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Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting or School Nursing) – (Grad.Dip.)
Oxford Brookes University
Department of Social Work and Public Health
| Application Deadline: | as early as possible | ||
| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 6,235 - ≈ € 12,862 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Oxford / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 13 months | Start Date: | September |
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| Languages: | English | ||
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The overall philosophy of the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing - Health Visiting or School Nursing (SCPHN) course is to provide an excellent course structure and teaching and learning methods in both academic and practice settings. We believe that academic preparation is an integral part of practice development and that both are part of the same process. Our aim is to enable you to be high-quality practitioners who are skilful public health nurses in school nursing or health visiting and are able to bring about change in your practice environments.
Health care and the community environment are undergoing great change. For public health to be central to the service that is offered to clients and school students, there is a need for highly dynamic and flexible practitioners. You will need sound academic skills and evidence-based practice to enable you to lead positive change, both of your own practice and that of the health visiting and school health professions as a whole. The course will challenge you and help you to develop the knowledge and skills that you require in these exciting and demanding times.
The course is centred on practice and you will spend a large amount of time in the practice environment. Your community practice teachers (CPTs) are highly involved with the development and implementation of the course and there is a great deal of collaboration with the primary care trusts (PCT) education leads. You will be encouraged to critically analyse and evaluate SCPHN practice with your lecturers and CPTs, and your assignments will provide a focus for analysing practice. Your CPT will be responsible for facilitating your learning, supervising your progress and assessing your competence in practice.
Contents
Course length
Full-time: 52-week course, of which 45 weeks are programmed over a maximum of 78 weeks
Part-time: 2-3 years over a maximum of 156 weeks
On successful completion of the course:
* you will receive a Postgraduate Diploma in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting or School Nursing)
* you will be considered to have met the NMC requirements to be a mentor
* your details will be forwarded to the NMC for registration on the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing part of the register, and for registration as able to prescribe from the community practitioner’s formulary.
The course comprises six compulsory modules. All six modules need to be taken over the year for the full-time route. The two-year part-time route requires the six modules to be taken over the two years with the required amount of practice.
There are many opportunities for you to continue to study after the end of the course and we aim to encourage you towards lifelong learning. On successful completion of the postgraduate diploma, you may achieve a master's in Public Health Nursing by enrolling for the Student Designed Award and undertaking the research module and a triple dissertation module. This will require independent funding.
The six compulsory singles modules are:
* Leadership in Health and Social Care allows you to develop and apply the knowledge, conceptual and practice skills needed to be an effective leader within health and social care environments, both in the public and private sectors.
* Advanced Health Promotion will explore practical aspects of health promotion, including how to develop strategic and action plans.
* Public Health Nursing 1 is a practice-based module which enables you to develop an in-depth systematic understanding of the knowledge and skills in public health nursing in relation to health visiting or school nursing.
* Public Health Nursing 2 is a practice-based module which will enable you to demonstrate originality and initiative in your consolidation of public health knowledge and skills.
* Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing (V100) incorporates the learning outcomes specified by the NMC for registration to enable practitioners to prescribe from the Nurse Prescribers’ Formulary for Community Practitioners.
* Risk and Protection of Children will critically examine contemporary childhood from an international perspective including children's rights, child welfare and wellbeing and children's experiences of harm in society.
Please note: as courses are reviewed regularly, the list of modules may vary from that shown here.
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test if you come from a non-English speaking country.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
More informationRequirements
Access to the SCPHN course is open to practitioners who meet the following criteria.
You must:
* be registered on either the nursing or midwifery parts of the NMC register
* be able to demonstrate evidence of advanced level study on entry
* have the support of your manager or sponsorship from a PCT
* have access to a community practice teacher
* have a source of funding to enable you to meet the course fees.
Additionally:
* entry onto the course will be subject to satisfactory Criminal Records Bureau clearance
* evidence of being currently on the NMC register will also be required.
English language requirements
If your first language is not English you must demonstrate that your level of English is appropriate for study at postgraduate level. This means you need an IELTS score of 6.5-7 overall or a qualification at an equivalent level.
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.5 |
| Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE): | Grade B (Score: 75) |
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