Public Health (Specialist Community Public Health Nursing) - Postgraduate Diploma

Postgraduate

In Bristol

£ 4,200 + VAT

Description

  • Type

    Postgraduate

  • Location

    Bristol

  • Start date

    Different dates available

The course has been designed to produce knowledgeable and skilled public health practitioners who are able to work with various client groups across different settings within the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Professional Code of Conduct (2008). This knowledge and skill development will be reflected in your ability to demonstrate achievement of the NMC Standards of proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (2004). Ten key areas of public health practice and domains require a practitioner to search for health needs; stimulate an awareness of health needs; influence policies affecting health and facilitate health enhancing activities in different public health settings.
The course embraces a family/child/workplace centred public health role with individuals, families and populations, focusing on improving health and tackling health inequalities. The approach requires you to work within a dynamic socio-cultural and service provision context across traditional boundaries, networking and developing services in conjunction with service users, other professionals and voluntary workers. This involves the capacity to lead, assess, work collaboratively, evaluate public health provision, and accept responsibility and accountability for the safe, effective and efficient management of that provision.
This course is for people who wish to register on the third part of the NMC register as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse: Health Visitor, School Nurse, or Occupational Health Nurse. The course requires effective registration on Part 1 (Nursing) or Part 2 (Midwifery) of the NMC register.
The aim of the programme is to prepare specialist community public health nursing (SCPHN) students with the knowledge, skills and critical abilities to provide leadership and innovation in community health. The wider goals are to improve population health, in particular the health of children and families, and to prevent illness. SCPHNs graduating from the...

Facilities

Location

Start date

Bristol (Avon)
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Coldharbour Lane, BS16 1QY

Start date

Different dates availableEnrolment now open

About this course

Placements
Students will have secured a placement appropriate to their chosen SCPHN field via secondment or sponsorship from a health organisation.
Study facilities
The Department is superbly equipped with an extensive range of teaching and learning resources across four campuses.
The library on the Glenside Campus is one of the best health and social care libraries in England with a huge selection of books, journals and audio-visual materials including access to specialist health and social care packages.
The Interprofessional Simulation Suite provides excellent opportunities for...

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Subjects

  • Public
  • Public Health
  • Health nursing
  • Nurse
  • Nurse training
  • School
  • Evaluation
  • Teaching
  • Midwifery

Course programme

Content

During the course you will gain experience in a range of different settings and areas of professional practice through collaborative working and inter-professional learning covering the following areas:

  • In settings and with age groups that are central to the responsibilities for the defined area of practice, health visiting, school nursing or occupational health nursing.
  • Working with disadvantaged or vulnerable populations, health inequalities and factors that contribute to health and wellbeing.
  • Working with age groups considered as either important or that may be a potential area of responsibility even if not central to the areas of responsibility.
  • Completing 60 days of consolidated practice within your defined area of practice which will be completed over 12 weeks if on the full-time course or 24 weeks if on the part-time course.

The practice element of the course is divided into two parts, taught and consolidated.

The taught practice element includes 15 days alternative practice experience, where students get the opportunity to gain an insight and understanding of services provided in settings or with population groups that would not be central to their pathway.

A period of consolidation provides an opportunity for you to focus on your specific profession, building on the previous experiences developed through the course and in practice. This period allows time for prioritisation of workload, development of proficiency, and fitness for practice as a safe, accountable and effective practitioner.

The course is 50% theory to practice with designated time in the University as well as in practice with a co-ordinating Practice Teacher/Mentor.

Level 3 Module titles include:

  • Principles of Evidence Based Public Health
  • Public Health and Health Promotion
  • Professional Perspectives in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
  • Leadership and Enterprise
  • V100 Prescribing Practice
  • Promoting the Health of School-aged Children in the Community
  • Workplace, Health and Wellbeing

Optional modules include:

  • Working Therapeutically with Families
  • Sexual Health
  • Mental Health and Well-being of Children and Young People
  • Issues in Child Protection
  • Health and Wellbeing in the Workplace

Additional online modules available include:

  • Using Health Research
  • Building Community Capacity

The University continually enhances our offer by responding to feedback from our students and other stakeholders, ensuring the curriculum is kept up to date and our graduates are equipped with the knowledge and skills they need for the real world. This may result in changes to the course. If changes to your course are approved we will inform you.

Learning and Teaching

A range of teaching and learning methods are used including formal lectures, seminars, enquiry-based and on-line learning, project work, individual self-directed study and assignment preparation. Students are encouraged to draw on their own and colleagues' existing experience in the learning process.

For more details see our glossary of teaching and learning terms.

Study time

To facilitate learning in practice you will be allocated a practice teacher who is qualified in your chosen practice area, health visiting, school nursing, sexual health or occupational health.

Underpinning study themes include:

  • Critical reflection on practice and learning
  • Self-evaluation and professional development planning
  • Leading teams and managing change
  • Multi-disciplinary team working
  • Interprofessional and inter agency working
  • Need assessment, planning and evaluation of practice
  • Service development
  • Group working and teaching
  • Critical evaluation and utilisation of research in practice
  • Critical evaluation of policy and its implementation in practice

Computer skills are vital for your academic studies. At UWE computing is an integral part of your course - many lecturers make lecture notes and materials available online, and some modules will require you to use information technology (IT) to help you undertake and present your work. IT facilities are available on all campuses. At the main Frenchay Campus there is 24 hour access to computing facilities, and the Department offers help and support throughout your course. Prior to commencing your course you may find it helpful to familiarise yourself with some core IT skills:

  • Basic word processing
  • Storing and retrieving files
  • Communicating via email
  • Searching the web for information, e.g. online shopping, booking a holiday

There is also a range of information and resources that includes interactive exercises to support study skills on the Department of Health and Applied Social Sciences website.

Assessment

The assessment is a 2000 word reflective assignment based on a learning contract negotiated to individual needs. Practice will be undertaken to meet the NMC requirements for returning to practice within an appropriate supervised practice area in local NHS Trust. The practice placement is organised by the returnees, supported by UWE.

Modules are assessed by a range of methods including case studies, oral presentations, professional practice portfolios and written examinations.

For more detail see our full glossary of assessment terms.

Public Health (Specialist Community Public Health Nursing) - Postgraduate Diploma

£ 4,200 + VAT