Overview

This programme at the University of Leeds prepares students to become forward-thinking child nurses with the competence and confidence to deliver high-quality, compassionate, and evidence-informed care. Developed alongside service users, carers, students, and practitioners, the course combines academic study with hands-on clinical practice to build the resilience and communication skills needed in a complex, ever-changing healthcare environment.

What You'll Learn

• Core clinical skills such as measuring vital signs, medication management, and enteral feeding methods

• How to search for, identify, and use evidence to underpin nursing practice

• Recognising and understanding health inequalities and their effect on access to services

• The relationship between mental and physical health, and the impact of pre-existing conditions

• Behaviour and development in children and young people

• Delivering care across a range of clinical environments, including medicine, surgery, community, and high dependency or critical care

• Working inclusively with children, young people, families, and other professionals involved in their care

• Opportunities to study abroad, developing transferable skills and intercultural awareness

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students will be able to think critically and deliver high-quality, compassionate, and evidence-informed care to children, young people, and their families. They will be able to apply essential clinical and communication skills across a range of healthcare settings, working effectively within multi-disciplinary and inter-professional teams. Students will also be equipped to recognise and respond to health inequalities, and to draw on research evidence to inform safe, person-centred nursing practice.