PG Diploma Public Health Nursing and District Nursing options

Comments about PG Diploma Public Health Nursing and District Nursing options - At the institution - Paisley - Renfrewshire

• Entry requirements
  ENTRY REQUIREMENTS * Applicants must be First Level Registered Nurses on a part of the Nursing & Midwifery Council’s professional register: Public Health Nursing – Part 1 or 2; Community Nursing in the Home – District Nursing – Part 1 (RN1 & RNA). In addition, candidates must have a minimum of two years’ postregistration experience. (please also see contents page for more details)
• Academic title
  PG Diploma Public Health Nursing and District Nursing options
• Course description
  These courses – Graduate Diploma Specialist Community Public Health Nursing and Graduate Diploma Specialist Practitioner District Nursing – are modular academic programmes 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. All programmes start each year in September.
  
  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 course modules are delivered by blended learning which combines university teaching with practice-based learning. The discipline-specific 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).