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Birmingham City University: Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse)
| Institution | Birmingham City University |
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| Department | School of Nursing and Midwifery |
| Web | http://www.bcu.ac.uk |
| courseenquiries@bcu.ac.uk | |
| Telephone | 0121 331 6295 |
| Study type | Taught |
Postgraduate Diploma - PgDip
Summary
Do you have a desire become a School Nurse? The Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) course is aimed at registered nurses or midwives who wish to develop their knowledge and skills within the context of Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (School Nursing).
What's covered in this course? As a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, School Nurses uphold school-aged children's and young people's rights. They provide a collaborative, culturally appropriate, personalised, evidence-based, and inclusive service that advocates for the optimum health of all school-aged children and young people.
As a School Nurse, you will understand the wider determinants of health and the impact these can have on individuals across their lifetime, allowing you to address health inequalities through health education, health promotion, and evidence-based interventions that are age and maturity appropriate.
Our Specialist Community Public Health Nursing – School Nursing course is underpinned by research and evidence and provides you with a balance of academic and practical learning opportunities. The course has been co-produced with people who have experience of the service and practice partners who will support you in your learning in practice. The course will help you develop as an autonomous practitioner in public health and adopt a life-course approach to your evolving practice. You will also acquire skills to effect change that reduces health inequalities.
Your learning and development will be supported by academic assessors, practice assessors, and practice supervisors in line with NMC guidelines (2023).
Upon completion of the course, our aim is for you to be able to demonstrate the development of your knowledge, skills, and behaviours by achieving the NMC Standards of Proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (NMC, 2022) reflecting the six spheres of influence:
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Autonomous specialist community public health nursing practice.
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Transforming specialist community public health nursing practice: evidence, research, evaluation and translation.
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Promoting human rights and addressing inequalities: assessment, surveillance and intervention.
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Population health: enabling, supporting and improving health outcomes of people across the life course
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Advancing public health services and promoting healthy places, environments and cultures.
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Leading and collaborating: from investment to action and dissemination
Successful completion of the course will make you eligible to register your qualification with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and lead to professional recognition in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing in School Nursing.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
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| Entry requirements | Please see the university website course page for information on entry requirements for this course. |
| Location | City South Campus, Edgbaston Westbourne Road Birmingham B15 3TN |
Summary
Do you have a desire become a School Nurse? The Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) course is aimed at registered nurses or midwives who wish to develop their knowledge and skills within the context of Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (School Nursing).
What's covered in this course? As a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, School Nurses uphold school-aged children's and young people's rights. They provide a collaborative, culturally appropriate, personalised, evidence-based, and inclusive service that advocates for the optimum health of all school-aged children and young people.
As a School Nurse, you will understand the wider determinants of health and the impact these can have on individuals across their lifetime, allowing you to address health inequalities through health education, health promotion, and evidence-based interventions that are age and maturity appropriate.
Our Specialist Community Public Health Nursing – School Nursing course is underpinned by research and evidence and provides you with a balance of academic and practical learning opportunities. The course has been co-produced with people who have experience of the service and practice partners who will support you in your learning in practice. The course will help you develop as an autonomous practitioner in public health and adopt a life-course approach to your evolving practice. You will also acquire skills to effect change that reduces health inequalities.
Your learning and development will be supported by academic assessors, practice assessors, and practice supervisors in line with NMC guidelines (2023).
Upon completion of the course, our aim is for you to be able to demonstrate the development of your knowledge, skills, and behaviours by achieving the NMC Standards of Proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (NMC, 2022) reflecting the six spheres of influence:
-
Autonomous specialist community public health nursing practice.
-
Transforming specialist community public health nursing practice: evidence, research, evaluation and translation.
-
Promoting human rights and addressing inequalities: assessment, surveillance and intervention.
-
Population health: enabling, supporting and improving health outcomes of people across the life course
-
Advancing public health services and promoting healthy places, environments and cultures.
-
Leading and collaborating: from investment to action and dissemination
Successful completion of the course will make you eligible to register your qualification with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and lead to professional recognition in Specialist Community Public Health Nursing in School Nursing.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | Please see the university website course page for information on entry requirements for this course. |
| Location | City South Campus, Edgbaston Westbourne Road Birmingham B15 3TN |
Summary
Do you have a desire become a School Nurse? Our programme will help you fulfil your career ambitions. This engaging course will train you to become a knowledgeable and skilled health care practitioner and successful completion makes you eligibility for entry onto the Specialist Community Public Health Nurse part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s register.
Delivered as 50 per cent theory and 50 per cent practice, you'll develop a broad knowledge of the complex issues of specialist practice.
What's covered in the course?
The aim of this course is to train you as a practitioner who can maintain and improve the health of defined social groups and populations through the use of best available evidence, reflective practice and practical, hands-on experience.
You’ll work to ensure protection of the public is assured by using best practice that works within the boundaries of the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s Code of Professional Conduct. We and our trust partners will ensure that you are fit for practice, fit for the award and fit for professional standing.
You’ll promote public health practice, develop evidence-based public health knowledge and skills, and promote inter-professional learning. We will prepare to practice safely and effectively from a health focus, within a public health context.
The knowledge and skills you develop will be reflected in your ability to meet the NMC standards of proficiency, incorporating the ten key areas of public health practice. You will gain the skills you’ll need to influence policies affecting health and facilitate health-enhancing activities.
Graduates from this Specialist Community Public Health Nursing School Nurse course have progressed into roles with organisations such as Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Trust, working as public health nurses and school nurses.
| Level | RQF Level 7 |
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| Entry requirements | First level registration with the NMC (one year's post-registration experience ideal) If awaiting confirmation of registration, there must be evidence of successful completion of a pre-registration nursing or midwifery programme and evidence of application for NMC registration. |
| Location | City South Campus, Edgbaston Westbourne Road Birmingham B15 3TN |
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