Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (PGDip) ft
Postgraduate
In High Wycombe
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Description
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Type
Postgraduate
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Location
High wycombe
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Duration
1 Year
If you want to build your career in health visiting or school nursing, this course gives you the in-depth grounding you need.
Approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the course covers all the areas you need to qualify, and make a difference, in one of these fields, supporting children and their development and helping to give them the best start in life.
As a school nurse, you will play a vital role working with children and young people, and act as an important link between home, school and the community with the ultimate goal of improving wellbeing.
On the other hand, as a health visitor, you would be working with children from birth to five years old and their families, providing much-needed support to families, assessing their health needs and monitoring growth and development.
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About this course
As a graduate of this course, you will be well equipped to move forward as a team leader in either health visiting or school nursing. Your career trajectory may also include management, practice teaching or teaching in higher education.
This course is for qualified nurses with a degree. You will be sponsored by a health organisation or trust and achieve a postgraduate diploma, while gaining advanced skills and knowledge in an area of public health nursing you want to specialise in.
You need to be registered as a level 1 nurse on the appropriate part of the NMC register.
You also need to be working in UK clinical practice, so this course is just available to UK students.
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Subjects
- Public Health
- Health nursing
- Nurse
- Nurse training
- Health Practice
- Philosophical
- Mental Health
- Healthcare
- Nurse Prescribing
- Health Visiting
- Nursing
Course programme
Year 1 Modules
- Enhancing Specialist Community Public Health Practice
- Philosophical Enquiry in Practice
- Critical Perspectives in Child and Adolescent Development
- Leading Innovative Healthcare in the Community Setting
- Critical Issues in Mental Health Across the Lifespan
- Critical Aspects of Safeguarding Vulnerable Children and Adolescents
- Nurse Prescribing (V100)
This course covers all the areas needed to meet the NMC professional requirements for specialist community public health nurses, with a focus on either health visiting or school nursing.
By the end of the course, you will be able to:
- Understand the complexities of working in a community setting
- Better appreciate strategic influences on policy
- Take a critical approach to identifying the health needs of individuals, groups and populations in the community
- Consider aspects of safeguarding children, young people and their families. As you may be working with at risk or deprived groups, it is important you recognise when a child is at risk of harm and what action to take
- Develop leadership, innovation and management skills to be able to contribute to successful health outcomes for children
- Show you have the necessary skills for working in the community, so you can qualify for the third part of the NMC register.
Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (PGDip) ft
-
University of Phoenix
Bachelor's degree OnlinePrice on request -
City College Norwich
Course OnlinePrice on request -
GB Direct
Course OnlinePrice on request -
Primary Care Training Group
Short course Distance LearningPrice on request -
Kaplan University
Bachelor's degree Distance LearningPrice on request -
Training World
Course Distance LearningPrice on request -
THINK.HEALTH.CARE.
Course Distance LearningPrice on request
See all