PG Dip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting or School Nursing)
Anglia Ruskin University
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IntroductionTake your nursing or midwifery qualifications a step further by learning to provide support for children and families at household, school and population level. As a specialist community public health nurse, you’ll focus on preventing ill-health, improving health and wellbeing, and reducing health inequalities. By studying at ARU, you’ll learn how to assess, identify and manage health conditions and developmental issues in 0-19 year-olds. You’ll have the opportunity to expand your ...Read more

Introduction

Take your nursing or midwifery qualifications a step further by learning to provide support for children and families at household, school and population level. As a specialist community public health nurse, you’ll focus on preventing ill-health, improving health and wellbeing, and reducing health inequalities. By studying at ARU, you’ll learn how to assess, identify and manage health conditions and developmental issues in 0-19 year-olds. You’ll have the opportunity to expand your responsibilities too, with our Nurse Prescribing module. With an eye on your future career, you’ll also develop leadership skills that will help you advocate on behalf of children and families, and commission services.

As a Public Health Nursing student at ARU, your focus will be on supporting children, young people and their families in the community. As well as learning how assess and manage vulnerability and risk, you’ll advance your communication skills in order to provide the best possible care. Alongside studying the fundamentals of health visiting and school nursing, you’ll refine your research skills and understanding of policy and legislation, and apply these to your practice. Our innovative postgraduate course combines theory and practice, with one to two days each week on campus in Cambridge, and one to three days out on placement. There’s also a ten-week consolidatory placement at the end of the course. Upon successful completion of our PG Dip Specialist Community Public Health Nursing, you’ll be eligible for part three NMC registration – and ready to start work as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse.

How you'll be assessed

We’ll assess you using essays, case studies, a critical incident analysis, a competency-based portfolio and a critical policy reviews.

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Upon successful completion of our postgraduate course, you’ll be qualified to work as a specialist community public health nurse and be eligible for part three NMC registration. As a specialist community public health nurse you’ll be ready to work in the community, promoting the health of children and families; or as a school nurse. You might also work in the wider field of public health, for example, in community development work. Or you could use your new research and leadership skills, and knowledge and understanding of policy, in other roles in public health, safeguarding, and primary care and community agencies.

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Liezel
29 Jan 24

As a second-year student at ARU, I've found the course content to be engaging and the professors to be knowledgeable and approachable. The campus facilities are well-maintained...Read more

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Sree Lakshmi
30 Nov 23

Excellent..Read more

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Applicants would normally hold a Bachelor's degree of a good standard and have current NMC registration on part 1 or 2 of the register.

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As a second-year student at ARU, I've found the course content to be engaging and the professors to be knowledgeable and approachable. The campus facilities are well-maintained....
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Anglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin University , Cambridge

The Times Higher Education University of the Year (2023), Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) offers gold standard teaching (TEF, 2023)...

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