Practice Nursing BSc

There will be an increasing clinical service load in primary care with the trend to devolve clinical responsibility from secondary care. Practice nurses now are diverse in their management of health including Quality Outcome Framework (QOF) with many having acquired specialist skills and knowledge e.g. in long term conditions such as asthma and diabetes.

Further, Practice Nurses are often first point of contact in terms of public health promotion and intervention, signposting and identifying onset of conditions. This, in turn, with appropriate treatment, can lead to reduced admissions to specialist services. A graduate, or postgraduate, academic qualification in General Practice Nursing will enable you to fulfil your role as Practice Nurse.

All students must have an effective registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council
They should also possess 120 credits at levels 4 and 5 And have the ability to study successfully at degree level (level 6)
Students should demonstrate evidence of recent study (usually within the last 5 years)
Employed as a general practice nurse by the start of the programme
Students will be required to provide a current CRB/ DBS disclosure

Reasons to study Practice Nursing at DMU:

Flexible study options allow you to study at a level to suit your professional needs; with progression opportunities from undergraduate level to PG Cert
Our team of experienced academics are all specialist practice and community nurses, ensuring your learning is relevant to current practice and a wide range of issues and contemporary debates in the field
Benefit from direct input and visiting lecturers from experienced practitioners in the field; broadening your perspective of practice nursing regionally and nationally
Inter-professional learning develops your ability to work as part of a multi-professional team
DMU has achieved Gold, the highest ranking possible under the Teaching Excellence Framework (TEF), indicating the outstanding learning and teaching on offer at DMU. [Office for Students, 2017]