BSc (Hons) Children and Young People's Nursing
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Key Details
- Award
- Degree of Bachelor of Science
- UCAS Course Code
- B730
- Typical Offer
- BBB
- Contextual Offer
- BCC
- Course Length
- 3 years
- Course Start Date
- September 2026
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Why you should choose us
Course Overview
Join Us in Making a Difference: Become a Children and Young People’s Nurse
Are you a motivated individual dedicated to making a positive impact on the lives of children and young people? As a Children and Young People’s nurse, you’ll have the incredible opportunity to learn and excel in an important and highly valued area of nursing through supporting the health and wellbeing of individuals, and their families, from newborn infants to adults
Our BSc Nursing Degree promotes collaboration with a range of healthcare professional students, enabling a rich understanding of diverse cultural and educational perspectives. This approach will help you build the adaptable and team-focused mindset essential for modern nursing practice and a successful nursing career. At the UEA we aim to develop not only future nurses but future leaders and decision makers within healthcare.
You’ll gain in depth knowledge and understanding of child development, anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and nursing care. You’ll explore how physical, social and psychological influences can impact health outcomes. Developing key skills to support and empower children, young people and their families to foster healthy behaviours contributing to positive health and well-being into young adulthood and across the life course.
The Children and Young People's Nursing course is delivered by nurse academics with clinical expertise in children's & young people's emergency care, acute and high dependency nursing, palliative care, pain management, community nursing, safeguarding, adolescent health, neonatal nursing and advanced nursing practice. Our supportive team will coach you to become a caring, empathic and compassionate nursing professional.
At UEA, you’ll benefit from simulation-based learning in modern skills environments, diverse placements across healthcare settings, and an inclusive, supportive learning culture that encourages collaboration, ambition, and success.
As a graduate of our BSc Children and Young People's Nursing degree, you’ll be prepared to meet the diverse developmental needs of children and young people with a variety of clinical conditions and complex health challenges. Our degree, rooted in the NHS Constitution and approved by Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) offers evidence-based education and varied placement opportunities to ensure you’re ready for a rewarding career in nursing.
The UEA Nursing Excellence Framework
At UEA, we are committed to developing nurses who excel in every aspect of their profession through our core values of: Collaboration, Ambition, Respect, and Empowerment (CARE).
Our Nursing Excellence Framework shapes reflective, evidence-based, and values-driven nurses- ready to make a real impact in healthcare.
Why Choose UEA Nursing?
At UEA, we believe in equipping nurses with the tools to transform lives and shape the future of healthcare. Our simulation-based learning, dynamic practice placements, and inclusive educational environment ensure that every graduate achieves their full potential.
UEA Nurses Lead the Way—Empowered, Skilled, Inspired.
Ready to start your journey?
Accreditations
This programme is validated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). All students must complete an annual declaration that they’re of Good Health and Character to meet the NMC requirements to continue on the programme.
Study and Modules
Structure
In your first year you'll focus on professionalism in nursing, enabling you to deliver evidence-based, safe, effective, person- and family-centred care. You’ll learn about specific topics such as legal and ethical issues, professional values, professional relationships, boundaries and academic skill development.
Alongside this, you’ll take a life course approach in your studies, allowing you to learn about the prevention of illness and promotion of good health at the individual, family and population level.
Throughout, you’ll learn theory and practical skills in preparation for registration with the NMC. You’ll receive a variety of both core and field-specific instruction, helping you to develop professional values in both practical environment and classroom simulations. Practical activities will include basic life support, physiological observations and recognising unwell patients.
Compulsory Modules
Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
Our degree course uses various ways of learning to connect the theory and practice of nursing. During your studies, you'll get better at learning on your own and with others, such as other healthcare teams. In classes, you'll have small-group sessions, lectures (both in person and online), and study by yourself. In your practical placements, you'll learn by doing, working alongside registered nurses and other team members. These placements are set up to match the usual work of a qualified nurse.
Assessment
You’ll be assessed with a variety of methods, carefully formulated to show your ability to connect theory and practice.
Assessments you’ll encounter during your first year include written assignments, presentations and posters.
