BSc (Hons) in Nursing (Children's and General Integrated)

University College Cork

The Children’s and General Nursing course will provide you with excellent opportunities to develop knowledge and skills relevant to children’s and general nursing practice, including independent and critical thinking and problem-solving. It will enable you to ensure that the nursing care you deliver is up-to-date and based on the best current evidence. On completion of the BSc (Hons) in Children’s and General Nursing, you can apply to register as both a children’s and a general nurse to the Nursing & Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI). This four-and-a-half-year full-time degree course is offered in partnership with health service providers (HSPs) from both the public and private healthcare sectors. Each student is linked with one of these HSPs for the duration of their course. With an honours BSc in Children’s and General Nursing, you will be ready to start work as a qualified children’s or general nurse in a variety of clinical settings immediately after graduation. The broad aim of the course is to promote your personal, intellectual and professional development to meet the role dimensions of a qualified practitioner of children’s and general nursing. Theory modules are in nursing and biological and social science, some core (shared with other nursing/midwifery branches), and some discipline-specific (children’s and general nursing students only).