Primary Care
Postgraduate/Post-Registration
Specialist Community Nursing
This course is designed to enable NMC registered nurses to take a strategic lead in advancing specialist community nursing. The programme fosters effective collaboration across various disciplines and agencies, all with the goal of enhancing the health and well-being of individuals, families, groups and communities.
The course leads to a recordable qualification with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and professional recognition as a Specialist Community Nurse. The course is also mapped to the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) field specific standards for the community nursing specialist practitioner qualification.
Students can choose to undertake the Specialist Community Nursing courses either with or without integrated Nurse Independent / Supplementary Prescribing (V300). Independent Nurse prescribing is integrated into the programme and cannot be awarded as a separate qualification.
There are three different pathways:
Specialist Community Public Health Nursing
The Postgraduate Diploma (PgDip) empowers NMC-registered nurses and midwives to take a strategic lead in advancing specialist community public health nursing. This programme fosters effective collaboration across various disciplines and agencies, all with the goal of enhancing the health and well-being of infants, children, families, groups, and communities.
The programme fulfils the education and professional Standards of Proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nurses developed by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2022) and Standards for post-registration programmes (2022). The programme leads to a registrable qualification with the Nursing and Midwifery Council and professional recognition in specialist community public health nursing in either health visiting or school nursing.
Health Visiting and School Nursing professionals play distinct roles in the community, and this programme is designed to support you in your specific path: