36 monthsProgramme duration
21,000 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Nursing
Degree
BN
Study Level
Bachelor's
Study Mode
On Campus
Being a children and young people’s nurse – or paediatric nurse, is a rewarding role which requires compassion, patience and versatility. Children’s nurses provide high quality, evidence-informed care for children experiencing a wide range of physical, emotional and mental health conditions and disabilities. They care for babies and children of all ages, providing support for their families and the teams involved with the child.
Validated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), our Bachelor of Nursing (BN) Child Field prepares you to become professional, caring, compassionate, skilled and competent nurse, who prioritises patient needs and delivers individualised nursing care to achieve the best health outcomes.
The course blends wide-ranging clinical placements* with research based theory and supported clinical skills training featuring virtual technologies, including a family of clinical manikins, which enable you to practise skills in a supported environment.
Children's nursing care extends from birth to the age of 18, and sometimes older where the child is living with a complex medical health need or disability.
Children’s nurses are taught to recognise the healthy and the ill or injured child. They deliver expert care for children of all abilities and uphold the rights of the child to be kept safe and secure, free from harm in all clinical settings. They work with the children themselves, their families and multiagency teams to build trust and to provide the highest quality care and patient experience for the baby, child or young person.
Effective communication skills are key to the child being listened to and understood. Children may have speech and language needs, or difficulties with learning and understanding, and may be unable to speak or communicate their needs. Children’s nurses are also taught how to work closely with family members and carers to reduce the impact of being ill, or in hospital, and who often experience difficult or stressful circumstances.
In addition to communication skills, you will be taught a range of other essential skills on this degree. Monitoring new-born babies to ensure that they are safely cared for, for example, or organising blood tests for a toddler diagnosed with diabetes. You will learn to apply wound dressings to an injured child, or reassure a teenager who has received difficult news and a worrying diagnosis.
Spending half of your time on placement, designated placement supervisors and assessors will support you to develop your clinical knowledge and skills. You are encouraged to reflect on what you have learned in clinical practice with enthusiastic and experienced staff, who have wide experience across clinical specialisms and have worked in a range of clinical settings. You will also hear about topical issues, children’s rights and legislation from current practitioners, who will share, for example, the impact of stigma around ethnicity, mental health or disabilities.
Clinical placements* across Wales are designed (subject to availability) to reflect the diversity of the hospital and community settings in which children’s nursing takes place. Children’s nurses may work in general paediatric wards, specialist paediatric hospitals like Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, special care baby units, children’s outpatient departments, Minor Injuries units, hospice settings and as part of community general and specialist teams caring for children and their families in their own homes.
From the outset, clinical skills training builds the skills required to become a professional registered nurse. Our simulation-based training equipment, using VR and lifelike manikins, lets you safely examine ‘patients’ and interact in real-time to clinical situations based on real-life examples. This prepares you for the realities of working and responding to such situations, both on placement and future practice.
*Please note that in order to achieve the necessary diversity of placement experience to meet the requirements for clinical competency, you will need to travel to placements across Wales.
Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
To work in the UK as a nurse, you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). To do this, you first need to study an NMC-recognised degree programme, which leads to a specific degree qualification for your chosen field (adult, child, mental health or learning disability nursing).
Bangor University’s adult nursing degrees are developed and delivered with NHS partners and adhere to the NMC education standards. On graduation, you’ll be eligible to register with the NMC as a children’s nurse. As you progress through your career, with further training, you could go on to specialise in roles such as health visiting, neo-natal nursing or school nursing.
Funding support for nursing students
Considerable financial support is available if you are considered a home student* for tuition fees (someone already living within the UK) and can commit to working in Wales for two years on graduation. You could get your tuition fees covered in full through the NHS Wales bursary scheme and claim for a £1,000 bursary contribution to living costs. A wide range of additional support, subject to eligibility, is also available for childcare, parent learners, disabled students and more.
Furthermore, as part of the Welsh Government’s commitment to develop a bilingual workforce, additional financial incentives are available if you study part of your course in Welsh. We will support you to access Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Scholarships which could award you up to £1,000 for each year of your study, depending on how many credits you study in Welsh.