Structure
In year two, you'll learn how to apply life and social sciences to contemporary nursing practice. We’ll provide you with the knowledge and skills you need to assess, plan, deliver and evaluate safe and effective care across different settings, connecting theory and practice.
You’ll delve into a more complex understanding of both core concepts and specialisation areas with an emphasis on professional values. Practical activities include cardio-respiratory assessment, medicines management and head injury assessment.
Compulsory Modules
Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
You'll have access to educational resources like presentations, workbooks, posters, virtual classrooms and other online learning resources. You’ll also be able to learn firsthand from folks who've been through healthcare services.
During your practical placements, you'll learn with the help of registered nurses, other healthcare team members, and people who use healthcare services. What you learn in theory will help you out in practice, so you'll be able to provide safe and effective nursing care.
Assessment
You’ll be challenged in your second year by more practice-based assessments including examinations, case studies and written assignments.
Structure
Your final year will introduce you to complexities and innovations in nursing practice. You’ll build on your existing knowledge and experience to develop higher academic skills, independent learning and a creative and ambitious reflective practice. You’ll learn advanced care, leadership and management skills and practice service improvement, preparing you for your transition into the role of registered nurse.
You’ll be able to dive deep into a specific area of nursing, and will continue to build on both core and field-specific concepts with increasing complexity. You’ll focus on professional values in both practice placements and simulation sessions in school. We also run a simulated critical incident day, which will allow you to demonstrate your leadership and clinical assessment skills.
Furthermore, you’ll have the unique opportunity to take on a professional development placement during your final year. Our expanding portfolio offers a range of local and international placement options, providing diverse and enriching experiences that contribute to your professional growth and development.
In addition, you’ll engage in Interprofessional Learning activities exploring collaboration and teamworking with other healthcare students across the faculty, an essential skill for effective person and family-centred care.
Compulsory Modules
Optional A Modules
(Credits: 20)Whilst the University will make every effort to offer the modules listed, changes may sometimes be made arising from the annual monitoring, review and update of modules. Where this activity leads to significant (but not minor) changes to programmes and their constituent modules, the University will endeavour to consult with students and others. It is also possible that the University may not be able to offer a module for reasons outside of its control, such as the illness of a member of staff. In some cases optional modules can have limited places available and so you may be asked to make additional module choices in the event you do not gain a place on your first choice. Where this is the case, the University will inform students.
Teaching and Learning
You'll closely engage with children, young individuals, and their families and caregivers, fostering the confidence necessary to embark on your career as a Children and Young People’s Nurse upon graduation.
You'll be encouraged to explore and critically engage with a diverse range of sources to enhance your learning. Access to various resources will support your learning journey and facilitate the development of effective independent study skills and a commitment to lifelong learning.
Upon completion of your studies, you'll have compiled an individual learning profile, demonstrating your fulfillment of the requirements for professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
Assessment
In your final year, you’ll undertake a project demonstrating your profound grasp of the interplay between nursing theory and its practical application. Alongside this, you’ll prepare a poster and a brief explanation concerning your chosen option module. Additionally, you’ll maintain an audio diary to document your professional development and learning journey.
Employability
After the Course
As a UEA Children and Young People’s Nursing graduate, you’ll be a highly sought-after healthcare professional. On graduation and subsequent registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), you’ll be equipped to start your career in a series of demanding, yet rewarding, environments including children’s wards and adolescent units, neonatal intensive care units, specialist nursing roles, emergency care, children’s community nursing teams, school and education settings, and many more. No matter what you do after graduation, you’ll enter the workforce with all of the professional, practical and personal skills you need for a great career.
Careers
Examples of careers that you could enter include:
- UK NHS and private healthcare providers
- International Nursing
- Nursing Research
- Practice Education
- Specialist and Advanced Practice
- Schools and Higher Education Institutes
Discover more on our Careers webpages.
Entry Requirements
- This course is open to
UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.
We welcome and value a wide range of qualifications, and we recognise that some students might take a mixture of different qualifications. We have listed typical examples that we accept for entry.
You should hold or be working towards the specified English and Mathematics requirements and one of the examples of typical entry qualifications listed below. If your qualifications aren’t listed, or if you are taking a combination of qualifications that isn’t specified, please contact Admissions.
