Learn to care for children and support families in a range of challenging situations. While you’re at King’s, you’ll work in different environments that give you the practical skills you’ll need every day as children’s nurse.
Your course will involve placements at some of London’s renowned hospitals and healthcare providers. And, to improve your professional skills, you’ll attend lectures, seminars, and practical lessons in a range of topics relevant to your work.
King’s is known for the quality of its research too. So cutting-edge thinking will inform everything you learn. We encourage you to take the lead in your own development, but we provide everything you need to excel. We support you throughout your time at King’s (and beyond). You’ll have a personal tutor assigned to you, we’ll visit you on placements, and there are plenty of support options elsewhere at the University.
Before beginning the course, you must have occupational health clearance and enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service checks completed.
Teaching style
Our teaching staff are experts in areas like neonatal, intensive care or palliative care. Their experience in research and clinical practice means our course is a true reflection of what it’s like working with children and their families across the world. Guest lecturers give you the chance to discover an even wider perspective of the field.
Half your time will involve working at your placement, learning from real life experience. The other half will be spent in lectures, seminars, and other more theoretical sessions. But for us, theory doesn’t just mean sitting at a desk. Our teaching involves a huge range of advanced tools, like our high fidelity mannequins that can talk, move – even cry.
Course details
During your placements you’ll be working regular shifts, just like you would as a qualified nurse. You can also choose to travel for your elective placements. It could take you anywhere in the world – or you can stay in London and let the world come to you.
The curriculum for this course involves set modules. These modules will be more clinically-focussed as you progress, meaning you’ll learn more and more skills you can apply in real care settings. In your third year, you will have a dissertation which allows you to take a more in-depth look at an area that interests you.
Assessment
We want to build your confidence in what you know and what you can do.
Our assessments will help you improve your skills throughout your course. We’ll assess your work with both traditional exams as well as coursework and more practical projects. Different modules will have different assessments appropriate to each topic.
Location(s):
Teaching happens at King’s campuses across London. Most sessions will be at:
Your placements will be in local NHS trusts and other organisations. Our placements team will make sure you get a rounded nursing experience. They’ll take your needs into account to be as accommodating as possible. For more information about our partners please visit http://www.kcl.ac.uk/nursing/partners
Special notes
Nurses are involved in caring for vulnerable members of society and there is a necessity for all nursing students to have an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service check. Prior to commencing the programme you must also have occupational health clearance.
Meet our students
Meet some of our pre-registration nursing students.
Our teaching staff are experts in areas like neonatal, intensive care or palliative care. Their experience in research and clinical practice means our course is a true reflection of what it’s like working with children and their families across the world. Guest lecturers give you the chance to discover an even wider perspective of the field.
Half your time will involve working at your placement, learning from real life experience. The other half will be spent in lectures, seminars, and other more theoretical sessions. But for us, theory doesn’t just mean sitting at a desk. Our teaching involves a huge range of advanced tools, like our high fidelity mannequins that can talk, move – even cry.