Course Overview

This course covers all the areas needed to meet the NMC professional requirements for community childrens nurses. The course makes use of a range of flexible learning and assessment approaches, to ensure you learn in the way that suits you best. We will be looking, in particular, at how well you apply the theory to your own nursing and leadership practice. You will benefit from strong support throughout, with personal and link tutors at the university, and a practice teacher supporting you to learn in your trust. As well as spending half your time in practice, case study-type simulations will allow you to explore the kind of issues you will face as a childrens community nurse. You will also work closely with students from other community nursing courses at Bucks, building your experience of working in a multi-professional way. We will give you the support you need to complete your dissertation while you work in the field. The course will cover the whole research process from ethics approval to writing your final report €“ and you will investigate a topic important to your workplace.

General Eligibility

The academic criteria for admission for this program is a Post Graduate Diploma (PG dip) (120 credits at level 7) in adult or childrens nursing. The NMC professional requirements are for applicants to be entered on the appropriate part of the NMC Register. Applicants will be a level 1 nurse and have a qualification in child or adult nursing and have completed a period of experience of sufficient length to have consolidated pre-registration outcomes. This will be assessed at the interview.

Part Time Work Details

Language Requirement

• IELTS Academic / IELTS for UKVI 6.0 (5.5)_x000D_ _x000D_ TOEFL iBT 72 overall 17 in Listening, 17 in Writing, 20 in Speaking, 18 in Reading