Your Children’s Nursing degree will prepare you for essential nursing practice, as well as specialist areas such as long-term conditions and complex and disabling healthcare issues. This includes conditions and challenges that are specific to young people. It also includes mental health care, as younger people living with long-term conditions are far more vulnerable to developing emotional disorders. Alongside this you’ll learn to work in close partnership with the families and carers of children in your care. As well as learning how to look after children who are unwell, you’ll also learn how to help foster healthy lifestyles in patients’ early years and adolescence, contributing to their health and wellbeing well into adulthood.Your course will feature a 50/50 balance between theory and practice. Throughout the course you’ll learn through first-hand practical experience. You’ll also work in collaboration with other healthcare students. This hands-on and collaborative approach is key to helping you achieve the best physical, emotional health and wellbeing outcomes. You will graduate able to meet the physical, emotional and social development needs of children and young people, with a variety of clinical conditions and complex health challenges, in a wide range of healthcare settings.**Highlights of Children's Nursing at UEA**- Wide range of placements including community, hospitals and specialist care units- Service-user contact from the very outset - Regular group work with other nursing, health and medical students- Personal mentor to guide you throughout- Emphasis on enquiry-based learning to helps you link theory to practice- Excellent facilities, including simulation skills laboratories- Chance to experience healthcare in another country with an elective placement- Highly supportive culture- Highly motivated students**Course Structure**On your Children’s Nursing degree you’ll complete two academic modules and clinical placements in each of your three years. In academic modules you’ll learn through small group teaching, lectures and self-directed study, scheduled between 9am and 7pm. In your clinical practice placements you’ll learn through hands on experience. These are designed to reflect the typical working patterns of a qualified nurse, and will include a minimum of 75 hours on night duty. You’ll have access to placements in a wide variety of settings. In each of these you’ll use and develop your skills and knowledge under professional supervision in a clinical environment. You’ll work closely with children, young people and their families and carers, gaining the confidence you need to begin your career as children’s nurse after graduation.**Disclaimer**Course details are subject to change. You should always confirm the details on the provider’s website: **www.uea.ac.uk**