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PGDip Community Specialist Practitioner

University of Lancashire, United Kingdom
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Course Overview

Build on your experience and skills as a community nurse or midwife with our Community Specialist Practitioner postgraduate, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)-approved course. Youll enhance your practical and theoretical knowledge of working and caring for people in the community, as we support you to become an adaptable, reflexive, and responsive practitioner who promotes the highest standards of client health care. Successful completion of the Community Specialist Practitioner course means youll be on record as a community specialist practitioner on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register. As a clinician, educator, manager, and leader youll proactively meet changing health care needs and the expectations and demands of individuals, groups, and populations in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society.

General Eligibility

  • Applicants should hold at least a 2:2 degree in health related area or equivalent

  • Community Children's Nursing: entry on sub part 1: Child - RN8 or RNC

  • Credits: 360 credits of which 120 must be at Level 6 in a relevant Nursing Practice or Social Sciences related subject

  • Applicants must have Experience of practicing within a healthcare environment for a minimum of 18 hours per week and have support from the manager

  • A detailed admissions procedure will be forwarded on application

  • Have the commitment of their employer to support course fees

  • The equivalent of at least one year post-registration practice experience

  • DBS clearance which will be organised through your employing organisation

Part Time Work Details

20 Hours of Work permit weekly for international students.

What You'll Study

1 Year 1

Compulsory modules

  • Introduction to Postgraduate Research

  • Community Specialist Practice in Perspective

  • Principles of Public Health and Social Policy

  • Leadership in Practice

Optional modules

  • Community Practitioner Prescribing V100

  • Care of the Child with Cancer

  • Thinking Children

  • Trafficking of People

  • Professional Development in Community Practice

  • Safeguarding

  • Safeguarding

  • Practice and Professional Development

Language Requirement

  • IELTS6.0
  • TOEFL78
  • PTE58
  • Duolingo79
IELTS: 6.5 with no component lower than 6.0

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