments and graduate with excellent employment prospects.
Once you graduate, you can choose to specialise in fields such as neonatal intensive care, paediatric oncology, or school nursing to name a few.
We have 145 years of experience delivering professional, creative and technical education that prepares our students for success in global careers.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) works with partner organisations to set and maintain high standards of nursing and midwifery education across the UK. The NMC sets standards, guidance and requirements for nursing and midwifery programmes of education across the UK.
Our Nursing (Adult) BSc Honours degree is accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) which means the course is professionally recognised for being of the highest quality, focused on developing the knowledge and skills that employers require.
Our hands-on and practical children and young people's (CYP) nursing course has been developed with our NHS partners, meaning that you'll gain up-to-date skills that are essential to modern careers in CYP nursing.
Our dedicated academic staff will teach you the essential nursing skills needed to effectively take care of CYP patients in a live environment.
On this highly respected course, you will:
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You will learn to assess, plan and implement health care for children and young people effectively. Through detailed modules, you will develop a thorough knowledge of child development from infancy to adolescence. You will learn to recognise health risks associated with different ages and developmental stages, in order to provide the highest standard of care.
We ensure that you develop critical and analytical skills by exploring the philosophical basis of children and young people's nursing practice. You will also debate current and contemporary nursing topics, while considering the future of the profession. Problem solving and making critical decisions will become second nature, and you will become confident in working within collaborative teams in order to deliver effective multi-agency working, which is central to the CYP nurse's role.
You will be able to demonstrate knowledge and skills in meeting the fundamental care needs of people across their lifespan, with a range of physical, mental, cognitive and behavioural health challenges. You will demonstrate high standards of professional conduct in line with the NMC code in all aspects of your practice and be able to carry out a range of procedures, under supervision, that are expected of you at this level, in a variety of health and social care settings.
This module aims to start developing the role and function of the graduate children and young people's (CYP) nurse in health and illness. It will provide the fundamental nursing knowledge required to undertake basic nursing assessment, support and enable people across different life spans in managing and improving physical and mental health, as well as preventing ill health. theories, evidence and models to support the art and science of nursing will be introduced to develop knowledge and understanding about the nature of nursing, the person, health, society and the environment.
This module will introduce and expand on the scientific principles underpinning nursing practice. This module is comprehensive and introduces principles which draw on scientific areas of biopsychosocial and behavioural sciences as related to all areas of nursing with a focus on child and young person’s nursing.
This module aims to provide the student with a foundation to enable the development of appropriate professional attitudes, values, knowledge, skills and conduct to be a graduate adult nurse.
You will demonstrate the relevant knowledge and skills to meet more complex care needs of people across the lifespan with a range of physical, mental, cognitive and behavioural health challenges, across a range health and social care settings in line with the new standards of proficiency. You will be expected to demonstrate increasing independence in your own field of child health practice whilst maintaining high standards of professional conduct in line with the NMC Code, showing awareness of the implications of The Code for self and others.
This module aims to develop the knowledge and skills required of the graduate children and young people’s (CYP) nurse to assess, plan and evaluate care across the lifespan during illness that is person centred and evidence-based. It will focus on interventions to address physical, cognitive, mental, spiritual, behavioural and social health needs during illness.
This module will build upon the scientific module of year 1 to further develop principles and deepen the knowledge and application to child and young person’s nursing.
The module aims to enable students to develop their professional knowledge in Children and Young People's (CYP) nursing practice. They will be facilitated to build on theoretical knowledge to enhance clinical and professional judgements with awareness/sensitivity applicable to the wider perspective of health and social care economics.
This module will support you to develop your skills in understanding your own learning needs and respond professionally to those of others. Support you as a student learner to creatively evaluate, investigate and respond to complex problems. And will provide you with in-depth knowledge of a subject of your choice and to encourage critical, questioning and socially engaged nursing practice.
