About

Our dynamic and Nursing and Midwifery Council‑accredited curriculum ensures you will qualify with knowledge and skills to deliver safe and effective care, which is responsive to the changing climate in children and young people’s nursing.

Overview

Our dynamic and NMC-accredited curriculum ensures you will qualify with knowledge and skills to deliver safe and effective care, which is responsive to the changing climate in children and young people’s nursing. 

It will develop your understanding of contemporary issues in children’s nursing and the importance of a family-centred approach to assess, plan, implement and evaluate safe and effective care.

Children’s nurses play an integral role in acute and community healthcare settings. As such, we work closely with our practice partners to offer a breadth and depth of placements throughout the programme. You can explore opportunities in specialised areas, such as Primary Care, palliative care, Teenage Cancer Trust Unit, neonatal units, children’s intensive care, and at one of the world's busiest ECMO centres with one of the only remaining Diana Children's Nursing Teams in the UK. 

Placements are typically provided across the East Midlands, in Leicester, Leicestershire and Rutland and sometimes in surrounding counties. In your placement, you will work alongside practice supervisors and practice assessors to learn the practical application of nursing relevant to your chosen field.  

This course is structured through Inter-Professional (IP) learning. Allowing you to collaborate with other allied healthcare students and professionals and gain a wider understand of issues and debates in the sector. 

We encourage you to challenge yourself, completing a variety of assessments to demonstrate theoretical knowledge and practical skills. You will develop expert communication skills, an understanding of cognitive development and how this influence both childhood perception of illness and care delivery. During the course, students also have access to updated facilities, utilising simulation suites, Virtual Reality technology, and LearningSpace software.

You will share learning opportunities with students from the other fields of nursing practice but an also engage in field of practice specific learning opportunities throughout the programme, to ensure that you develop your identity, knowledge and skills within the child nursing field of practice.

For further details please contact:

Sam Humphrey

Programme Leader BSc Nursing (hons) with NMC registration

[email protected]

Key Features

4,000 work placement opportunities: Our faculty of Health and Life Sciences courses offer more than 4,000 work placements to students, giving you real industry experience.
Authentic facilities: Study in our newly renovated facilities which comprise of simulated clinical settings and the latest teaching technology allowing you to practice your nursing skills in a safe and supportive environment.
Become career ready: Our strong links with local NHS trusts, private healthcare providers and charity organisations allow our you to gain practical experience in a range of placement settings throughout all three years of the course.
Graduate destinations: Recent graduates have secured roles in paediatric nursing and specialised child healthcare - making an impact at leading NHS organisations including Birmingham Women’s and Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, and Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Global experience: You can gain valuable international experience as part of their studies through our DMU Global programme.

Requirements

Entry Requirements

Entry requirements

Typical offer

UCAS points:

112

we do not accept UCAS points achieved through music exams

A Level:

BBC

from two or more A levels, including at least two subjects at C or above. We do not accept an A Level in General Studies in your top three grades.

BTEC Extended Diploma:

DMM

normally in Health and Social Care or Applied Science

Contextual Offer:

DMU operates a generous contextual offer for students from underrepresented backgrounds in Higher Education.

This is a minimum of one to two grade reduction from our typical offer Please note, you will still need to meet your subject specific requirement(s) and full details including eligibility criteria can be found at dmu.ac.uk/contextual

T Levels:

Merit in Health overall

Access to HE:

Pass in Access to HE in either Nursing and Midwifery, Science, or Health Professions with credits totalling a minimum of 112 UCAS Tariff points.

The access course must have a minimum of 12 science credits (biology, chemistry or physics). If not candidates must have GCSE Science at grade C/4 or above.

GCSE English and Maths or functional skills level 2 qualifications in English and Maths are required.

International Baccalaureate (IB):

26+

GCSEs:

5 x GCSEs at grade 4/C or above including English, Maths and Science. Level 2 Functional Skills in Maths and English are accepted.

English language requirements

If English is not your first language, an IELTS score of 7.0 overall and 7.0 in all components except writing which should be 6.5 or higher is required.

English language tuition, delivered by our British Council accredited Centre for English Language Learning (CELL), is available both before and during the course.

Additional application stages

Interview required: Yes

Interviews will take place online via Microsoft Teams. To find out more about interviewing for a course please visit our interview advice page.

Work experience required? Yes

Applicants are required to demonstrate relevant work experience or transferable skills within their interview. This would normally include experience from formal or informal employment, school or college work placements, voluntary work and other relevant life experiences.

Non-academic requirements

Self-Declaration Form clearance: Yes

Enhanced DBS disclosure clearance: Yes

As part of your application process, you will be required to submit an enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) application before starting the course.

For overseas applicants, you will also need to submit a criminal records certificate from your home country.

Further details will provided by our Admissions team after you receive an offer to study with us.

Occupational Health clearance: Yes

Additional information:

Availability: This course has a limited number of places so that we can ensure a good quality placement experience. In exceptional circumstances this may result in the course becoming full before you have completed the admissions process. In this situation we will offer you the opportunity to be considered for a place on an alternative course.

You must meet and fulfil all non-academic requirements before 17 July 2026. Failure to meet this deadline may result in your offer being withdrawn.

Mature applicants need academic attainment normally no more than five years of joining the course.

Career

Graduate careers

Upon successfully completing the course, nursing graduates are eligible to apply for NMC registration and can apply to work in a variety of roles throughout the NHS, charitable and private healthcare sectors. Registered nurses can start on a salary of £29,970 (NHS nurse band 5 pay scale – correct as of May 2025).

As a registered children’s nurse you will be able to work across a number of areas of your choosing, from children’s intensive care units, to acute ward based services such as medical, surgical or orthopaedic areas. Or you may consider career pathways involving more community-based work such as health visiting or school nursing or even caring for children with acute and ongoing care managed in the home environment. Beyond this and post qualification, nurses can go on to become specialist children’s nurses, paediatric ward managers or advanced nurse practitioners. Upon successfully completing the course nursing graduates are eligible to apply for NMC registration and can apply to work in a variety of roles throughout the NHS, charitable and private healthcare sectors.

Once qualified, our postgraduate study opportunities can further enhance your knowledge and skills, including Post Registration Education, professional doctorates and master’s degrees such as Professional Clinical Practice MSc/PG Cert/PG Dip.

Fee Information

Tuition Fee

22,988 / per year

Child Nursing with NMC registration ,BSc (Hons)