Nursing (Child) BSc (Hons)

Sheffield Hallam University

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• Understand health sciences in the practice setting.

• Gain the knowledge, skills and values to enter into highly skilled employment.

• Develop a strong professional identity and confidence.

• Learn to develop and deliver person-centred care.

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

How You Learn All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which 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 — where you’ll work on real cases.

Nurses are an integral part of a multidisciplinary team. In some modules, you will 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

• projects and group work

• presentations

• simulation

• independent learning

• skills rehearsal

• technology enhanced learning

Applied learning Theory will prepare you for practice learning experiences are designed to help you not only to apply theory to practice, but to develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice in order to become life-long, competent professionals. You are required to attend the practice learning experiences provided on the course to achieve the course practice learning outcomes.

You’ll undertake a range of practice learning experiences, helping you to build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity and curiosity. This will take place in different practice learning environments, reflecting the range of ways in which 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.

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.