Advanced Practice (Specialist Community Public Health Nursing/ Health Visiting/School Nursing)

King’s College London

Postgraduate

In London

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Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    London

This Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Practice is the professional qualification for nurses who wish to gain entry to part three of the NMC nursing register as a health visitor or school nurse. Places on this programme are sponsored centrally through service commissioners and in partnership with health visiting and school nursing service providers.
The course information sheet is a printable version of the information on this web page, which you can download here.

Benefits of the Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Practice include:
No.1 Nursing Faculty in the UK and 3rd in the world (2017 QS World University Rankings)
Completion of clinically-focused evidence-based core modules.
Access to lecturers who are active researchers in health visiting and school nursing.
Access to extracurricular seminars and lectures given by leaders in healthcare from around the world.
Located in the heart of London, across four of King's Thames-side campuses (Waterloo, Strand, St Thomas' and Guy's) and the Denmark Hill Campus in south London.

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Location

Start date

London
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Great Maze Pond, SE1 9RT

Start date

On request

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Subjects

  • Public Health
  • Access
  • School
  • Public
  • Healthcare
  • Health nursing
  • Nursing Health

Course programme

Year 1 Required Modules

  • Leadership in Public Health Nursing

  • Evidence Based Decision Making in Healthcare

  • Measurement and Evaluation for Healthcare Practice

  • Child Protection: Assessment and Intervention

  • SCPHN Professional Portfolio

  • Prescribing module (Health Visiting route)

  • An appropriate option module (School Nursing route)

Applicants with a PGDip SCPHN qualification who wish to complete the MSc by undertaking the dissertation module need to apply for the generic MSc Advance Practice course, where they seek credit exemption (APL) for their 120 PGDip SCPHN.

  • Evidence-based Decision Making In Healthcare
  • Measurement and Evaluation For Healthcare Practice
Optional Modules
  • Issues in the Conduct of Healthcare Research

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Advanced Practice (Specialist Community Public Health Nursing/ Health Visiting/School Nursing)

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