Master of Science [M.Sc] [Children's Nursing (Pre-registration)] From Oxford Brookes University

Our master's degree gives you the chance to undertake an Children's Nursing course leading to registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The PG Cert second registration course offers qualified nurses (adult, mental health or learning disability) the opportunity to gain registration as a registered children's nurse whilst also receiving an academic award. Both courses are available part-time and full-time on the Oxford and Swindon campuses.

If you have a bachelor's degree, this three-year pre-registration Master's degree gives you theÊchance to undertake a ChildrenÕs Nursing course leading to registration with the Nursing andÊMidwifery Council. The course is available part-time and full-time on the Oxford campus.

Why choose this course?

• Our programme prepares you to be a confident, professional practitioner able to care for children and families within an ever changing health and social care environment.ÊWe offer a wide variety of practice experiences throughout Oxfordshire, in hospital and community settings with children and young people with many differing health care needs and their families.
• We provide a very friendly and supportive environment in which to learn. We offer excellent teaching facilities, including dedicated space for simulated learning within clinical skills suites.Ê
• Our teaching is strengthened by the involvement of service users and carers and expert lecturers from clinical practice.ÊAt Brookes, we teach the skills for evidence-based practice and encourage our students to develop a problem-solving approach to clinical practise. We instil you with confidence to enable you to use your own clinical and professional judgement to influence practice.
• We have an excellent track record of high levels of student satisfaction and high graduate employability.
• We provide you with a range of support services, such as academic advisors, who support your academic development, and student support coordinators who provide a drop-in service to help answer any queries you may have about any aspect of student life, covering both academic and personal welfare.
• Information technology plays an increasingly important role in health care courses and an extensive range of learning resources can be accessed through ÔBrookes VirtualÕ - an online repository of lectures, handouts, information and learning exercises
• We offer full-time, part-time or mixed mode patterns of study.

How this course helps you develop

The ChildrenÕs Nursing MSc course at Brookes has an excellent track record of employability (100% of our students are at work within two months of finishing the course; Unistats 2015).ÊRegistered ChildrenÕs Nurses have the opportunity, post-qualification, to develop their careers in a range of settings, such as in hospital wards (providing children with medical or surgical care), paediatric intensive care units, neonatal intensive care units, and in a range of community settings such as in health visiting teams and as school nurses. You can progress in your career in many areas including in advanced clinical practice, research, nurse education and/or management.Ê

The newly established Oxford Institute of Nursing and Allied Health Research (OxINAHR), can provide interested nursing graduates with a structured research career pathway opportunity, developed in partnership with local NHS partners.

We also offer a range of Continuing Professional Development (CPD) / Learning Beyond Registration (LBR) opportunities for qualified nurses if you wish to undertake further study at post-qualifying and postgraduate level.

Careers

Graduates from this course contribute significantly to high-quality client care, the continued development of patient-centred care/therapy, and theory-practice integration.