BSc (Honours) Nursing (Child)

Year of Entry 2024/25
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BSc (Honours)

Nursing (Child)

Course full Full-time Nursing and midwifery

Let our expert lecturers, practice partners and users of services transform you into a competent and compassionate children's nurse.

This course is now full for 2024

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Everything you need to know...

  • Pound sign

    What is the fee?

    Home: £9,250 per year
    International/EU: £18,655 per year

  • Time

    How long will I study?

    3 Years

  • Location

    Where will I study?

    Collegiate Campus

  • Checkmark

    What is the UCAS code?

    B730

  • Date

    When do I start?

    September 2024


Course summary

  • Understand health sciences in the practice setting.
  • Gain the skills and values to enter highly skilled employment.
  • Develop a strong professional identity and confidence.
  • Learn to develop and deliver person-centred care.
  • Collaborate with other professional groups in health and social care.
  • Home students can access a non-repayable maintenance grant of at least £5,000 per year.

This unique course offers you an exciting opportunity to become a fully qualified children’s nurse, transforming the lives of individuals and communities. You'll learn to understand the unique role of providing physical, emotional and psychological care and advice to children and their families or carers.

Accredited by
  • Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)

This course is approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).



How you learn

Your lecturer's view
Watch course leader and senior lecturer Sarah McDonald talk about this course.

At Sheffield Hallam, all our courses are designed to engage you with the world and challenge you to think in new ways. You’ll get to collaborate with others, and you’ll be taught in a supportive environment where you can thrive.

On this course you’ll learn from enthusiastic academic staff who have a variety of clinical expertise and experience. You’ll apply your theoretical study directly to your practice setting, using the knowledge, skills and attributes you’ve gained.

Nurses are an integral part of a multidisciplinary team. So in some modules, you’ll learn and collaborate with students from other health and social care courses. This approach will help you to deliver person centred-care – with an understanding of how other professionals contribute to the person's journey through health and social care services.

You learn through

  • Practice-based learning (50%)
  • Lectures
  • Workshops
  • Tutorials
  • Projects and group work
  • Presentations
  • Simulation
  • Independent learning
  • Skills rehearsal
  • Technology-enhanced learning

Course leaders and tutors

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Richard Clark
Senior Lecturer, Nursing

Senior Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University

Student view
After her own positive experience with the children's hospital, Jess Pidcock is training to be a children's nurse to make a difference to families.

Applied learning

Work placements

You’ll apply the theory you study to practice-based learning experiences. Here you’ll develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice – preparing you to become a life-long, competent professional. The experiences you’re provided with are compulsory to achieve the course’s practice-based learning outcomes.

These experiences will help you build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity, and curiosity. They’ll take place in different practice-based learning environments – reflecting the range of ways services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements, alongside real-world experience of services delivered face to face to service users. 

We’ll ensure the practice-based learning element of your course complies with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) – which governs the child nursing profession. So by the end of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to show that you meet the requirements to register as a children’s nurse.

The university will ensure that the practice learning element of your course will be compliant with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) governing your chosen profession. This is so that by the end of your course, you will have been provided with the opportunity to demonstrate attainment of the requirements to register as a professional with your chosen profession.


Future careers

This course prepares you for a career in:

  • Community nursing
  • Medical nursing
  • Surgical nursing
  • Accident and emergency care
  • Paediatric critical care
  • Health visiting and school nursing
  • Research
  • Education
  • Further study

Previous graduates of this course have gone on to work in:

  • Community settings
  • Hospitals
  • Private and voluntary settings

Where will I study?

You study at Collegiate Campus through a structured mix of lectures, seminars and practical sessions as well as access to digital and online resources to support your learning.

Collegiate campus

Collegiate Campus can be found just off Ecclesall Road, a bustling student district.

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Location

Collegiate Crescent
Sheffield
S10 2BP

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Equipment and facilities

On this course you work with

  • Clinical suites
  • Simulated clinical environments
  • Replicated community settings
  • Oxford Medical Simulation - Virtual Reality software

We’ve invested over £100m in new facilities to help you study how and when you want. This means 24-hour libraries and study spaces designed by our students.

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Learn what it's like to study health and social care at our Collegiate Campus from our adult nursing student Alex.

Entry requirements

All students

We will offer flexibility on our usual entry requirements for clearing applicants. Please call us on 0330 024 6390 to discuss your options and apply.

Additional information for EU/International students

This course is not open to international students who require a Tier 4 (General) student visa to study in the UK. If you are an international applicant but do not require a Tier 4 (General) student visa, email our Admissions Team to find out whether you’re eligible to apply.


Modules

Important notice: The structure of this course is periodically reviewed and enhanced to provide the best possible learning experience for our students and ensure ongoing compliance with any professional, statutory and regulatory body standards. Module structure, content, delivery and assessment may change, but we expect the focus of the course and the learning outcomes to remain as described above. Following any changes, updated module information will be published on this page.

Year 1

Compulsory modules

Module
Credits
Assessment
Collaboration For Individual And Community Wellbeing
Credits 20
Assessment Practical(100%)
Fundamentals Of Nursing Practice
Credits 40
Assessment Coursework(100%)
Part 1 Placement 
Credits -
Assessment
Personal And Professional Development
Credits 20
Assessment Coursework(100%)
Sciences For Nursing Practice
Credits 40
Assessment Practical(100%)
Year 2

Compulsory modules

Module
Credits
Assessment
Applied Sciences For Nursing Practice
Credits 40
Assessment Coursework(100%)
Assessing And Addressing Complexity In Practice
Credits 20
Assessment Practical(100%)
Developing Nursing Practice
Credits 40
Assessment Coursework(100%)
Evidence And Enquiry For Practice
Credits 20
Assessment Coursework(100%)
Part 2 Placement
Credits -
Assessment Exam(100%)
Final year

Compulsory modules

Module
Credits
Assessment
Complexity & Leadership In Professional Practice
Credits 20
Assessment Coursework(100%)
Consolidating Sciences For Nursing Practice
Credits 20
Assessment Coursework(100%)
One Credit Module – Bsc (Hons) Nursing
Credits -
Assessment
Part 3 Placement 
Credits -
Assessment
The Advancing Professional
Credits 40
Assessment Coursework(100%)
Transition To Registration In Children’S Nursing Practice
Credits 40
Assessment Coursework(100%)

Fees and funding

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Health and social care funding

Home fee-paying students can access a non-repayable maintenance grant of at least £5,000 per year. You may also be eligible for additional financial support based on your circumstances.

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Additional course costs

The links below allow you to view estimated general course additional costs, as well as costs associated with key activities on specific courses. These are estimates and are intended only as an indication of potential additional expenses. Actual costs can vary greatly depending on the choices you make during your course.

General course additional costs

Additional costs for Nursing and midwifery courses (PDF, 358.7KB)

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Any offer of a place to study is subject to your acceptance of the University’s Terms and Conditions and Student Regulations.

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