MSc Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (incorporating PG Dip)
When can you start this course? | Fees | Course length | Entry requirements
Why choose this course?
- You'll study modules which are linked to clinical practice, such as public health, specialist professional issues, research methods, and leadership and management, so they will really help your career development.
- Half of your time will be spent on a placement, so you'll get hands on experience as well as learning the theory.
- You can study individual modules as stand alone courses as part of your professional development.
- This course meets the Nursing and Midwifery Council standards, so you'll gain a recordable qualification.
About the course
During this course you'll study for 50% of your time and will be on placement for the rest of the time. When you've completed the course you'll have developed the skills you need to become an effective specialist nurse in your chosen area of expertise.
You'll study clinical practice and development, and will develop your leadership skills throughout the course. You'll gain an in depth knowledge of professional roles and functions and be encouraged to bring about integrated and high quality health and social care.
The knowledge and skills you develop in evaluating current research and evidence based practice will also help you to influence and deliver high quality care.
You'll need to be active on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register and be sponsored by a Primary Care NHS Trust. The NHS Trust will also need to provide you with a specialist practice placement, which counts for 50% of the course.
Find out more about what subjects and modules you'll be studying...Your career
You'll gain a registerable qualification which will meet the current public health agenda in the area of specialist community public health nursing, so it'll really boost your career.
When you graduate you'll have be able to:
- have the skills to become an effective specialist nurse in your chosen area of expertise
- be committed to lifelong learning, encourage colleagues to be, and contribute to national debates
- be able to master clinical practice, care and programme management, clinical practice leadership, and clinical practice development
- show leadership and have a critical in depth knowledge of professional roles and functions, so you can bring about integrated and high quality health and social care, through working with other professionals effectively, networking and team working
- have knowledge and skills in evaluating current research and evidence based practice so you can influence and deliver high quality care.
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Start dates
If you're from the UK or EU you can apply to study this course in:
- September 2012
If you're from a country outside the EU you can apply to study this course full time in:
- September 2012
Fees*
UK/EU students
- £815 per single module (you usually take 9 of these modules in total).
*These fees apply if you're starting this course between September 2012 and August 2013. We recommend you check fee details with us though, as they can change. Costs can increase each year.
Course length
Full time: 52 weeks (or equivalent part time)
Entry requirements
You should: have an entry on an appropriate part of the NMC Register be employed by the Primary ...
