Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: Full Time: 1 year.
This Nursing and Midwifery Council-approved course leads to registration on Part 3 of the register as a specialist community public health nurse (school nursing) and is ideal if you are a nurse or midwife looking to become a school nurse.
You gain the knowledge and skills you need to take a public health approach to healthcare provision. As a nurse or midwife completing this course, you will transition into the role of public health nurse so that you can contribute positively to the new public health agenda and gain employment as a school nurse.
The course outcomes reflect the Nursing and Midwifery Council Standards for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing and encapsulate the ten principles which underpin public health nursing. It is a practice-centred course, delivered on a 50% taught theory and 50% practice basis over 52 programmed weeks for the one-year full-time route. You are allocated a practice assessor by your sponsoring organisation who facilitates your learning in practice and is responsible for the assessment of your competence in practice.
You explore a range of modules, gaining an understanding of the evidence which underpins and supports practice and develop the knowledge and skills to enable you to practice within contemporary school nursing. Your practice experience enables you to link your theoretical knowledge base to practice. There is a ten-week period of supervised practice at the end of the course.
You are expected to: have 120 credits at certificate level and 120 credits at diploma level (or equivalent)have a valid registration on Part 1 or Part 2 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) professional register (defined area of practice regulations apply)be sponsored by an employing organisation that guarantees your supernumerary status throughout the course (see standards of proficiency for specialist community public health nurses, pp19-20, NMC, 2004)have a nominated practice teacher* who contributes to your teaching and assessment process, providing you with the opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills you need for complex and professional practice and to lead as a specialist community public health nursing practitioner.*in accordance with the NMC (2008) Standards to support learning and assessment in practice.
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On completing the course, increased employment opportunities are available to you in the public health sector including public health nursing and school nursing.
Core modules
Advancing Community Practitioner Prescribing
Advancing Leadership Skills in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
Contemporary Public Health in Practice
Developing Research Projects
Enhancing Safe and Effective Practice in Health Visiting Practice
Implementing Evidence Based Practice
Modules offered may vary.
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