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PG Dip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing

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    PGDip 1 year full-time

Course Description

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.

Take your career in the direction you want to go in

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.

Entry Requirements

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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Fees

Part Time Home and EU 2019/20: £4,500 per year

Student Destinations

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.

Module Details

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)

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