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PGCert

Clinical Community Nursing

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Duration

1 Year

Start

September 2023

Delivery

Campus Taught

Our PGCert Clinical Community Nursing combines Non-medical Prescribing (NMP) and Advanced Clinical Examination (ACE). This will enable you to develop clinical examination skills which will complement your NMP qualification.

Community nurses work with adults of all ages and communities. They work across many different organisations and settings. These include:

Primary care
Social care
Third sector organisations
Hospitals (including mental health)
Hospices
Prisons
Other community services

Community nurses ensure that patients receive the right care, at the right time, every time.

On our course, you'll develop skills that promote autonomous practice. You'll also develop critical thinking and evidence-based practice.

Community nurses work independently, and with others, to deliver care in line with agreed plans. They will have a wide breadth of knowledge and a flexible, portable skill set to serve local health populations.

The two modules that make up the PG Certificate are the NMP and ACE modules. The NMP module consists of 13 taught days, 13 directed study days and 90 clinical hours. The ACE module consists of 8 taught days.

You'll have a variety of learning opportunities including live lectures, group seminars, practical clinical skills work and directed study.

Why study with us

This course has been designed by combining two complementary modules and is unique to UCLan for community nurses.
UCLan was ranked first for money invested into student wellbeing services (2020, Student Welfare League Table)
We recently invested £200m in new buildings and facilities, including a dedicated Student Centre at the heart of the Preston Campus

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What you'll do

Share and learn with a unique peer network of professionals.
The programme structure includes 2 core modules – one at 40 credits and one at 20 credits
The practicality of the course allows students to apply learning to work context and individual learning needs.

Module overview

Course delivery

This course is taught face-to-face at one of our UK campuses.

100%Face-to-face

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of our published course information. However, our programmes are subject to ongoing review and development. Changing circumstances may cause alteration to, or the cancellation of, courses. Changes may be necessary to comply with the requirements of accrediting bodies or revisions to subject benchmarks statements. As well as to keep courses updated and contemporary, or as a result of student feedback. We reserve the right to make variations if we consider such action to be necessary or in the best interests of students.

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Accreditations

This course is validated by the NMC, the nursing and midwifery regulator for England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Future careers

The PGCert Clinical Community Nursing will support community nurses in being highly trained to deliver safe and responsive nursing care in and across a wide range of health and care settings.

Community Nurses will be further empowered to work independently, and with others within defined parameters. This will enable them to diagnose and prescribe care in line with agreed plans.

Community Nurses work with adults of all ages in organisations including primary care, social care, third sector organisations, hospitals. These include mental health, hospices, prisons, and other community services. This qualification will ensure that patients receive the right care, at the right time, every time.

Fees and funding

2022/23

Part-time£1,540 per 20 credits

Scholarships and bursaries

We have a wide range of scholarships, bursaries and funds available to help support you whilst studying with us.

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Delivery for both modules is face to face.

UCLan has an extensive array of learning resources both on and off campus. For those off campus there are many resources:

Electronic resources including e-journals and e-books
Search by Subject guides to help access journals and books, etc
Online access to other libraries and information services (perhaps closer to home) through local and national schemes.
Inter-Library Loans Service
Information Skills training programme
Access to IT help and advice from LIS Customer Support
The Remote Access services allow students to access their UCLan network account, the library's electronic resources and some core software applications from their own computer as if they were on-campus.

The assessment strategy for the V300 consists of 2 formative and 3 summative assessments detailed below:

Numeracy & Pharmacology exam 120 mins
Clinical Assessment Documents
OSCE (25 minutes)
Essay (2500 words)

The ACE module assessment strategy includes a formative practice assessment document to support learning and 2 summative assessments detailed below

OSCE (45 minute)
Essay (1000 words)