BSc (Honours) Community Specialist Practice Primary Care Nursing/District Nursing
Full-time, Part-time
Location • Collegiate Campus
Subject area • Nursing and midwifery
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This post-registration course helps you specialise in the growing area of district nursing. It reflects the changes in primary care with a focus on reducing inequalities and offering a greater variety of services for patients and carers in settings closer to home.
Building on your knowledge and experience, the course develops your leadership skills to initiate, implement and manage delivery of healthcare services.
You look at the key features of teamwork, partnership and collaboration between professional agencies, communities and individuals so that you can work effectively with them.
We have partnerships with healthcare organisations to deliver modern and diverse placements that meet the changing needs of primary care.
This course is available to study full-time or part-time. You can also study individual modules as stand alone units for continuing professional development.
Study individual modules
You can study individual modules from this course and gain academic credit towards a qualification. Visit our continuing professional development website for more information.
Find out more about BSc (Honours) Community Specialist Practice Primary Care Nursing/District Nursing
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Full-time forty four weeks
Part-time forty weeks study typically over two years
Starts September 2011
Places on the course are limited to NHS-funded student health visitors and school nurses. 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. Download an application form from www.shu.ac.uk/study/form
Contact us for further information.
2013/14 academic year
The Department of Health normally funds this course. Further information is available on the NHS Employers' website. If you are a self-funding student, the typical fee is £4,500 a year based on 60 credits.
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.