- English and Mathematics
All applicants must hold or be working towards GCSEs in English Language and Mathematics at minimum grade 4 or grade C.
In place of Mathematics GCSE we can also consider:
- Functional Skills Level 2 Mathematics
- Essential Skills Wales L2 Application of Number
- Essential Skills Northern Ireland L2 Application of Number
We accept a wide range of English Language qualifications, please see our English Language equivalencies page.
- Contextual Offers
UEA are committed to ensuring that Higher Education is accessible to all, regardless of their background or experiences. One of the ways we do this is through our contextual admissions schemes.
- Typical UK Entry Requirements
A levels
BBB.
Contextual offer: BCC.
Not accepted: Critical Thinking and General Studies.
BTEC
Level 3 Extended Diploma: DDM.
Contextual offer: DMM.
See BTEC / OCR Cambridge Technical Level 3 section below for further information on accepted subjects.
See BTEC / OCR Cambridge Technical Level 3 section below for further information on accepted subjects and combinations.
Access to HE Diploma
Access to Health, Care or Science Pathway. Pass Access to HE Diploma with Merit in 45 credits at Level 3.
Contextual offer: Pass the Access to HE Diploma with Merit in 30 credits at Level 3 and Pass in 15 credits at Level 3.
T levels
Obtain an overall Merit. Accepted subjects: Health, Healthcare or Science.
- Further Examples of Typical Entry Requirements
- Non-Academic Entry Requirements
Offers will be made to applicants after completion of successful interviews and will be subject to a satisfactory occupational health check (including evidence of appropriate immunisations), an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and two satisfactory references. We will let you know what you need to do (and when) to meet these conditions if you are successful in gaining an offer.
If you have previously studied at degree level in a health based subject, we will want to see that you have passed all of the study that you have undertaken. We’ll be unable to consider you for this course if you’ve obtained an academic fail from a previous health based degree programme, including where an exit award has been achieved.
- Interviews
The strongest applicants will be invited to interview. Please note that meeting (or being predicted to meet) the minimum academic entry requirements will not guarantee that you will be selected for interview.
Interview invitations will be sent by email. Please keep a close eye on all emails from UEA after you submit your UCAS application. For more information on the application process and what to expect at each step, take a look at our handy Applying to HSC infographic, which explains the application journey from start to finish.
- Placements
During the course, no less than 50% of your time will be spent on practice placement. This might be in a variety of settings that include hospitals, community services, general practice, social services and voluntary or private organisations. Placement allocation occurs throughout the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire.
As this course includes patient facing placements in health or social care settings, and these are a mandatory component of the course, you will need to comply with the placement vaccination policy. Failure to meet the placement vaccination policy may prevent you from joining the course or may lead to your withdrawal from the course in the future. Future employment may also be subject to this condition.
- Deferred Entry
We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year. We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry on your UCAS application.
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all undergraduate applicants.
- Progression
Once enrolled onto a course at UEA, your progression and continuation (which may include eligibility for study abroad, overseas experience, placement or year in industry opportunities) is contingent on meeting the assessment requirements which are relevant to the course on which you are enrolled.
- Recent Study
We would prefer you to be able to demonstrate evidence of recent academic study within 5 years of the start of the course. If your last qualification will have been completed more than 5 years ago by the time the course starts, please contact Admissions.
- Age on Entry
Applicants for this course need to be aged 18 or over by 31 December 2026. This is owing to the integrated nature of placements within the first year of the course and safeguarding implications. In view of this, applicants who will not be 18 years old or over by this date, should consider applying for deferred entry.
- This course is open to
UK and International fee-paying students. Choose UK or International above to see relevant information. The entry point is in September each year.
We welcome and value a wide range of qualifications, and we recognise that some students might take a mixture of different qualifications. We have listed typical examples that we accept for entry.
You should hold or be working towards the specified English and Mathematics requirements and one of the examples of typical entry qualifications listed below. If your qualifications aren’t listed, or if you are taking a combination of qualifications that isn’t specified, please contact Admissions.
- English and Mathematics
All applicants must hold or be working towards GCSEs in English Language and Mathematics at minimum grade 4 or grade C.
