About This Course

Please note: this course starts in September 2025.

Children and young peoples (CYP) nurses care for all ages, from new born to adolescent, with a range of physical, emotional and mental health needs. CYP nurses work closely with family members and carers to reduce the impact of being ill or in hospital. This exciting Children's Nursing BN (Distance Learning) programme will provide you with the knowledge and skills to successfully graduate as a registered childrens nurse, and you will undertake practice placements in community and hospital settings with our partner organisations within Wales, with experiences in a range of CYP health care related areas. You will access placements across all the three parts of your course and experience a range of areas across Wales such as hospitals, special care baby units, hospices, mental health services, community childrens nursing teams and specialised paediatric intensive care units.

Registered nurses learning is supported throughout their careers through, initially preceptorship that offers the structured support needed to successfully transition your knowledge into everyday practice, and through continuous professional development.

As a childrens nurse you will care for children across the age spectrum and with a wide variety of needs. You will work in partnership with family members and carers to reduce the impact of being ill or in hospital and providing comfort and reassurances to patients and their parents or careers in difficult or stressful circumstances. The role is highly rewarding and can also be challenging in todays fast changing health care environment. Working in collaboration with other healthcare professionals, childrens nurses work in a variety of settings that follow a patients journey away from home, close to home or in the home giving you real variety in your career.

The role of the childrens nurse is varied and includes health promotion and preventative health programmes, investigations, diagnosis and treatment (medical and surgical), emotional and mental health support and many other interventions and therapies. Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS), practice nurses, health visitors and school nurses are some of the healthcare personnel who work with children, young people and their families in the primary care setting.

The Children's Nursing BN (Distance Learning) degree will prepare you to become a CYP nurse who is able to demonstrate critical thinking skills in relation to complex healthcare issues and the health and wellbeing of children, young people and their families. It will allow your compassion to thrive within an evidence-based approach and it will enable you to make a genuine impact on the health and wellbeing of babies, children, young people and their families.