Children's nursing is very popular and this course will enable you to become a registered children's nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
You'll learn to provide evidence-based care for children and young people (birth to age 18), working in partnership with their families and with other health and social care professionals, in hospital and community settings.
You'll study modules relevant to all fields of nursing, as well as those that focus on children's nursing, you'll also learn about child development, the healthy child as well as children and young people who are acutely ill, or require complex, high dependency, or palliative care.
Placement opportunities are at London's leading NHS hospitals such as Great Ormond Street, St George's, St Helier, Kingston, Royal Marsden, Chelsea, Westminster, and Croydon Hospitals, as well as in community settings.
You'll be taught by a dynamic teaching team who are nationally and internationally recognized - they have contributed to key textbooks and achieved awards for their excellence in learning and teaching.
Reasons to choose Kingston University
- Kingston is No.1 in London and No.5 in the UK overall for Children's Nursing (Guardian league tables 2023).
- Our award-winning simulation suite (Student Nursing Times Awards 2019) offers realistic environments in which to learn, including hospital wards and community settings with family role-players.
- 100% of students from this course are in employment or further study within six months of graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 2018/19).