In place of Mathematics GCSE we can also consider:
- Functional Skills Level 2 Mathematics
- Essential Skills Wales L2 Application of Number
- Essential Skills Northern Ireland L2 Application of Number
We accept a wide range of English Language qualifications, please see our English Language equivalencies page.
- Typical International Entry Requirements
A levels
BBB.
Not accepted: Critical Thinking and General Studies.
International Baccalaureate
31 points overall.
We accept many international qualifications for entry to this course. For specific details about your country, view our information for International Students.
- UEA International Study Centre
If you do not meet the academic and/or English language requirements for direct entry our partner, UEA International Study Centre offers progression on to this undergraduate degree upon successful completion of a preparation programme. Depending on your interests, and your qualifications you can take a variety of routes to this degree.
- English Foreign Language
Applications from students whose first language is not English are welcome. We require evidence of proficiency in English (including writing, speaking, listening and reading):
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IELTS: 7.0 overall (minimum 7.0 in reading, speaking and listening, with 6.5 in writing)
We also accept a number of other English language tests. Review our English Language Equivalencies for a list of example qualifications that we may accept to meet this requirement.
Test dates should be within two years of the course start date.
If you do not yet meet the English language requirements for this course, UEA International Study Centre offer a variety of English language programmes which are designed to help you develop the English skills necessary for successful undergraduate study:
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- Non-Academic Entry Requirements
Offers will be made to applicants after completion of successful interviews and will be subject to a satisfactory occupational health check (including evidence of appropriate immunisations), an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and two satisfactory references. We will let you know what you need to do (and when) to meet these conditions if you are successful in gaining an offer.
If you have previously studied at degree level in a health based subject, we will want to see that you have passed all of the study that you have undertaken. We’ll be unable to consider you for this course if you’ve obtained an academic fail from a previous health based degree programme, including where an exit award has been achieved.
- Interviews
The strongest applicants will be invited to interview. Please note that meeting (or being predicted to meet) the minimum academic entry requirements will not guarantee that you will be selected for interview.
Interview invitations will be sent by email. Please keep a close eye on all emails from UEA after you submit your UCAS application. For more information on the application process and what to expect at each step, take a look at our handy Applying to HSC infographic, which explains the application journey from start to finish.
- Placements
During the course, no less than 50% of your time will be spent on practice placement. This might be in a variety of settings that include hospitals, community services, general practice, social services and voluntary or private organisations. Placement allocation occurs throughout the counties of Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex and Cambridgeshire.
As this course includes patient facing placements in health or social care settings, and these are a mandatory component of the course, you will need to comply with the placement vaccination policy. Failure to meet the placement vaccination policy may prevent you from joining the course or may lead to your withdrawal from the course in the future. Future employment may also be subject to this condition.
- Deferred Entry
We welcome applications from students who have already taken or intend to take a gap year. We believe that a year between school and university can be of substantial benefit. You are advised to indicate your reason for wishing to defer entry on your UCAS application.
- Admissions Policy
Our Admissions Policy applies to the admissions of all undergraduate applicants.
- Progression
Once enrolled onto a course at UEA, your progression and continuation (which may include eligibility for study abroad, overseas experience, placement or year in industry opportunities) is contingent on meeting the assessment requirements which are relevant to the course on which you are enrolled.
- Recent Study
We would prefer you to be able to demonstrate evidence of recent academic study within 5 years of the start of the course. If your last qualification will have been completed more than 5 years ago by the time the course starts, please contact Admissions.
- Age on Entry
Applicants for this course need to be aged 18 or over by 31 December 2026. This is owing to the integrated nature of placements within the first year of the course and safeguarding implications. In view of this, applicants who will not be 18 years old or over by this date, should consider applying for deferred entry.
Fees and Funding
Tuition Fees
View our information for Tuition Fees.
Scholarships and Bursaries
We are committed to ensuring that costs do not act as a barrier to those aspiring to come to a world leading university and have developed a funding package to reward those with excellent qualifications and assist those from lower income backgrounds. View our range of Scholarships for eligibility, details of how to apply and closing dates.
Course Related Costs
You can find information regarding additional costs associated on our Fees and finance webpages.
How to Apply
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