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

Course detail Description

The Specialist Community Public Health Visiting/School Nursing BSc course offers two pathways of study. Initially, you will undertake modules in Leadership in Public Health, Evidence-Based Practice, Child Protection and Specialist Practice.

If you are looking to follow the Health Visitor pathway, then you will also undertake an additional nurse prescribing module. Alternatively, the School Nurse pathway the course follows a more clinically focused option.

These choices are designed to equip you with the evidence to demonstrate eligibility to register for specialist practitioner status with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). This course may also be suitable if you are a registered practitioner seeking further educational opportunities covering supporting autonomous practice, educational and practice development or exercising clinical leadership.

Teaching style

You can expect approximately 510 hours of scheduled contact time, which may include lectures, seminars, tutorials, project supervision and workshops.

To complete the course and receive the professional award, you are required to meet the Nursing and Midwifery Council Standard of a minimum of 113 days of practice. This timescale will include 55 days learning and 15 days gaining relevant experience in areas of responsibility, even if not central to the defined area of practice (i.e. Health Visiting or School Nursing). It also includes a minimum of 50 days of consolidated training at the end of the programme to enable you to strengthen your education and competence in the practice field (Health Visiting or School Nursing). Your overall time spent in practice will total 120 days.

You will also spend approximately 540 hours of independent study, such as preparing for scheduled sessions, follow-up work, wider reading, and completion of assessment tasks and revision.

Assessment

Fifty per cent of the programme is undertaken in practice and students’ achievement of the Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards of Proficiency is assessed during this element by a practice teacher. Fifty per cent of the programme is undertaken in theory, here students are assessed through coursework such as; essays, portfolios and dissertations, along with an unseen written examination.

The study time and assessment methods detailed above are typical and give you a good indication of what to expect. However, they may change if the course modules change.

Location(s):

Guy’s Campus

Waterloo Campus

Denmark Hill Campus

St Thomas’ Campus

The degree programme is delivered across four of King’s College London campuses. This includes three Thames-side campuses (Waterloo, St Thomas’ and Guy’s) and the Denmark Hill Campus in South London.

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Structure

Year 1

The programme begins in mid-September. Assessment is predominantly by coursework but at least one module is assessed by examination. Most modules have a single assessment.

• Delivering the Healthy Child Programme
• Evidence Based Practice
• Child Protection: Assessment and Intervention
• Prescribing from the Community Nursing Formulary
• Leadership skills for Public Health Nursing
• Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Assessment and Treatment
• SCPHN Professional Portfolio
• Public Health Nursing Practice Portfolio

Courses are divided into modules. You will normally take modules totalling 120 credits per year. This course begins in mid-September.