*Please note that as this course is funded by NHS Wales, we are unable to accept applications from international students.
Validated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), our Bachelor of Nursing (BN) Child Field prepares you to become professional, caring, compassionate, skilled and competent nurse, who prioritises patient needs and delivers individualised nursing care to achieve the best health outcomes.
The course blends wide-ranging clinical placements* with research based theory and supported clinical skills training featuring virtual technologies, including a family of clinical manikins, which enable you to practise skills in a supported environment.
Children's nursing care extends from birth to the age of 18, and sometimes older where the child is living with a complex medical health need or disability.
Children’s nurses are taught to recognise the healthy and the ill or injured child. They deliver expert care for children of all abilities and uphold the rights of the child to be kept safe and secure, free from harm in all clinical settings. They work with the children themselves, their families and multiagency teams to build trust and to provide the highest quality care and patient experience for the baby, child or young person.
Effective communication skills are key to the child being listened to and understood. Children may have speech and language needs, or difficulties with learning and understanding, and may be unable to speak or communicate their needs. Children’s nurses are also taught how to work closely with family members and carers to reduce the impact of being ill, or in hospital, and who often experience difficult or stressful circumstances.
In addition to communication skills, you will be taught a range of other essential skills on this degree. Monitoring new-born babies to ensure that they are safely cared for, for example, or organising blood tests for a toddler diagnosed with diabetes. You will learn to apply wound dressings to an injured child, or reassure a teenager who has received difficult news and a worrying diagnosis.
Spending half of your time on placement, designated placement supervisors and assessors will support you to develop your clinical knowledge and skills. You are encouraged to reflect on what you have learned in clinical practice with enthusiastic and experienced staff, who have wide experience across clinical specialisms and have worked in a range of clinical settings. You will also hear about topical issues, children’s rights and legislation from current practitioners, who will share, for example, the impact of stigma around ethnicity, mental health or disabilities.
Clinical placements* across Wales are designed (subject to availability) to reflect the diversity of the hospital and community settings in which children’s nursing takes place. Children’s nurses may work in general paediatric wards, specialist paediatric hospitals like Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, special care baby units, children’s outpatient departments, Minor Injuries units, hospice settings and as part of community general and specialist teams caring for children and their families in their own homes.
From the outset, clinical skills training builds the skills required to become a professional registered nurse. Our simulation-based training equipment, using VR and lifelike manikins, lets you safely examine ‘patients’ and interact in real-time to clinical situations based on real-life examples. This prepares you for the realities of working and responding to such situations, both on placement and future practice.
*Please note that in order to achieve the necessary diversity of placement experience to meet the requirements for clinical competency, you will need to travel to placements across Wales.
Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
To work in the UK as a nurse, you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). To do this, you first need to study an NMC-recognised degree programme, which leads to a specific degree qualification for your chosen field (adult, child, mental health or learning disability nursing).
Bangor University’s adult nursing degrees are developed and delivered with NHS partners and adhere to the NMC education standards. On graduation, you’ll be eligible to register with the NMC as a children’s nurse. As you progress through your career, with further training, you could go on to specialise in roles such as health visiting, neo-natal nursing or school nursing.
Funding support for nursing students
Considerable financial support is available if you are considered a home student* for tuition fees (someone already living within the UK) and can commit to working in Wales for two years on graduation. You could get your tuition fees covered in full through the NHS Wales bursary scheme and claim for a £1,000 bursary contribution to living costs. A wide range of additional support, subject to eligibility, is also available for childcare, parent learners, disabled students and more.
Furthermore, as part of the Welsh Government’s commitment to develop a bilingual workforce, additional financial incentives are available if you study part of your course in Welsh. We will support you to access Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Scholarships which could award you up to £1,000 for each year of your study, depending on how many credits you study in Welsh.
*Please note that as this course is funded by NHS Wales, we are unable to accept applications from international students.
