Nursing with Registration as a Children's Nurse King's College London

Overview

To help you gain experience, you’ll experience placements in different settings, from specialist wards to settings like schools or hospices. The Nursing with Registration as a Children's Nurse program will also give you the chance to do an elective placement and develop specialist knowledge with optional modules in areas like neonatal nursing and global health.

Quick to adapt and confident making decisions. These are just two reasons why employers hire King's College London graduates. As you move into the final year of your degree, the focus will be on helping you move from student to newly registered nurse. You’ll leave us feeling ready to take on diverse challenges, whatever comes next.

Key benefits

• You will be studying at the #1 university for nursing in the world (2025 QS World University Rankings).
• Decide whether you take an elective placement in the UK or abroad during year 2
• Become part of a diverse healthcare community and connect with students studying everything from medicine to midwifery
• Develop specialist knowledge in areas such as child protection and care of neonates with our choice of optional modules
• Delivered by a supportive team of researchers and clinicians with a diverse range of experience and expertise in children’s health
• A training grant of £5,000 from the NHS Learning Support Fund (LSF) is available, as well as financial support for placement travel or accommodation.

Career prospects

Recent graduates have found employment within the following job roles and companies:

Nurses who graduate from King's are actively recruited by both national and international employers. Many are involved in innovative practices and others work as independent nurses. Many return for further graduate study in midwifery or women's health.