These courses – Graduate Diploma Specialist Community Public Health Nursing and Graduate Diploma Specialist Practitioner District Nursing– are designed to enhance the education and training of First Level Nurses wishing to gain a Community Specialist Practitioner qualification.
The courses will enable First Level Nurses to obtain both an academic qualification and a professional qualification in Community Nursing in the Home – District Nursing; or Public Health Nursing – Health Visiting/School Nursing.
Course Contents
The courses comprise six modules: three common core modules and three discipline-specific modules:
Common Core modules (each worth 20 credits at SCQF Level 9):• Community Needs Assessment• Perspectives of Public Health• Developing Primary Care Leaders
Discipline-specific modules (each worth 20 credits at SCQF Level 9):• Principles of Public Health Nursing or Principles of District Nursing• Practice of Public Health Nursing or Practice of District Nursing• Consolidation of Public Health Nursing or Consolidation of District Nursing
The common core modules are delivered by blended learning which combines university teaching with practice-based learning. The disciplinespecific modules are taught modules which also incorporate practice-based learning. The final module at the end of the programme is the consolidation module which entails a 10 week full-time period in the defined area of practice (public health nursing or district nursing).
Graduate Diploma Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (OHN)In addition to the above options, the Graduate Diploma Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Occupational Health Nursing) will be offered commencing September 2009 – see page 96 for more information.
Tuesday, December 15, 2009
Public Health Nursing and District Nursing options
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