BSc (Honours) Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Health Visiting and School Nursing
Full-time, Part-time
This course is subject to approval
Location • Collegiate Campus
Subject area • Nursing and midwifery
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At a glance
Develop your qualifications as a registered nurse by specialising in community public health nursing. This course qualifies you as a registered specialist and enables you to take up a variety of community nursing positions working at an individual, family and community level.
Key points
Allows you to register as a specialist community public health nurse.
Develop skills to deal with the needs of disadvantaged and vulnerable people.
Benefit from a diverse range of placements thanks to local healthcare partnerships.
Study individual modules instead as part of a CPD programme.
What is health visiting and school nursing?
Health visitors and school nurses work within community health services to provide a high quality family centred public health service. They work with individual children, young people, families, schools and communities.
This involves planning and delivering services which promote the health of children, young people, their families, the school community and the wider community to improve health and tackle inequalities.
All staff within the health visiting and school nursing teams work jointly together with other statutory and voluntary agencies to safeguard the wellbeing of children and young people.
This course qualifies you as a registered specialist and enables you to take up a variety of community nursing positions working at an individual, family and community level.
As a registered nurse, you study changes in public health policy and legislation, and learn how to meet the needs of the local population in the way they want to be treated.
You build on your existing professional knowledge and experience, focusing on responding to the needs of disadvantaged and vulnerable people and recognising health inequalities. As well as gaining this specialist knowledge, you also develop your general knowledge and judgement in care and programme management, and in leadership and practice development.
When it comes to putting what you have learnt into practice, you benefit from strong partnerships with healthcare organisations in the region. The modern and diverse placements you go on are designed to meet the changing needs of primary care, and include placement with social services and the police force.
Key areas of study
Key areas include person-centred primary care behaviour change preventative approaches to safeguarding.
Study individual modules
You have the option to study individual modules from this course and gain academic credit towards a qualification. Visit our continuing professional development website for more information.
You can study this subject as an honours degree or take individual modules that are appropriate to your professional development.
Find out more about BSc (Honours) Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Health Visiting and School Nursing
Related courses
Full-time one year
Part-time typically two years
Places on the course are strictly limited to NHS-funded student health visitors and school nurses. Please check www.jobs.nhs.uk for details of available posts locally. You do not need to submit an application to Sheffield Hallam until you are invited to interview at an NHS Trust. For further information, please contact NursingandMidwifery@shu.ac.uk
2013/14 academic year
The Department of Health funds this course, subject to the students appointment to a student health visitor or student school nurse training post.
Further information is available on the NHS Employers' website.
The course fee may be subject to annual inflationary increase. For further information on fees and funding see www.shu.ac.uk/funding
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Mock hospital ward
The mock hospital ward at our Collegiate Campus gives students a hands on experience as it would be in a real hospital.
Together in the real world of health and social care
Our health and social care courses place a strong emphasis on interprofessional learning. This means that you train alongside practitioners from other health professions. So, depending on your course you could spend time working alongside
nurses
midwives
operating department practitioners
This gives you a fresh perspective on situations. And it also prepares you for the real world. Collaboration between health professionals is increasing as organisations try to provide a more integrated and effective service. At Sheffield Hallam we understand that by working together we can we give the best possible care.
