Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Postgraduate Studentships - Search for funding opportunities.
Study Details: 1-2 Years
The apprentice learns the skills and knowledge to be a proficient, confident and innovative district nurse or non-medical prescriber, who can deliver evidence-based care while leading a team and managing a caseload of patients with complex needs.
To be accepted on to an apprenticeship course you must have support from your employer and meet the course entry requirements.
You learn key aspects of district nursing, including building a community profile, safeguarding, risk, teaching and learning, promoting independence, the experience of service users and carers, and understanding associated research.
You incorporate the professional district nursing proficiencies, management and leadership skills, developing service improvements, patient safety and understanding research methodology for project design.
Advancing Non-medical Prescribing
Independent and supplementary prescribing is an integrated feature of health service delivery. Some health-specific professionals are qualified to prescribe across a range of healthcare settings. Advancing roles within both nursing and allied health professions have provided a greater access to medicines. This award provides nurses and allied health professionals (physiotherapists, radiographers, podiatrists, dietitians, and paramedics who are working in advanced practice roles) with the knowledge and skills to prescribe safely and effectively. You must work within your own scope of practice and area of competence and be able to complete the care cycle in a holistic manner for clients within your care.
Physical Assessment Skills with a Focus on Long Term Conditions
You explore clinical assessment and management skills for key long-term conditions, drawing on current guidelines and practice.
Modules offered may vary.
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