Part time
1 year
SEP-22
Postgraduate Certificate
Drug Dispensing (Pharmacy) Drug Medicine Control (Nursing)
Taught
INTRODUCTION
This course offers registered nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals (physiotherapists, podiatrists, paramedics and therapeutic radiographers) an opportunity to enhance their clinical skills and practice and become an independent non-medical prescriber. This increases your potential to access career opportunities and improves the service user/patient and carer experience by offering a timely and responsive access route to treatment.
You will:
CAREER LINKS
We work with over 100 health and social care organisations so our links with industry are very strong. The successful completion of this programme enhances career opportunities for prescribing practice within all care sectors as it responds to an increased need for workforce development within the NHS.
Examples of job opportunities are increased employability within GP primary care for pharmacists and the substance misuse area of practice.
Students need to pay £1,375 per 30 credit module.
Part-time courses are not available for EU/international students.
Applicants must have the equivalent of a grade C or above, GCSE Mathematics and GCSE English. You should have an undergraduate degree in a related discipline. Nurses should have 1 year post-registration experience; Pharmacists require two years post-registration experience; Allied Health Professionals should have three years post-registration experience. Current professional registration with GPhC, NMC or HCPC. We welcome applications from students who may not have formal/ traditional entry criteria but who have relevant experience or the ability to pursue the course successfully.
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