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PGDip

Specialist Community Public Health Nurse

Health Visiting or School Nursing

Attendance

Campus

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Duration

1 Year

Start

September 2023

Delivery

Campus Taught

As a registered nurse or midwife this course meets the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) professional standards for specialist community public health nurses (Health Visiting or School Nursing). It can also lead to a new and rewarding career in public health nursing.

Why study with us

You can register as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse on the third part of the Nursing and Midwifery register.
And, as the course is mapped to the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework, it will help with career progression.
The course promotes independent, shared and autonomous learning developing you as a specialist community public health nurse.

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What you'll do

You’ll develop your professional proficiency underpinned by sound, evidence based theoretical knowledge, within the practice of specialist community public health nursing.
You’ll cover the four principles of public health practice; the search for, and stimulating awareness, of health needs, policies and health needs and health enhancing activities.
It’s 50 percent theory and 50 percent practice and you’ll be assessed in a number of ways.

Please note modules will vary depending on your chosen pathway

Module overview

Course delivery

Following the pandemic, we have found that some courses benefit from a blended learning and teaching approach. Therefore, the majority of your teaching will be face-to-face on campus aside from a small amount of online teaching where we have learnt it works best.

95%Face-to-face

5%Online

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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Academic expertise

Accreditations

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

Future careers

As a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse you’ll be equipped to develop your role as a clinician, educator, manager and leader, proactively meeting changing public healthcare needs.

Fees and funding

2022/23

Full-time£7,800 per year

International

Full-time£14,500 per year

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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As a practitioner with post-registration practice experience you’ll enrich your learning and others by bring professional and life insights.

You’ll be involved in group discussions, problem-based learning, action learning, seminars, reflection and work and web-based learning. Assessment is through a mixture of assignments, examinations (short answers and multiple choice), viva, and portfolio and practice assessment.

For the practice assessment you’ll complete the Practice Assessment Document demonstrating how you meet the NMC standards of proficiency for specialist community public health nurses (2004). The NMC standards are formatively assessed in semesters one and two, whereas in the third semester you’ll be summatively assessed.

Learning contracts are developed, in partnership with you, your practice teacher and an identified educationalist. This helps you achieve the NMC standards and individual learning outcomes.

As part of the course you will have the opportunity to hear about the experiences of service users, carers, patients and public members via our community engagement and service user support groups (Comensus).

You’ll study the equivalent of one standard Level 6 modules (totalling 20 credits) and five Level 7 modules (totalling 100 credits).

Core modules (for all pathways)

You’ll study the following core modules:

Community and Social Policy Practice (10 credits)
Concepts of Public Health (10 credits)
Introduction to Postgraduate Research (20 credits)
Application of Public Health in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (20 credits)
Leadership in Practice (20 credits)

Health Visiting pathway only:

For the health visiting pathway you’ll also study these two modules:

Context of Health Visiting Practice (20 credits)
Consolidation of Health Visiting Practice (10 credits).

School Nursing pathway only:

For the school nursing pathway you’ll also study these two modules:

Context of School Nursing Practice (20 credits)
Consolidation of School Nursing Practice (10 credits).

There’s also be an option module of a minimum of 10 credits.