Program Overview

Your Children and Young People’s Nursing degree will prepare you for essential nursing practice, working in partnership with children, young people and their families, providing care to those with acute, long-term and complex and disabling healthcare conditions and needs. This includes mental health care, as younger people living with long-term conditions are vulnerable to developing emotional disorders.

As well as learning how to care for children and young people who are unwell, you’ll also learn how to help them and those who care for them to foster healthy behaviours contributing to their health and wellbeing into adulthood.

Your programme includes partnership working with other healthcare students, gaining unique insight into other professional perspectives. This will enable you to cultivate the collaborative and adaptable approach that is essential to a successful nursing career.

Your studies will be split 50/50 between theory and practice, developing a robust understanding of the evidence base and skills required to provide optimum person and family centred care.  

You'll graduate able to meet the physical, cognitive, emotional and social developmental needs of children and young people, with a variety of clinical conditions and complex health challenges, in a wide range of healthcare settings.

With the NHS Constitution at its core, our Children and Young People’s Nursing degree provides rigorous training, fantastic placement opportunities and is fully approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

Highlights of Children and Young People's Nursing at UEA:

• Wide range of placements including hospitals, community, specialist care unit settings and complex needs schools
• Service-user contact throughout the programme
• Partnership working with other healthcare professional students
• In your final year, you'll participate in a five-week professional development placement. The practice area can be of your choice, with the option to apply for an international placement.  
• As a final year student, you'll choose one module to study from a range of options that will give you an insight into an area of nursing that interests you.
• Emphasis on enquiry-based learning to help you link theory to practice
• Excellent facilities, including anatomy suite, up to date simulation skills rooms and equipment
• Highly supportive culture
• Highly motivated students