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Nursing (Child) BSc Honours

With expert teaching in our state-of-the-art facilities and exceptional placements at London's leading hospitals, Middlesex will help you become the very best children's nurse you can be
Code
B730
Start
September 2024
Duration
Usually 3 years full-time
Attendance
Full-time
Fees
£9,250 (UK)*
£16,000 (INT)*
Course leader
Year 1 Perry Henry
Year 2 Michelle Benson
Year 3 Mary Clark

Why choose Nursing (Child) BSc at Middlesex?

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.

What you will gain

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.

3 great reasons to pick this course

  • Ranked 2nd in London
    For Nursing and Midwifery by the Guardian University Rankings, 2022
  • New state-of-the-art facilities
    Study in our West Stand facilities. These include our simulation labs with our Lucina VR equipment, the first one in a UK university to simulate an entire birth
  • Student satisfaction
    89% of students were positive about the quality of learning resources and facilities on their course (National Student Survey 2023)

Accreditations

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.

What you will learn

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:

  • Have access to our brand West Stand building, part of a huge re-development project offering state-of-the-art facilities, making us a top educational and high-performance centre for teaching and research excellence
  • Develop your skills in our simulation suites, which are equipped with the latest simulators for practising realistic and emergency care situations
  • Learn through a combination of expert teaching and placements at London's most prestigious hospitals to give you the knowledge and skills to succeed
  • Be supported by an Academic Advisor.

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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.

Modules

  • Year 1 - Compulsory

    • Foundations of Expansive Learning (15 Credits)
      • To equip students to develop their self-awareness through critically reflective activities.
      • To offer students the opportunity to develop a range of applied skills through active enquiry, synthesis and reflection on their personal and professional identities
      • To encourage a broad understanding of the context and complexity of the health and social care issues that students may encounter in their learning journeys and professional careers.
    • Practice Learning 1 Children and Young People's Nursing (30 credits)

      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.

    • Foundations of Scientific Principles for Children and Young People's Nursing (30 credits)

      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.

    • Foundations of Scientific Principles for Mental Health Nursing (30 credits)

      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.

    • Foundations of Professional Nursing Practice (15 Credits)

      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.

  • Year 2 - Compulsory

    • Developing Expansive Learning (15 Credits)
      • To support students to develop their self-awareness through critically reflective activities, gain competence in evaluating their own learning needs and plan to address them.
      • To scaffold student learners with tools to develop their professional presentation and expand their interpersonal and communication skills with increased independence.
      • To provide students with an opportunity to develop in-depth knowledge of a subject of their choice and to encourage a broader understanding of the context and complexity of current health and social care.
    • Practice Learning 2 Children and Young People's Nursing (30 credits)

      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.

    • Consolidating Scientific Principles in Children and Young People's Nursing (30 credits)

      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.

    • Developing Scientific Principles for Children and Young People's Nursing (30 credits)

      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.

    • Developing Professional Nursing Practice in Children and Young People's Nursing (15 credits)

      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.

  • Year 3 - Compulsory

    • Consolidating Expansive Learning (15 credits)

      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.

    • Practice Learning 3 Children and Young People's Nursing (30 credits)

      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.

    • Consolidating Nursing Knowledge in Children and Young People's Nursing (30 credits)

      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.

    • Consolidating Scientific Principles for Children and Young People's Nursing (30 credits)

      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.

    • Consolidating Professional Nursing Practice in Children and Young People's Nursing (15 credits)

      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.

  1. Teaching and independent learning
  2. Coursework and assessment

Facilities

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.

Find out more about our facilities

Student support

We offer lots of support to help you while you're studying including financial advice, wellbeing, mental health, and disability support.

Additional needs

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.

Wellness

Our specialist teams will support your mental health. We have free individual counselling sessions, workshops, support groups and useful guides.

Work while you study

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.

Financial support

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.

How can the BSc Nursing (Child) support your career?

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.

Work placements

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.

  1. UK entry
  2. International entry
  3. How to apply

These fees are for 2024/25:

UK students1

Full-time: £9,250

International students2

Full-time students: £16,000

Additional costs

The following course-related costs are included in the fees:

The following study tools are included in your fees:

  • Free access to the resources, learning materials and software you need to succeed on your course
  • Free laptop loans for up to 24 hours
  • Free printing for academic paperwork
  • Free online training with LinkedIn Learning.

Scholarships and bursaries

To help make uni affordable, we do everything we can to support you including our:

  • MDX Excellence Scholarship offers grants of up to £2,000 per year for UK students
  • Regional or International Merit Awards which reward International students with up to £2,000 towards course fees
  • Student Starter Kit. Get help with up to £1,000 of goods, including a new laptop or iPad. Find out about our MDX Student Starter Kit.

Find out more about undergraduate funding and all of our scholarships and bursaries.

Fees disclaimers

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.

  • Keri Page

    Nursing (Child) BSc graduate

    Before she graduated, Keri secured a job at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital on the rotation programme for newly qualified nurses.

    I like a challenge. Nothing is simple with little people! London is a fantastic city to be a student. It has something for every budget and you can be anything you want and no one will bat an eyelid. And I've found London's cultural diversity very beneficial for my training.

  • Rupia Khan

    Rupia Kahn

    Nursing (Child) BSc graduate

    Rupia now works as a Senior Care Support Worker in a children's care home.

    Middlesex is a very good university to study at and the atmosphere in general is brilliant. Of the different aspects of the course, I would say I enjoyed and benefited from the practical work experience and the friendly supportive lecturers. I learnt a lot while studying and this has helped me to work at the care home and build up to being in a senior care role. After university I found it easy to secure a job which I'm still doing. This has supported me financially and enabled me to settle down and have a family.

  • Lia Grafanakis

    Nursing (Child) BSc student

    As a part of my learning experience at Middlesex I was required to complete a 2 week placement with a charity/organisation of my choice and I decided to volunteer for the Rainbow Trust.

    Volunteering with Rainbow Trust has been great. I’ve learnt about the different types of conditions that babies and children have. It has also strengthened my confidence in myself, interacting with these children and their families and I feel like I have really grown in confidence. Some children I have come across on my ward placements have similar conditions to those I saw during my voluntary placement. Volunteering definitely helped me understand and cope with these situations. It helped me get a grasp of how the family are feeling as you see them in their homes.

    I think having a voluntary placement is extremely important as it allows students to choose something new and something they are interested in.

    Volunteering was an absolutely amazing feeling. I never expected to be back at the hospital I was born at and being able to help people in similar situations to how I was when I was younger really made me feel happy.

    I can’t say I’ve had one best moment as I’ve had many. However, being appreciated and seeing the difference you make to people’s lives is such a wonderful feeling. It motivates me and makes me feel very lucky to be caring for people during difficult moments of their lives.

    When I graduate I hope to go back to university to complete a health visiting course and become a health visitor.


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.

Other courses

Nursing (Adult) BSc Honours

Start: September 2024

Duration: 3 years full-time

Code: B740

Nursing (Mental Health) BSc Honours

Start: September 2024

Duration: 3 years full-time

Code: B760

Nursing (Professional Practice) (Top-up) BSc Honours

Start: January 2024

Duration: 18 months (over 3 terms)

Code: B70C, 144B7NN

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