Emergency Nursing Practice - PgCert

Our Postgraduate Certificate in Emergency Nursing Practice enables UK registered healthcare professionals to achieve professional development and gain experience in this specialist area.

Our course covers the management of patients in an emergency department with differing care needs. You will have the opportunity to develop your:

• knowledge
• skills and understanding of assessment
• planning, delivery and evaluation of care.

You will undertake learning assessments based around practice and the workplace. There is an emphasis on practice focused learning. You will be able to develop as a practitioner, transferring course skills to direct service provision. 

We place importance on your experience within the educational process, from both a personal and professional perspective.

Relevant national and international research and evidence based literature informs course content. This helps you expand the breadth of your studies and develop a depth of critical analysis and evaluation of practice.

Learning and teaching

There are a variety of teaching and learning strategies employed. These will enable you to make the most of the range of experience, skills and knowledge within your group. They reflect the programme's student-centered, patient-centred and practice-focused approach. 

You will have opportunities to share your existing and developing skills, knowledge and experience.

Assessment

We will assess you with a variety of methods. Assessments give you an opportunity to demonstrate knowledge as well as the critical and reflective analysis required for professional practice.

Career prospects

Students who have completed similar vocational health and life sciences postgraduate certificate courses have been employed within their speciality both locally and nationally. This course enables you as a practitioner to work through the Agenda for Change grading bands to further your career progression.

Visit the Emergency Nursing Practice - PgCert page on the Oxford Brookes University website for more details!