You will be able to demonstrate the ability to work autonomously in the child health field of practice caring for all people across the lifespan with a range of physical, mental, cognitive and behavioural challenges. You will display advanced clinical skills and have the ability to integrate leadership in all aspects of care management. You will utilise a critical and reflective approach in delivering high standards of professional conduct in line with the NMC Code as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
The aim of this module is to enable you to critically engage with the coordination and management of care delivery for those individuals who are severely ill with life-threatening or limiting illness, or have complex physical/mental health needs requiring long-term care in a range of healthcare settings, working in partnership with the individual, their families where relevant and the multi-disciplinary team to evaluate whether the care is effective and meets desired outcomes. It will focus on encouraging you to build on prior learning in relation to critically applying nursing knowledge, evidence/research and the nursing process in the planning and co-ordination of care for the individual with complex needs.
This module will build upon the scientific module of year 2 to consolidate scientific principles and deepen the knowledge and application. It also aims to extend knowledge and application of pharmacological principles especially as to underpin nursing care within own field of practice and future potential prescribing practice.
The module aims to build upon and consolidate knowledge and skills to manage and lead as an accountable, responsible, emotionally intelligent registered Children’s Nurse within health and social care environments. The module will facilitate critical examination of key concepts and theories of effective leadership and management.
To find out more about this course please download the Nursing (Child) BSc Honours specification (PDF).
We review our courses regularly to improve your experience and graduate prospects so modules may be subject to change.
Our high-tech nursing and midwifery simulation suites will equip you with the knowledge and skills needed for your workplace. You’ll have access to excellent placement opportunities through our partner trusts. Watch our video our of the nursing facilities below.
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We offer lots of support to help you while you're studying including financial advice, wellbeing, mental health, and disability support.
We'll support you if you have additional needs such as sensory impairment or dyslexia. And if you want to find out whether Middlesex is the right place for you before you apply, get in touch with our Disability and Dyslexia team.
Our specialist teams will support your mental health. We have free individual counselling sessions, workshops, support groups and useful guides.
Our Middlesex Unitemps branch will help you find work that fits around uni and your other commitments. We have hundreds of student jobs on campus that pay the London Living Wage and above. Visit the Middlesex Unitemps page.
You can apply for scholarships and bursaries and our MDX Student Starter Kit to help with up to £1,000 of goods, including a new laptop or iPad.
We have also reduced the costs of studying with free laptop loans, free learning resources and discounts to save money on everyday things. Check out our guide to student life on a budget.
Nursing is a flexible and varied career that you can shape to suit your ambitions. Once you finish the course and become a registered children's nurse, you can specialise in a particular area of paediatrics, such as neonatal intensive care or paediatric oncology. Or you could opt to become a school nurse, for example.
There are many well-paid nursing roles within both the NHS and private sector. The skills you'll develop in your studies with us may support you to quickly progress up the nursing career ladder.
We're proud of our strong partnerships with some of London's most prestigious hospitals because they offer you fantastic opportunities to develop your skills and networks in real-life settings.
We will help you secure a placement with one of our partners. Our placement partners include the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trusts, Whittington Health, Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Moorfields Eye Hospital, and North Middlesex University Hospital.
We work in partnership with practice placement providers to ensure that the practice learning environment is conducive to meeting your individual learning needs. A robust process of quality monitoring of the learning environment is in place.
Each practice area has an allocated practice learning support team and practice placement information to further support clinical learning.
These fees are for 2024/25:
Full-time: £9,250
Full-time students: £16,000
The following course-related costs are included in the fees:
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1. UK fees: The university reserves the right to increase undergraduate tuition fees in line with changes to legislation, regulation and any government guidance or decisions. The tuition fees for part-time UK study are subject to annual review and we reserve the right to increase the fees each academic year by no more than the level of inflation.
2. International fees: Tuition fees are subject to annual review and we reserve the right to increase the fees each academic year by no more than the level of inflation.
Any annual increase in tuition fees as provided for above will be notified to students at the earliest opportunity in advance of the academic year to which any applicable inflationary rise may apply.
We’ll carefully manage any future changes to courses, or the support and other services available to you, if these are necessary because of things like changes to government health and safety advice, or any changes to the law.
Any decisions will be taken in line with both external advice and the University’s Regulations which include information on this.
Our priority will always be to maintain academic standards and quality so that your learning outcomes are not affected by any adjustments that we may have to make.
At all times we’ll aim to keep you well informed of how we may need to respond to changing circumstances, and about support that we’ll provide to you.
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