MSC, PGdip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing: Health Visiting Pathway

The program will support you in applying your skills of critical reflection to enhance your professional, personal and academic development. It will encourage the development of sound Health visiting practices based on the critical application of research and evidence and will introduce you to theories and practices of leadership and partnership working. Your clinical placement experiences will enable you to gain expertise in the full range of Health Visting skills, through observation and practice supervised by a Practice Teacher. Through undertaking the award, you will be prepared to work with communities, families, and individuals to improve health and reduce health inequalities to optimize life chances, in partnership with people and organizations, in support of the government’s health and social agenda. On successful completion of this course, you are able to register with the NMC on the third part of the register as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse.

• Research Methods (15 levels 7 credits)
• Leadership and Management in Healthcare (15 level 7 credits)
• Specialist Community Practice (15 level 7 credits)
• Public Health and Social Policy (30 level 7 credits)
• The Developing Child (30 level 7 credits)
• Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing (V100) (15 level 6 credits)

Employability

This course has been designed to produce specialist community public health practitioners who are safe, competent, and deliver professional practice in a community public health setting, meeting Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) standards for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing. You will develop your leadership skills whilst on the program, therefore enabling you to plan and lead services and initiatives which promote health improvement, as well as community practitioner prescribing as applicable to your role. You will achieve the recordable qualification through the Postgraduate diploma; however, there is the opportunity to undertake a dissertation through a part-time route to convert this post-graduate diploma to a Master’s Degree. Students who have met the requirements for the award of a Postgraduate Diploma will be eligible to proceed into year 2, onto the Masters’ award, subject to the rules of progression. The award of MSc Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) requires successful completion of the 60 credit NUR-40037: Advanced Work-Based Practice Project module on a part-time basis.