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Full time
2 years
SEP-25
Postgraduate Diploma
District Nursing
The Community Nurse Specialist Practitioner is highly trained to deliver and lead effective, safe and responsive nursing care in and across a wide range of health and care settings.
This course is for those who are working within
Our course has been developed to enable nurses to obtain a professional qualification in community nursing.
Why study with us
Why choose a Degree Apprenticeship?
With a Degree Apprenticeship you get a great qualification and a career boost. Its the perfect opportunity to develop your skills and knowledge through work-based learning, as you earn.
Youll grow and nurture your talent through the forward-thinking businesses we collaborate with to offer a Degree Apprenticeship through us.
Who is this course for?
This course is for those who are currently employed within the following pathways:
As an Advanced Community Nurse Specialist Practitioner you must demonstrate clinical expertise in your field. This will enable you to deliver both high quality, appropriate interventions and have the ability to lead others in the care team in respect of their practice. As a Specialist Practitioner you will become a resource and consultant to others and act as a source of advanced education.
The occupations purpose is working with people in domestic settings, care homes, a hostel/hotels, prison services etc, a healthcare setting or even the streets, in the case of the homeless population.
Community nurse specialist practitioners work independently and autonomously in situations that may challenging.
You will manage the response to changing local demands. This requires careful oversight and case-management.
You will lead a team, who often work in isolation, without immediate and direct access to medical advice. Community nurse specialist practitioners also influence and lead change-management initiatives within the service.
Future careers and job roles
Specialist practice qualifications are annotations on the NMC register. They indicate that a registered nurse has successfully undertaken an NMC approved SPQ programme that meets NMC standards in a particular area of practice.
Community Nurse Specialist Practitioners are highly trained to deliver and lead effective, safe, and responsive nursing care across a wide range of health and care settings.
In this role, you will model leadership values and behaviours within teams and collaborate with senior leaders of organisations to implement policies, ensuring compliance with legislative boundaries in the workplace.
You will work with people of all ages and communities across numerous organisations and settings, such as
This Level 7 module prepares healthcare professionals such as nurses, midwives, pharmacists and allied health professionals to practice as independent prescribers as well as supplementary prescribers. You will use the relevant professional standards set by the relevant council for each profession.
To study this module, you must be an appropriately trained and qualified health professional with at least three years’ experience and be currently working in the relevant specialist field as you require patient access for assessments.
This module supports evidence-based healthcare by teaching you how to find, appraise, and evaluate the best research evidence. It will help you answer specific clinical questions with the knowledge and skills you gain.
The module aims to develop your duties, skills, knowledge and behaviour reflected in the ‘Standards of Proficiency for Community Nursing Specialist Practice Qualifications’ (NMC, 2022). This will enable you to carry out comprehensive examination of the patient in its entirety.
This module aims to provide you, working within a District Nursing community setting, with a range of opportunities to develop their role as a qualified advanced community nurse specialist practitioner.
Applying the standards of proficiency for Community Nurse Specialist Practice will ensure that you, working as a Specialist Practice Qualified District Nurse, are able to provide care for individual patients, families/carers, and manage caseloads utilising clinical knowledge, leadership, and management skills.
For this course (per year)
£9,450
For this course (per year)
£17,900
The University of Central Lancashire is an international, multi-campus university leading the way in modern postgraduate learning today. The university’s main campus is located in Preston, Lancashire – a small yet thriving city which was recently named the best city in the north west of England to live and work (Demos-PwC Good Growth for Cities Index, 2024). The university has a student and staff community of around 42,000 people from more...more
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