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Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) Professional Graduate Certificate

Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) Professional Graduate Certificate

Different course options

Full time | Teesside University | 1 year | SEP-25

Study mode

Full time

Duration

1 year

Start date

SEP-25

Key information
DATA SOURCE : IDP Connect

Qualification type

Graduate Certificate

Subject areas

Health Visiting Health Promotion Environmental Health (General) Community Medicine

Course Summary

Your educational journey of personal and professional development in a supportive and student-centred environment builds on your prior knowledge, skills and experience.This Nursing and Midwifery Council-approved course leads to registration on Part 3 of the register as a specialist community public health nurse (health visiting).Leadership is a key element, and you focus on quality improvement and how leadership skills and qualities can influence achievement of sustained change within SCPHN practice, and develop as a responsive, resilient and flexible practitioner who can respond to the changing health and social care environment. You investigate the health needs, protection and surveillance of the child and family in a health visiting context, and prescribe from the community practitioners' formulary.This is a practice-centred course with 50% taught theory and 50% practice. You require a contract and agreement with a health trust, local authority or employer to provide a clinical placement. You are allocated a practice assessor by your sponsoring organisation – they facilitate your learning in practice and are responsible for assessing your competence in practice.

Modules

This module prepares specialist community public health Nurses (ie health visiting and school nursing) to prescribe from the Community Practitioners' Formulary. It is undertaken by students studying health visiting and school nursing and utilises seminars, student-led discussions, learning sets and exposure to supervised prescribing experiences with their practice teacher in the student's practice placement. There will also be periods of self-directed study based upon the indicative content and an assessment of your own learning needs in relation to prescribing. E-learning via the e-learning@tees.ac.uk site will be used as a resource for you to keep a learning log of prescribing practice experience from which you will develop a selection of case studies for analysis.

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£9,250

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

To be confirmed

Entry requirements

Applicants are expected to: have 120 credits at certificate level and 120 credits at diploma level (or equivalent); have a valid registration on Part 1 or Part 2 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council professional register (defined area of practice regulations apply); have a nominated practice assessor who contributes to your teaching and assessment process, providing you with the opportunities to develop the knowledge and skills you need for complex and professional practice and to lead as a specialist community public health nursing practitioner.