Children's Nursing

Kingston University
Undergraduate BSc (Hons) Full-time 3 Years Nursing

A-Level Entry

BBB - ABB

UCAS Points

120 - 136 points

Avg. Graduate Salary

£26,000

About this course

Reasons to choose Kingston

  • Kingston is No.1 in London for Children's Nursing (Guardian University Guide 2025).

  • We won two awards at the 2023 Student Nursing Times Awards, including Teaching Innovation of the Year for our simulated public health elective. This was part of our annual student nursing electives programme, which was also nominated for the Best Student Experience award, where students are supported to organise their own national or international placement of their choosing.

  • Our award-winning simulation suite (Student Nursing Times Awards 2019) offers realistic environments in which to learn, including hospital wards and community settings with family role- players.

  • 100 per cent of students from this course are in employment or further study within six months of graduating (HESA Graduate Outcomes 2018/19)

  • Our commitment to high quality teaching has been recognised with a Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF) Gold rating. The University has received an overall rating of Gold, as well as securing a Gold award in the framework's two new student experience and student outcomes categories.

    About this course Children's nursing is very popular and this course will enable you to become a registered children's nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

    You'll learn to provide evidence-based care for children and young people (birth to age 18), working in partnership with their families and with other health and social care professionals, in hospital and community settings.

    You'll study modules relevant to all fields of nursing, as well as those that focus on children's nursing, you'll also learn about child development, the healthy child as well as children and young people who are acutely ill, or require complex, high dependency or palliative care.

    Placement opportunities are at London's leading NHS hospitals such as Great Ormond Street, St George's, St Helier, Kingston, Royal Marsden, Chelsea and Westminster and Croydon Hospitals, as well as in community settings.

    You'll be taught by a dynamic teaching team who are nationally and internationally recognised - they have contributed to key text books and achieved awards for their excellence in learning and teaching.

    Throughout the course you will engage with service users, practising nurses and other healthcare professionals – in placements, classes and online learning.

  • Entry Requirements

    A-Level Grades BBB - ABB
    UCAS Tariff Points 120 - 136 points
    Scottish Higher BBBCC - BBBBB
    Scottish Advanced Higher CCC
    BTEC DDM

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

    2232 Registered community nurses
    2237 Other registered nursing professionals
    2235 Registered mental health nurses
    2236 Registered children's nurses
    2234 Registered nurse practitioners
    2233 Registered specialist nurses

    Course Details

    Qualification
    Bachelor of Science (with Honours) - BSc (Hons)
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    3 Years
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    London
    Scheme
    Undergraduate
    Subjects
    Nursing
    Avg. Graduate Salary
    £26,000