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Postgraduate Diploma - PgDip
Queen Margaret University
Full Time
Sep 2026
3 Year
District nurses provide complex care for people and support for family members. While they are autonomous practitioners, district nurses work as part of integrated teams to provide holistic person-centred care.On completion of the course, you will be able to ‘exercise higher levels of judgement discretion and decision-making skills’ and meet the proficiencies for postgraduate community nurses as defined in the seven platforms of the SPQ Standards.The course outcomes have been developed with the requirements of the NMC Standards of Proficiency for community nursing specialist practice qualifications (NMC 2022), and on successful completion of the course you will be invited by the NMC to record your SPQ DN qualification on their Register.
