PgDip District Nursing

Build on your expertise and expand your knowledge, skills, and proficiency as specialists in District Nursing, through research informed teaching and active, real- world learning.

Course summary

Enhance and develop your leadership and management skills.
Foster excellence in practice to meet the challenges involved in complex care provision.
Develop detailed knowledge and meet the Standards for Specialist Practice.
Develop personal resilience as an autonomous and independent decision maker.

Aimed at students who can demonstrate their ability to study at the required level, this course helps you to extend and develop a critical understanding of the advances in district nursing practice. You will learn how to maximise relationships with key partners and coordinate care for people in their own homes and other environments.

All our courses are designed around a set of key principles based on engaging you with the world, collaborating with others, challenging you to think in new ways, and providing you with a supportive environment in which you can thrive.

You have the opportunity to select full time or part-time study. You learn through a combination of University based and practice learning. The course is made up of 50% practice and 50% theory.

University-based and practice learning experiences are effectively combined in order to achieve the learning outcomes for the programme as a whole. This culminates in a consolidated block of learning at the end of the programme.

The teaching team consists of academics and experts in practice. The curriculum design is innovative in the way in which it integrates learning from practice and theory throughout.

You can study individual modules from this course and gain academic credit towards a qualification. Visit our continuing professional development web page for more information.

You learn through

group work
lectures and seminars
workshops
learning in the workplace
independent study
insight visits and alternative practice

Future careers

Further opportunities, usually with experience or further study include

leading and managing district nurse teams
leading and managing integrated care teams
working in other areas, such as general practice, independent sector, voluntary and charitable organisations
in complex case management
as a community matron

To complete the course you typically need • at least 120 credits at level 6 (or pending results prior to the course starting) • current registration on part one (nursing) of the Nursing and Midwifery Council-s (NMC) register • normally at least one year's post-registration experience • to be working as a community staff nurse working in a community team • self-declaration of good health and character as required by the NMC • to have successfully applied for a student district nurse NHS training post • to have a sponsoring health care organisation and be employed by the NHS for the duration of the course