Your Children’s Nursing degree will prepare you for essential nursing practice, as well as for specialist areas such as long-term conditions and complex and disabling healthcare issues. This includes conditions and challenges that are specific to young people. It also includes mental health care, as younger people living with long-term conditions are far more vulnerable to developing emotional disorders. 

Alongside this you’ll learn to work in close partnership with the families and carers of children in your care. 

As well as learning how to look after children who are unwell, you’ll also learn how to help foster healthy lifestyles in patients’ early years and adolescence, contributing to their health and wellbeing well into adulthood. 

Your course will feature a 50/50 balance between theory and practice. Throughout the course you’ll learn through first-hand practical experience. You’ll also work in collaboration with other healthcare students. This hands-on and collaborative approach is key to helping you achieve the best physical, emotional health and wellbeing outcomes. 

You will graduate able to meet the physical, emotional and social development needs of children and young people, with a variety of clinical conditions and complex health challenges, in a wide range of healthcare settings. 

With the NHS Constitution at its core, our Children’s Nursing degree provides rigorous training, fantastic placement opportunities and is fully approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). 

Highlights of Children's Nursing at UEA 

• Wide range of placements including community settings, hospitals and specialist care units 

• Service-user contact from the very outset 

• Regular group work with other nursing, health and medical students 

• Personal mentor to guide you throughout 

• Emphasis on enquiry-based learning to help you link theory to practice 

• Excellent facilities, including simulation skills laboratories 

• Chance to experience healthcare in another country with an elective placement 

• Highly supportive culture 

• Highly motivated students 

ABOUT

Train to excel in an important and highly valued area of nursing. As a children’s nurse you could have an incredibly positive impact on the health and wellbeing of young people, from newborns to 19-year-olds. 

On this course you’ll discover the health and wellbeing needs of children and young people, and learn how to give growing minds and bodies the care and support they need. You’ll explore developmental anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology, and discover the emotional and social development needs of children and young people too. You’ll learn how to care for the unwell, as well as how to promote healthy development and prevent physical and mental ill health. 

ACCREDITATION

This course is recognised by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for the purpose of registration as a qualified nurse (mental health).

AFTER THE COURSE

As a UEA Children’s Nursing graduate, you’ll be a highly sought-after healthcare professional. Your placements will mean that you will have accrued enough experience or ‘time in practice’ to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). So you’ll graduate ready to start your career in any number of demanding yet rewarding environments, such as: 

• Children’s wards and adolescent units 

• Outpatients clinics 

• Specialist nursing roles 

• Emergency care 

• Theatres and recovery 

• High dependency and intensive care units 

• Community nursing teams 

• Children’s hospices 

• Schools 

CAREER DESTINATIONS

• UK NHS Healthcare providers 

• Private organisations 

• Non-statutory organisations 

• International nursing 

• Research institutes 

• Schools 

• Higher education institutes 

• Research