Specialist Community Public Health Nurse PGDip

University of Lancashire

As a registered nurse or midwife this course meets the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) professional standards for specialist community public health nurses (Health Visiting or School Nursing). It can also lead to a new and rewarding career in public health nursing.You’ll be equipped with skills to act as a clinician, educator, manager and leader, to proactively meet changing public healthcare needs. And you’ll be better able to respond to the expectations and demands of individuals, groups and populations in a multi-cultural, multi-ethnic society. You can register as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse on the third part of the Nursing and Midwifery register.And, as the course is mapped to the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework, it will help with career progression.The course promotes independent, shared and autonomous learning developing you as a specialist community public health nurse.You’ll develop your professional proficiency underpinned by sound, evidence based theoretical knowledge, within the practice of specialist community public health nursing.You’ll cover the four principles of public health practice; the search for, and stimulating awareness, of health needs, policies and health needs and health enhancing activities.