Nursing (Child) BSc (Hons)

**Please check the Sheffield Hallam University website for the latest information.**<br/><br/>**Home fee-paying students can access a non-repayable maintenance grant of at least £5,000 per year. You may also be eligible for additional financial support based on your circumstances. Learn more at www.shu.ac.uk/study-here/health-and-social-care/fees-and-funding**<br/><br/>**Course summary**<br/><br/><br/>- Understand health sciences in the practice setting.<br/><br/><br/>- Gain the skills and values to enter highly skilled employment.<br/><br/><br/>- Develop a strong professional identity and confidence.<br/><br/><br/>- Learn to develop and deliver person-centred care.<br/><br/><br/>- Collaborate with other professional groups in health and social care.<br/><br/><br/>This unique course offers you an exciting opportunity to become a fully qualified children’s nurse, transforming the lives of individuals and communities. Youll learn to understand the unique role of providing physical, emotional and psychological care and advice to children and their families or carers.<br/><br/>**How You Learn**<br/><br/>All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.<br/><br/>On this course you’ll learn from enthusiastic academic staff who have a variety of clinical expertise and experience. You’ll apply your theoretical study directly to your practice setting, using the knowledge, skills and attributes you’ve gained.<br/><br/>Nurses are an integral part of a multidisciplinary team. So in some modules, you’ll learn and collaborate with students from other health and social care courses. This approach will help you to deliver person centred-care – with an understanding of how other professionals contribute to the persons journey through health and social care services.<br/><br/>You learn through<br/><br/><br/>- practice-based learning (50%)<br/><br/><br/>- lectures<br/><br/><br/>- workshops<br/><br/><br/>- tutorials<br/><br/><br/>- projects and group work<br/><br/><br/>- presentations<br/><br/><br/>- simulation<br/><br/><br/>- independent learning<br/><br/><br/>- skills rehearsal<br/><br/><br/>- technology-enhanced learning<br/><br/><br/>**Applied learning**<br/><br/>**Work placements**<br/><br/>You’ll apply the theory you study to practice-based learning experiences. Here you’ll develop critical and ethical approaches to your practice – preparing you to become a life-long, competent professional. The experiences you’re provided with are compulsory to achieve the course’s practice-based learning outcomes.<br/><br/>These experiences will help you build your skills, confidence, creativity, resilience, integrity, and curiosity. They’ll take place in different practice-based learning environments – reflecting the range of ways services are currently delivered. This might include simulated learning and virtual placements, alongside real-world experience of services delivered face to face to service users. <br/><br/>We’ll ensure the practice-based learning element of your course complies with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) – which governs the child nursing profession. So by the end of your course, you’ll have the opportunity to show that you meet the requirements to register as a children’s nurse.<br/><br/>The university will ensure that the practice learning element of your course will be compliant with the requirements of the Professional and Statutory Regulatory Body (PSRB) governing your chosen profession. This is so that by the end of your course, you will have been provided with the opportunity to demonstrate attainment of the requirements to register as a professional with your chosen profession.