PG DIP COMMUNITY SPECIALIST PRACTITIONER � COMMUNITY CHILDREN�S NURSING (Subject to Validation) Postgraduate Diploma
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Northumbria University has an established reputation for excellence and innovation in nursing education to build on the future nurse standards in meeting the SCPHN standards Standards of proficiency for specialist community publichealth nurses (SCPHN) - The Nursing and Midwifery Council (nmc.org.uk).
As an registered nurse or midwife from the NMC standards, you will graduate from the Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting / School Nursing) post registration programme and you will build on existing nursing knowledge to advance evidence-based practice, and it will enable you to make a genuine impact on the health and wellbeing of your clients and patients. You will be able to apply critical thinking and synthesis in the expert learning within the field of health visiting and will learn specialist skills for public health and community working and be supported to develop effective leadership skills and advanced partnership working across all areas of practice.
SCPHN health visitors (HV) are uniquely placed to reach every child in their own home, and be connected to their whole family and community, to positively influence their future health outcomes. Health visitors use their professional autonomy to adapt and tailor their response to the health and wellbeing needs of individuals, families and communities within diverse and changing contexts.
After successfully completing this post registration programme, you will be recognised as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, on the third part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council register. You will also receive a Postgraduate Diploma from Northumbria University.
You will study partially at our Coach Lane Campus, and partially on placement, with both strands running alongside each other to give you an integrated approach to theory and practice.
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Level of Study
Postgraduate
Mode of Study
2 Years Part Time
Location
Coach Lane Campus, Northumbria University
City
Newcastle
Start
September 2024
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Throughout this Postgraduate Diploma you will experience a range of creative and challenging learning opportunities and different environments. This will enable you to grow, personally and professionally, within safe and supportive spaces.
This Postgraduate Diploma has a variety of innovative and unique learning and teaching strategies including opportunity to share learning with students in other community nursing specialist programmes, enabling you to develop and enhance advanced communication and interpersonal skills, through the contemporary socio-political landscape and collaborative working of Specialist Community Public Health Nurses. The programme structure and content has been co-produced by extensive stakeholder and public engagement, which includes, students, employers, people who use public health services, and practice partners.
In addition, we’ll use the supported online learning environment to enhance your digital skills within practice, and to help you understand and promote the use of digital technology as a solution within care settings.
To achieve the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse standards of Proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing you will undertake a range of formative and summative assessments across all modules. Formative assessment will be an on-going key feature of the programme, via student led action learning sessions, one to one discussions and e-learning. Formative assessment will provide constructive feedback to help your development for summative assessment.
The NMC standards for this postgraduate diploma programme are the standards for specialist community public health nursing, all applicants will already be registered nurses or midwives as this is a post registration programme.
You will be supported throughout your time at Northumbria by a truly remarkable team of highly experienced academics and practitioners, you will be allocated a Practice Assessor, Practice Supervisor and Academic Assessor (Nursing and Midwifery Council 2023) all of whom are experts within your field of Specialist Community Public Health Nursing practice. During your practice learning you will also complete a minimum of five days in other areas to wider develop your public health knowledge.
You’ll benefit from our Personal Tutor system, Learning Leaders programme, and close partnership working with Practice Supervisors and Assessors, all of which play a part in ensuring you meet University and NMC expectations. We will all coach you towards independent learning and personal and professional achievements, as you journey towards graduation and registration.
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Dr Emma Senior
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Sarah Greenshields
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Paul Watson
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Research-rich learning will be embedded throughout the course, culminating in a dissertation that will allow you to explore a topic of your choice in significant depth. You will have the option to conduct an empirical study, undertaking hands-on research supported by tutors with specialist knowledge in that area.
Our academic staff have extensive research experience across nursing, midwifery and health, where our work informs policy and practice to improve quality, safety and effectiveness. Our areas of research strength include Ageing, Later Life & Long-term Conditions (ALL), Healthcare Organisation, Practice Improvement & Economics (HOPE), and Healthcare Education and Learning for Practice and Patient Safety (HELPPS).
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The NMC’s ‘Future Nurse’ change programme seeks to drive forward changes in the profession, and we have embedded research, leadership and advanced practice strands throughout the course to equip you to play a key role in those future developments.
After successfully completing this programme, you will be recognised as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, on the third part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council register. You will also receive a Postgraduate Diploma from Northumbria University.
At Northumbria we have long-standing strong relationships with our partnership Trusts, and we have developed this new course in close collaboration with them as well as with a wide range of experts by experience. This will ensure that the course prepares you for practice in exactly the way employers are seeking, so that you benefit from our consistently high employment rates.
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