Programme overview
Main Subject
Nursing
Degree
BN
Study Level
Bachelor's
Study Mode
On Campus
Being a children and young people’s nurse – or paediatric nurse, is a rewarding role which requires compassion, patience and versatility. Children’s nurses provide high quality, evidence-informed care for children experiencing a wide range of physical, emotional and mental health conditions and disabilities. They care for babies and children of all ages, providing support for their families and the teams involved with the child.
Validated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), our Bachelor of Nursing (BN) Child Field prepares you to become professional, caring, compassionate, skilled and competent nurse, who prioritises patient needs and delivers individualised nursing care to achieve the best health outcomes.
The course blends wide-ranging clinical placements* with research based theory and supported clinical skills training featuring virtual technologies, including a family of clinical manikins, which enable you to practise skills in a supported environment.
Children's nursing care extends from birth to the age of 18, and sometimes older where the child is living with a complex medical health need or disability.
Children’s nurses are taught to recognise the healthy and the ill or injured child. They deliver expert care for children of all abilities and uphold the rights of the child to be kept safe and secure, free from harm in all clinical settings. They work with the children themselves, their families and multiagency teams to build trust and to provide the highest quality care and patient experience for the baby, child or young person.
Effective communication skills are key to the child being listened to and understood. Children may have speech and language needs, or difficulties with learning and understanding, and may be unable to speak or communicate their needs. Children’s nurses are also taught how to work closely with family members and carers to reduce the impact of being ill, or in hospital, and who often experience difficult or stressful circumstances.
In addition to communication skills, you will be taught a range of other essential skills on this degree. Monitoring new-born babies to ensure that they are safely cared for, for example, or organising blood tests for a toddler diagnosed with diabetes. You will learn to apply wound dressings to an injured child, or reassure a teenager who has received difficult news and a worrying diagnosis.
Spending half of your time on placement, designated placement supervisors and assessors will support you to develop your clinical knowledge and skills. You are encouraged to reflect on what you have learned in clinical practice with enthusiastic and experienced staff, who have wide experience across clinical specialisms and have worked in a range of clinical settings. You will also hear about topical issues, children’s rights and legislation from current practitioners, who will share, for example, the impact of stigma around ethnicity, mental health or disabilities.
Clinical placements* across Wales are designed (subject to availability) to reflect the diversity of the hospital and community settings in which children’s nursing takes place. Children’s nurses may work in general paediatric wards, specialist paediatric hospitals like Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, special care baby units, children’s outpatient departments, Minor Injuries units, hospice settings and as part of community general and specialist teams caring for children and their families in their own homes.
From the outset, clinical skills training builds the skills required to become a professional registered nurse. Our simulation-based training equipment, using VR and lifelike manikins, lets you safely examine ‘patients’ and interact in real-time to clinical situations based on real-life examples. This prepares you for the realities of working and responding to such situations, both on placement and future practice.
*Please note that in order to achieve the necessary diversity of placement experience to meet the requirements for clinical competency, you will need to travel to placements across Wales.
Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
To work in the UK as a nurse, you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). To do this, you first need to study an NMC-recognised degree programme, which leads to a specific degree qualification for your chosen field (adult, child, mental health or learning disability nursing).
Bangor University’s adult nursing degrees are developed and delivered with NHS partners and adhere to the NMC education standards. On graduation, you’ll be eligible to register with the NMC as a children’s nurse. As you progress through your career, with further training, you could go on to specialise in roles such as health visiting, neo-natal nursing or school nursing.
Funding support for nursing students
Considerable financial support is available if you are considered a home student* for tuition fees (someone already living within the UK) and can commit to working in Wales for two years on graduation. You could get your tuition fees covered in full through the NHS Wales bursary scheme and claim for a £1,000 bursary contribution to living costs. A wide range of additional support, subject to eligibility, is also available for childcare, parent learners, disabled students and more.
Furthermore, as part of the Welsh Government’s commitment to develop a bilingual workforce, additional financial incentives are available if you study part of your course in Welsh. We will support you to access Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Scholarships which could award you up to £1,000 for each year of your study, depending on how many credits you study in Welsh.
