BSc (Hons) Children's Nursing
Overview
A place that cares
Planning a career in nursing? Our state of the art laboratories, set up to simulate hospital ward and critical care environments, are the perfect place to learn, develop and practice your skills. Children’s nurses, in collaboration with other professionals, strive to promote health in children and young people to ensure they enter adulthood in good health.
Why Nursing at LSBU?
- Professional accreditation: our courses are approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Graduates of this course are eligible to register as a children’s nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
- Career opportunities: you’ll gain practical experience in leading NHS Trusts across London, and 99% of students are in employment 6 months after graduating (Destination of Leavers from Higher Education 2017/18).
- Dedicated facilities: We have two children’s skills laboratories, set up like nursing wards for learning manual handling of patients, basic life support skills and skills specific to the field of nursing.
- Joint 1st in the UK for career prospects (Guardian League Table 2020).
Modules
The course emphasises a vocational approach to teaching, and prepares you for a career in a range of rewarding children’s nursing opportunities across primary care, specialist and intensive care children’s units. It will develop your abilities as a student nurse to consider the wider aspects influencing children’s health needs, preparing you for future leadership in an ever-changing health care system.
Experience is gained in several world-renowned central and outer London hospitals including:
- Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
- Barts Health NHS Trust
- Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Evelina London Children’s Hospital
- Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust
- Variety Children’s Hospital at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Croydon Health Services NHS Trust
- Kingston Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust
- Whittington Health NHS Trust
You will be allocated one of these hospitals as your host Trust during the course.
Methods of assessment for course overall: 53% coursework.
Some compulsory skills sessions may take place in the evening.
Year 1
- Assessing needs and planning care in Children’s Nursing
- Biosciences for nursing
- Introducing evidence-based practice for nursing
- Communication for nursing
Year 2
- Providing care in Children’s Nursing
- Applied physiology for Children’s Nursing
- Appraising evidence for practice
- Promoting health and preventing ill health
- Safe and effective practice
- Mother and new-born
Year 3
- Enhancing and evaluating care in Children’s Nursing
- Pharmacology and prescribing ready for Children’s Nursing
- Implementing best practice
- Complex and critical care of children and young people
- Transitioning to leadership
Entry requirements
- A Level BBC/A*A* and 5 GCSEs including Maths and English at grade 4 or above (previously A*-C) or equivalent; or;
- BTEC Extended Diploma DMM and 5 GCSEs including Maths and English at grade 4 or above (previously A*-C) or equivalent; or;
- Access to HE Diploma in Nursing or similar with 15 Distinctions and 30 Merits at Level 3 and 15 Credits at Level 2; and GCSEs Maths and English grade 4 or above (previously A*-C) or equivalent; or;
- Equivalent level 3 qualifications worth 112 UCAS points; and 5 GCSEs including Maths and English at grade 4 or above (previously A*-C) or equivalent.
English language
If your first language is not English you must have the following minimum International English Language Test Score (IELTS) results at the time of applying:
- 7.0 overall or equivalent
- 7.0 in the listening and reading sections
- 7.0 in the writing and speaking sections.
Foundation Year
Been out of study for a long time? Or maybe you haven’t met the entry requirements of your chosen degree? Our entry year acts as a bridge to degree-level studies.
Advanced entry
If you have already completed some studies at another university, we may be able to consider you for advanced entry. Please see our advanced entry page for more information.