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Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting or School Nursing) - PgDip


Oxford Brookes University    Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery

Full time & Part time September PGDip 1 year full time, 2 years part time

About the course

Our innovative Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting or School Nursing) course enables you to develop your practice as a specialist public health nurse. You will finish the course as a collaborative public health practitioner, who is able to lead practice forward.

We believe that academic preparation is an integral part of practice development. So the course content reflects current issues in practice issues. And includes the exploration of high impact areas of contemporary public health across the fields of practice. 

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Entry Requirements

You must:

be registered on either the nursing or midwife (parts one or two of the NMC register)
be able to demonstrate evidence of recent study at level 6 on entry
have secured a student place within an NHS Trust which will ensure the following:

access to a community practice teacher and placement area
a source of NHS funding (employment) to enable payment of the course fees.


Fees

Funding is secured via application to an NHS Trust for a student post for the 52 week course (Student School Nurse or Student Health Visitor); this will involve an application to NHS jobs for the student vacancy followed by a joint interview with a community NHS Trust and the University.

 Course Content


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