*Please note that as this course is funded by NHS Wales, we are unable to accept applications from international students.
Validated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), our Bachelor of Nursing (BN) Child Field prepares you to become professional, caring, compassionate, skilled and competent nurse, who prioritises patient needs and delivers individualised nursing care to achieve the best health outcomes.
The course blends wide-ranging clinical placements* with research based theory and supported clinical skills training featuring virtual technologies, including a family of clinical manikins, which enable you to practise skills in a supported environment.
Children's nursing care extends from birth to the age of 18, and sometimes older where the child is living with a complex medical health need or disability.
Children’s nurses are taught to recognise the healthy and the ill or injured child. They deliver expert care for children of all abilities and uphold the rights of the child to be kept safe and secure, free from harm in all clinical settings. They work with the children themselves, their families and multiagency teams to build trust and to provide the highest quality care and patient experience for the baby, child or young person.
Effective communication skills are key to the child being listened to and understood. Children may have speech and language needs, or difficulties with learning and understanding, and may be unable to speak or communicate their needs. Children’s nurses are also taught how to work closely with family members and carers to reduce the impact of being ill, or in hospital, and who often experience difficult or stressful circumstances.
In addition to communication skills, you will be taught a range of other essential skills on this degree. Monitoring new-born babies to ensure that they are safely cared for, for example, or organising blood tests for a toddler diagnosed with diabetes. You will learn to apply wound dressings to an injured child, or reassure a teenager who has received difficult news and a worrying diagnosis.
Spending half of your time on placement, designated placement supervisors and assessors will support you to develop your clinical knowledge and skills. You are encouraged to reflect on what you have learned in clinical practice with enthusiastic and experienced staff, who have wide experience across clinical specialisms and have worked in a range of clinical settings. You will also hear about topical issues, children’s rights and legislation from current practitioners, who will share, for example, the impact of stigma around ethnicity, mental health or disabilities.
Clinical placements* across Wales are designed (subject to availability) to reflect the diversity of the hospital and community settings in which children’s nursing takes place. Children’s nurses may work in general paediatric wards, specialist paediatric hospitals like Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool, special care baby units, children’s outpatient departments, Minor Injuries units, hospice settings and as part of community general and specialist teams caring for children and their families in their own homes.
From the outset, clinical skills training builds the skills required to become a professional registered nurse. Our simulation-based training equipment, using VR and lifelike manikins, lets you safely examine ‘patients’ and interact in real-time to clinical situations based on real-life examples. This prepares you for the realities of working and responding to such situations, both on placement and future practice.
*Please note that in order to achieve the necessary diversity of placement experience to meet the requirements for clinical competency, you will need to travel to placements across Wales.
Nursing and Midwifery Council registration
To work in the UK as a nurse, you must be registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). To do this, you first need to study an NMC-recognised degree programme, which leads to a specific degree qualification for your chosen field (adult, child, mental health or learning disability nursing).
Bangor University’s adult nursing degrees are developed and delivered with NHS partners and adhere to the NMC education standards. On graduation, you’ll be eligible to register with the NMC as a children’s nurse. As you progress through your career, with further training, you could go on to specialise in roles such as health visiting, neo-natal nursing or school nursing.
Funding support for nursing students
Considerable financial support is available if you are considered a home student* for tuition fees (someone already living within the UK) and can commit to working in Wales for two years on graduation. You could get your tuition fees covered in full through the NHS Wales bursary scheme and claim for a £1,000 bursary contribution to living costs. A wide range of additional support, subject to eligibility, is also available for childcare, parent learners, disabled students and more.
Furthermore, as part of the Welsh Government’s commitment to develop a bilingual workforce, additional financial incentives are available if you study part of your course in Welsh. We will support you to access Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol Scholarships which could award you up to £1,000 for each year of your study, depending on how many credits you study in Welsh.
*Please note that as this course is funded by NHS Wales, we are unable to accept applications from international students.
Admission Requirements
96+
3 Years
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
9,790 GBP
International
21,000 GBP
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