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Study Details: MSc 3 years part time
This multi-professional MSc Children’s Community Nursing course is designed for qualified children’s nurses wishing to consolidate or prepare for a leadership role within a community context.
Being able to critically analyse and evaluate both policy and practice is a central focus of this course. It aims to develop professionals who can independently access information and use it to critically assess, evaluate and disseminate the evidence base for community nursing care.
It will advance your knowledge of the management of children with complex needs, life-limiting conditions and specialist care requirements, and provide you with the skills to support families for whom the focus is providing care closer to home.
You will develop specialist knowledge in decision making, law, ethics and multi-disciplinary teamwork, as well as the confidence to lead, develop and bring about change in community and primary care.
You will gain a recordable specialist practice qualification in Children’s Community Nursing as well as the Masters qualification, and have your professional competencies, as set out by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), assessed in theory and practice through 40 days of practical clinical placements. This Community Children’s Nursing course is currently funded by the Workforce, Education and Development Services department of Welsh Government.
Applicants must have a first level registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) and be on part 8 or 15 of the NMC register.
You must have acquired a credit rating of 120 credits* at Level 6 (Degree) or studied previously at Level 7, e.g. postgraduate diploma.
An Enhanced Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check on the Child & Adult Workforce and Child and Adult Barring Lists.
These courses are normally supported by Welsh Government commissioners in collaboration with NHS University health Boards
Undertaking this Children’s Community Nursing course ensures you will graduate with the knowledge, skills, competencies and capacity to provide safe and effective nursing care in community settings. Additionally, having employees with a specialist practitioner qualification is valued by nursing managers, commissioners and the Welsh Government.
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