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Postgraduate Diploma Specialist Practitioner - District Nursing

UK

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What will I learn?

Overview

This program is grounded in three core values:

  • The delivery of patient and family-centered care.
  • Student-centered learning.
  • Practice-focused development.

Additional contributory values include collaboration, partnership, professional expertise, and innovation. These values shape and inform both the theory and practice to ensure the delivery of high-quality care in a rapidly changing and diverse primary care environment.

Practitioners who enroll in this program will be highly motivated and demonstrate a strong commitment to developing District/Home Nursing practice through the integration of critically appraised evidence with professional expertise. It is expected that students will bring a wealth of previous experience that will be utilized, challenged, and built upon. The program adopts a facilitative approach to learning, with a focus on supporting the practice element at the core of the program.

The curriculum of this program has been developed to prepare practitioners to meet the demands of advanced practice in the contemporary context of primary health care. All modules are mandatory and align with the Standards for Specialist Education and Practice (District Nursing), endorsed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council. They are also mapped against the education and practice standards developed for District Nursing by the Queen's Nursing Institute (2015).

The core learning outcomes specified by the NMC SPQ standards encompass:

  • Clinical nursing practice.
  • Care and program management.
  • Clinical practice leadership.
  • Clinical practice development.

The 4 Domains of the QNI/QNIS standards for District Nursing are:

  • Clinical Care.
  • Leadership and Operational Management.
  • Facilitation of Learning.
  • Evidence, Research, and Development.

Which department am I in?

School of Technologies, Business and Arts

Study options

Full Time (1 year)

Tuition fees
£9,720.00 (10,59,054) per year
This is a fixed fee
Start date

March 2025

Venue

University of Suffolk Ipswich

Waterfront Building,

Neptune Quay,

Ipswich,

Suffolk,

IP4 1QJ, CENTRAL ENGLAND, England

Entry requirements

For international students

Students need an honours degree normally at 2:2 or above, registration on Part One of the NMC Register, three years post registration experience, of these three years, the year immediately preceding application to the programme must have been in the primary care setting. IELTS (Academic or UKVI) 7.0 overall, and a minimum of 6.5 in each component, unless stated otherwise on the specific course page, TOEFL iBT (including TOEFL iBT Home Edition) overall score of 95 (with a minimum of 22 in reading, 20 in listening, 23 in speaking and 22 in writing).

*There may be different IELTS requirements depending on your chosen course.

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