Specialist Community Public Health Nursing with NMC Registration BSc (Hons)
De Montfort University
About this program
Specialist Community Public Health Nursing with NMC Registration BSc (Hons)
The program aims to ensure that students are prepared to promote health and social well- being through the achievement of the standards of proficiency of specialist community public health nursing (NMC 2004) and adherence to The Code (NMC, 2018).
Practitioners are challenged to consider the socio-economic, political and professional factors that influence and reflect health care demands and provision. They are facilitated in developing their knowledge and skills to enhance the provision of health care, by applying appropriate theory, research and evidence, to reflect contemporary perspectives. Emphasis is placed upon acknowledging the multi-dimensional nature of human beings and providing health promoting care through collaborative working.
Health visitors and School Nurses as Specialist Community Public Health Nurses will have the scope to develop strategies to expand their capacity to lead public health practice and participate in local health plans. The role for health visitors and school nurses focuses on individual, family and community centred public health to improve and tackle health inequalities.The ultimate aim is for you to mature into someone with the skills, knowledge and understanding to function as a valuable member of the community, and become a reflective, evidence-based and innovative practitioner as you deliver a client-centred program of care.
This course is only available for UK/EU students.
Admission requirements
All students must have an effective registration on either the Nursing or Midwifery part of the NMC professional register as a first level nurse.
And:
Also possess 120 credits at levels 4 and 5 and have the ability to study successfully at degree level.
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Learn moreProgram content
- Contemporary Approaches to child Development 0-19
- Promoting the wellbeing of Children and Young people 0- 19
- Public Health
- Developing Research Skills
- Organisational Development and Change in Contemporary Healthcare
- An Assest Approach to Support Effective Parenting
- Protecting and Safeguarding Children and Adults
- Complex Health Needs
Scholarships & funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Program delivery
A range of appropriate strategies will be used. Strategies may include:
- Lectures, online learning and discussion methods, providing the knowledge to underpin practice and to promote student participation and the sharing of views.
- Tutor led seminars to promote reflection, clinical learning, academic progress and to provide opportunities to address student issues.
- Group work to explore complex issues and difficult concepts in regards to problem solving and skill development.
- Computer based learning/internet facilities to access web based information
- Student led seminars to promote reflection, participation and academic development.
- Independent learning to develop the skills necessary for student centred life long learning flexible learning.
Career paths
A BSc (Hons) or PG Dip academic award and professional qualification (recommended to the NMC part three of the register) will allow you to practise as either as a health visitor or school nurse (dependent on field undertaken) in providing high quality child, family, group and wider community specialist public health nursing care in clinical practice.
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About this institute
De Montfort University
De Montfort University (DMU) in England welcome hundreds of European students every year for one of our 300 courses at foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate level. We have approx. 25,000 students studying in our 4 faculties; Business & Law; Health &...
Why study at De Montfort University
- Ranked 20th for Graduate Prospects (The Times & Sunday Times Good University Guide 2020)
- In the top 10% of institutions overall recognised by the Times Higher Education’s Impact Rankings 2020
- TEF Gold Award in the 2017 Teaching Excellence Framework – the only government-endorsed measure of teaching quality in higher education.
- Campus of the Future - DMU has invested £136m in transforming its campus, creating new green space in Leicester and using renewable energy technology. Four of the largest campus buildings generate renewable energy via more than 1,110 solar panels, and a wood biomass boiler cuts out the need to burn fossil fuels.
- 2030 Climate Action - More than 100 students and staff have taken part in carbon literacy training to understand how choices like transport, clothes, overseas travel and food impact the planet. DMU and the University of Leicester have teamed up with Leicester City Council to deliver the training in city schools. DMU has halved its carbon dioxide emissions since 2005.
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