MSc Children and Young People’s Nursing

About the Course

This course has been designed and developed with practice partners, students, and service users and carers, who are also involved in its delivery and evaluation.

While studying Children and Young People's nursing, you will work towards the achievement of registered nurse status, whilst pursuing a postgraduate course of study in a supported learning environment, where the safety of people is of primary consideration.

On completion of the course you will have met the NMC (2018) Future nurse: Standards of proficiency for registered nurses. Success in the course provides eligibility for you to apply for registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) as a Registered Children’s Nurse.

Throughout this course, emphasis is placed upon enabling you to develop the knowledge, skills, attitudes and behaviours required of a Children’s Nurse who can meet the demands of the role with confidence.

The learning, teaching and assessment strategy has the aim of transforming students into independent learners who take responsibility for their learning in a way that is reasonable for the student and does not compromise public safety. In designing the learning and teaching strategy, the team identified five guiding principles to underpin a course that is designed to develop the knowledge and behaviours of aspiring registered nurses. These principles are to ensure that teaching and learning activities: have immediate professional relevance; foster active learning; are learner-centred in approach and draw on expertise-by-experience. Examples of how this is realised throughout the course are provided.