BSc (Hons) Nursing (Children's) with Placement Year

If you're caring, compassionate and passionate about helping others, this degree can help you start a rewarding career.

This course offers a September intake at our Derby site with an additional March intake at our Chesterfield site.

• Join an undergraduate programme accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Council: when you graduate, you’ll be eligible to register and practise as a Children’s nurse
• You'll gain essential practical experience on a range of clinical placements in a range of Children’s settings including, acute inpatient, community, private and voluntary sector, and schools
• You'll learn from a highly experienced and enthusiastic teaching team who provide full support to help you achieve your ambitions
• The course will equip you with vital nursing skills and our use of clinical supervision throughout the course will enable you to develop resilience and reflective practice
• Our nursing programmes are approved to the NMC’s new Future nurse: Standards of Proficiency for registered nurses.

Financial support to help you succeed

Don’t let financial concerns get in the way of your ambitions. As an applicant for this course, you will be able to access a support package of tuition fee loans and support for your living costs.

You won’t have to pay any money upfront: tuition and living cost loans work just like a tax on your earnings rather than a commercial or payday loan. You will only start paying back the loans when you are earning above £27,295 per year and will pay 9% of any income above £27,295.

You can also secure grants – which do not have to be repaid – to cover childcare and the costs of travelling to your placement.

Find out more about health education funding.