BSc (Hons) Community Specialist Practice (District Nursing) Top-Up - Full-time

Bachelor's degree

In Bolton

Price on request

Description

  • Type

    Bachelor's degree

  • Location

    Bolton

  • Duration

    1 Year

  • Start date

    Different dates available

If you want the chance to make a difference in community healthcare, apply for the University of Bolton’s full-time BSc (Hons) in Community Specialist Practice (District Nursing). Approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and developed in line with the NMC’s Standards of Specialist Education and Practice and the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI/QNIS) Voluntary Standards for District Nurse Education and Practice, this course aims to equip you with the knowledge, skills and attitudes necessary to develop and influence community nursing services.

Working in a multidisciplinary team, you’ll be supported to complete core content that covers the topics of public health, innovation in healthcare management and leadership, critical evaluation for evidence-based practice, the principles of district nursing and non-medical prescribing (V100), as well as take on an elective module that you’ll select in conjunction with your employer.

You’ll have the opportunity to explore policy and legal frameworks, learn more about collaborative and proactive working, and use self-direction and originality in tackling and solving problems. Course content is designed to be relevant to your current and future roles, and you’ll be expected to apply your knowledge in practice though clinical, educational and public health interventions that demonstrate the relevant skills and sensitivity.

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bolton (Greater Manchester)
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Deane Road, BL3 5AB

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

You’ll have the opportunity to develop skills of critical reflection and learn to adopt a rigorous approach to planning and evaluation of care and care programmes, as well as employing a range of clinical, educational and public health interventions in a skilled and sensitive manner. You’ll also be supported to undertake care and programme management and provide leadership within appropriate team situations. In addition you’ll be encouraged to examine factors that promote or inhibit effective collaborative working.

Furthermore, you’ll be guided to display the values required in modern healthcare, such as compassion, advocacy, good communication and teamwork skills, and respect for patients’ privacy, dignity and individuality.

This course provides training for community specialist practitioners in district nursing. On successful completion of the BSc (Hons), you’ll have your name recorded on part 1 of the NMC's professional register as a Specialist Practitioner (DN) and a nurse prescriber within the context of district nursing. Opportunities arising from this qualification include professional posts in community health care settings and supporting the management of out of hospital care.

After qualifying and gaining some experience, there are a variety of routes you could take as the next step in your career. You could lead a team and, with experience, you could progress to community sister/matron or work in community palliative care. Some nurses decide to go into management or clinical academic research.

On successful completion of the BSc (Hons) you’ll have the option to apply for the MSc Health and Social Care or MSc Leadership in Health and Social Care.

Alternative Career Options
Teaching and education
Public health
Health care management
Armed forces
Clinical research
Health promotion
Occupational health
Overseas aid and development
Prisons
Holiday companies
Charity sector
Medical communications
Medical writing
Counselling
Mental health

You’ll also need at least 120 credit points at Level HE4 and 120 credit points at Level HE5, or AP(E)L equivalent (see explanation below). For instance, you may have a Foundation Degree, HND or Diploma in Nursing.

You must also have one year's post-registration experience of professional practice.

You’ll be required to produce satisfactory professional and academic references, pass Occupational Health screening and a DBS.

Key Features:
This course is completed on a combined theory and practice basis, and your time will be divided equally between the University and the practice setting.
You’ll have the opportunity to work with colleagues from a range of specialist backgrounds for a multidisciplinary approach to learning.
The course curriculum is developed around the Standards for Specialist Education and Practice and the Standards for Prescribing as set out by the NMC.
We work in partnership with NHS England and with local NHS trusts.

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Subjects

  • IT
  • Nurse
  • Nurse training
  • IT Development
  • Skills and Training
  • Part Time
  • Public Health
  • Public
  • Healthcare
  • Evaluation
  • Full Time
  • Leadership
  • Innovation
  • University

Course programme

Modules

Modules listed below are a mixture of compulsory and optional. You may not have the opportunity to study all the modules as part of the course.

  • Critical Evaluation for Evidence Based Practice
  • Exploring Public Health
  • Community Nurse Prescribing (V100)
  • Professional Practice (District Nursing)
  • Innovation in Health Care Leadership and Management
  • Multidisciplinary End of Life Care
  • Contemporary Mental Health
  • Contemporary Approaches to Dementia Care
  • Clinical Examination Skills
  • Safeguarding Vulnerable Adults
Teaching, Learning And Assessment

Teaching staff on the BSc (Hons) Community Specialist Practice (District Nursing) course use blended approaches to learning that combine direct and online techniques. The aim of these combined methods is to extend your previous professional practice education so that you can develop, contribute to and improve the quality of community health nursing.

To reflect the NMC’s Standards for Specialist Education and Practice, this course splits theory and practice learning equally. During lectures, you’ll be introduced to the relevant theory of your field, which will be built on via seminar discussions, presentations, simulations delivered by tutors, group workshops and tutorials. In the practice setting, a programme of learning and experience will be developed by an appropriately qualified and experienced practitioner – a sign off practice teacher/sign off mentor – who will also responsible for assessing your competence.

You’ll also be expected to spend time using the virtual learning environment, Moodle, where you can utilise learning resources like podcasts and video presentations, and regularly engage in self-directed study like preparing for seminars and reading around your subject.

Assessment takes various forms, including essays, reports, portfolios, critical reflection, presentations and exams, including Objective Structured Clinical Examinations (OSCE). The assessment strategies used may differ depending on the module and its intended learning outcomes.

Disclaimer

The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up to date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.

BSc (Hons) Community Specialist Practice (District Nursing) Top-Up - Full-time

Price on request