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PGDip Community Nursing Specialist Practice Qualification (General Practice Nursing)

University of Wolverhampton

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University of Wolverhampton

Course options

3 options available

  • Qualification

    Postgraduate Diploma

  • Location

    City Campus (Wolverhampton)

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    22-SEP-25

  • Duration

    1 year

Course summary

Aims of the Course:

1. Develop competent, safe, and professional specialist community nurses who have a sound theoretical knowledge base and who are fit for practice in the designated field of general practice nursing.

2. Equip students with the knowledge, skills and understanding to evaluate, enhance, synthesise advanced levels of assessment of needs within the context of primary care and public health utilising biopsychosocial perspectives.

3. Develop and enhance leadership and management skills within the context of population health of primary care with focus on inclusion, equality, diversity, and cultural competence, promoting independence, and preventing ill health.

4. Advance knowledge and skills in complex clinical decision making, risk management and proactively advocate in partnership with people in their care.

5. Provide the opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary and inter-professional working practices to lead improvements for the services they work within.

6. Enable practitioners to adopt critical reflective practice and lifelong learning that fosters a spirit of scientific enquiry and evidence-based care that promotes personal and professional development.

7. Equip practitioners with cognitive knowledge and skills to lead, innovate and contribute to an evidence base of practice in order to benefit people and their communities.

8. Support students to work within professional codes and standards of practice to protect human rights and promote equality in the safe delivery of health care as independent autonomous practitioners.

9. Develop and integrate the underpinning theory and practice to prepare Specialist Community Nurses to prescribe safely, appropriately and cost effectively within their field of practice and utilising current supporting guidelines and frameworks.

Assessment Methods

At the University of Wolverhampton, a variety of modes of assessment will be used to support and test your learning and progress and to help you develop capabilities that are valued beyond your University studies and into your working life. Your course may include a variety of assessment activities: Written examinations (including online examinations, open and closed book examinations and quizzes) Coursework (for example, essays, reports, portfolios, project proposals and briefs, CVs, poster presentation) Practical (for example, oral and video presentations, laboratory work, performances, practical skills assessment) In the final year of your undergraduate degree, and at the end of your postgraduate degree, you are likely to be expected to write an extended piece of work or research, such as a dissertation or a practice-based piece of research.

Employability in the Curriculum:

This programme has been developed in conjunction with stakeholders/ practice partners and service users in order to reflect the increasing and rapidly changing complex environment in which health care takes place. The educational philosophy of the course aims to develop and demonstrate the qualities and transferable skills necessary for employment within general practice requiring: The exercise of initiative and personal responsibility Decision-making in complex and unpredictable situations The independent learning ability required for continuing professional development.

Tuition fees

Students living in Hong Kong
(International fees)

拢 14,950per year

Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.

University information

University of Wolverhampton

University of Wolverhampton

  • University League Table

    111th

  • Campus address

    University of Wolverhampton, Wulfruna Street, Wolverhampton, Wolverhampton, WV1 1LY, England

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Nursing & Midwifery

    64th out of 82 1

    21st out of 32 4

  • Entry standards

    / Max 208
    129 62%

    47th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    97.0 97%

    45th

    6

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.99 75%

    42nd

    12

  • Entry standards

    / Max 163
    104 64%

    21st

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    54.0 54%

    11th

    11

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    3.13 78%

    20th

    9

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