Nursing (Child) – BSc (Honours)

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Nursing (Child) – BSc (Honours)

Sheffield Hallam University
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At a glance

Study to become a children's nurse in facilities praised by the UK’s Nursing and Midwifery Council. Gain the professional experience you need to gain employment by spending 50% of your time on placement within a healthcare setting.

Key points
• Train for the workplace in £13 million facilities, including mock wards.• Spend 50% of your time on placement within a local healthcare setting such as the Sheffield Children's Hospital.
• Learn from lecturers with academic and practical expertise.
• Gain a nationally recognised qualification in paediatric life support.
• Gain an additional level two award from the Royal Society of Public Health.

What is child nursing?
Children's nurses provi…

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At a glance

Study to become a children's nurse in facilities praised by the UK’s Nursing and Midwifery Council. Gain the professional experience you need to gain employment by spending 50% of your time on placement within a healthcare setting.

Key points
• Train for the workplace in £13 million facilities, including mock wards.• Spend 50% of your time on placement within a local healthcare setting such as the Sheffield Children's Hospital.
• Learn from lecturers with academic and practical expertise.
• Gain a nationally recognised qualification in paediatric life support.
• Gain an additional level two award from the Royal Society of Public Health.

What is child nursing?
Children's nurses provide physical, emotional, and psychological care and advice to the client and their families. Children's nurses have a responsibility to optimise all aspects of health, life choices and chances for children and young people. Wherever possible all of this is performed in the context of the child or young person within the family. This may be through education, health promotion, support, advice or advocacy and sometimes protection. Understanding of the legal and ethical challenges and opportunities to help children and young people fulfil their optimal potential is essential.

This course

Study to become a children's nurse in facilities described by the Nursing and Midwifery Council as 'a beacon for the future development of health education in this country'. Students who leave the course as qualified nurses go on to work in a wide area of healthcare settings.

We provide modern facilities to help you develop clinical skills and specialist knowledge for your career. You study in our £13 million purpose-built Robert Winston Building on Collegiate Crescent Campus. Its clinical suites, that include mock wards and an operating theatre, replicate the hospital and community settings in which you learn and work. This makes it easier to take what you’ve learnt in the University out into the real world with confidence.

Practice-based learning is central to your development and you spend 50% of each year on clinical placements in a hospital or community setting with Sheffield, Rotherham, Doncaster and Bassetlaw or Barnsley trusts. By learning this way, you find that your academic study supports your learning in clinical practice and you are provided with a mentor to help develop your skills.

In your final year you also write a dissertation, where you develop your specialist understanding and analytical skills by investigating a topic relating to child nursing. The dissertations tackle complex and sometimes contentious issues, these might include non-compliance with treatment in adolescence, or end of life issues for children and their families.

As part of the course you complete a level two award in understanding health improvement, which provides you with a certificate from the Royal Society of Public Health. We are currently the only university in the UK that offers this as part of our healthcare courses.

Another unique opportunity within this course is to take a nationally recognised paediatric life support course.

Key areas of study
Key areas include • biological sciences • social sciences • psychology • practical nursing skills • communication skills • ethics • public health • professional requirements.

Professional mix
Some of your teaching takes place alongside students of other healthcare professions such as physiotherapy and paramedics. This allows you to learn together and understand more about other professions.

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