Faculty of Education, Health and Well being - Institute of Health - Postgraduate Booklet 19-20

INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing

THE UNIVERSIT Y OF OPPORTUNIT Y

INSTITUTE OF HEALTH Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing It’s an exciting time to be in the innovative and enterprising areas of Education, Health and Wellbeing. The Faculty supports over 450 researchengaged academic staff, as well as over 30 dedicated research staff, including Professors, Readers and Research Fellows.

Our teams are at the forefront of research and practice in their subjects and make a direct impact in many ways.

We have over 240 doctoral students, many of whom are studying for a Professional Doctorate and making a direct impact in their workplaces.

Many of our postgraduate courses can be studied part-time, offering you flexibility to balance your studies with other commitments.

INSTITUTE OF HEALTH In our Institute of Health, lifelong learning and CPD are valuable investments in career development and an essential requirement for professionals. Our CPD and postgraduate courses are designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills demanded by the sector, developing personal and professional practice and preparation for responsibility and leadership.

Full details of all courses and entry requirements can be found at: wlv.ac.uk/postgraduate

COURSES • Master of Adult Nursing (MAN) • Advanced Clinical Practice (MSc, PG Dip) • Commissioning for Health and Social Care (MSc, PG Dip, PG Cert) • Education for Health, Social Care and Allied Professionals (PG Cert) • Emergency Planning Resilience and Response (MSc, PG Dip, PG Cert) • Health (MPhil / PhD) • Master of Mental Health Nursing (MMHN) • Midwifery Studies (MSc) • Nursing (MSc, PG Cert) • Nursing (MPhil / PhD) • Palliative and End of Life Care (MSc, PG Cert)

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• Palliative and End of Life Care for Adults with Progressive Life-Limiting Diagnoses (MSc, PG Cert) • Lymphoedema Care (MSc) at Compton Care • Specialist Community Nursing (District Nursing) (PG Dip) • Specialist Community Nursing (General Practice Nursing) (PG Dip) • Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) (PG Dip) • Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (School Nursing) (PG Dip) • Teaching in Professional Practice (NMC Practice Teacher – Level 7) (PG credit 20)

MASTER OF ADULT NURSING MAN This course is designed to meet the needs of highly motivated graduates, looking to advance their career within the nursing profession.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON? This course has been closely developed with local Trust partners to reflect the increasing and rapidly changing requirements in patient care provision.

It will create autonomous nurses with the clinical and leadership skills to synthesise data that will optimise the best possible patient care for adults.

WHAT WILL I STUDY?

FULL-TIME: 2 years

LOCATION: City Campus

START: Semester 1

The course is split equally between a dynamic clinical practice environment and the academic setting of the University. It leads to professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC). Upon completion, you will be able to practise as a Registered Nurse in the field of adult nursing.

Graduates who do not have experience in clinical practice would be required to undertake practical experience as a graduate health care assistant from April. The course would commence the following September for all students.

You will gain nursing skills to manage safe, effective, evidence-

based care to patients through a range of relevant clinical placements, whilst undertaking the shift patterns of professional nurses. You will be supported by appropriately qualified mentors who will facilitate developing advanced caring skills and the ability to improve quality and drive healthcare services.

You will develop complex adult nursing practice skills from a variety of community and acute settings reflecting the key drivers within the health sector.

Academic mastery will be cultivated through enquiry-based learning approaches with opportunities for skills simulation in our laboratories.

Your learning will be supported by academic experts and researchers in the field of nursing and inter-professional learning with other healthcare disciplines.

OTHER COURSES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN: • Master of Mental Health Nursing (MMHN) • Nursing (MSc, PG Cert) • Nursing (MPhil / PhD)

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ADVANCED CLINICAL PRACTICE MSc, PG Dip

PART-TIME: 3 years

LOCATION: Walsall Campus

START: Semester 1

If your desire is to develop your clinical career to a higher level as an advanced practitioner, this course is for you. This course is open to practitioners registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) or the Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC).

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON? This course’s philosophy is to acknowledge your prior experience and knowledge as a health professional and subsequently enable you to fulfil your potential as a postgraduate through the development of new understanding, critical insight and advanced-level academic and clinical skills. The course has been developed in response to identified and anticipated demands for increasing the number of health professionals with advanced clinical skills and critical understanding.

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY? This programme will develop your knowledge and skills to work at an advanced level of clinical practice.

It has been designed around the current Health Education England West Midlands (HEEWM) competency framework (2015), a multidisciplinary framework which applies to all nonmedical healthcare professionals including nurses, midwives, pharmacists and allied health professionals.

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It is expected that, on completion of this course, you will be a recognised Advanced Clinical Practitioner with an expert knowledge base, complex decision-making skills and clinical competencies for expanded autonomous scope of practice, the characteristics of which are shaped by the context in which you practice.

WHAT WILL I STUDY? For the award of the Postgraduate Diploma, you will study six 20-credit modules. This can be followed by one 60-credit Independent Project module to achieve the MSc award.

OTHER COURSES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN: • Master of Mental Health Nursing (MMHN) • Master of Adult Nursing (MAN) • Nursing (MSc, PG Cert) • Nursing (MPhil / PhD)

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COMMISSIONING FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE MSc, PG Dip, PG Cert

PART-TIME: 2 years

LOCATION: City Campus

The learning environment in particular is very welcoming and supportive; I couldn’t recommend a better university than Wolverhampton. Professionals working in the Black Country can access a highly credible course that a lot of employers are seeking on applications.

START: Semester 1

GRAEME O’MALLEY, MSC COMMISSIONING FOR HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE

We have worked closely with senior NHS and local government commissioning staff to develop this work-based, applied course for staff working in or with public services.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON? This course will equip you with the concepts, theories, academic and practical skills that you will require to be an effective and efficient commissioner.

It offers a flexible approach to learning with options to study one module at a time or as a whole course.

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wide range of professional and other key stakeholders and organisations involved in the commissioning process.

WHAT WILL I STUDY? Designed with current practitioners in mind, the course is a mixture of blended and face-to-face learning delivered around the needs of the individual and their employer.

PG Certificate • Theories and Models of Commissioning • Applied Commissioning

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY?

• Work-based Learning

You will develop a sound working knowledge of the principles and practice of commissioning for health and social care and the underpinning policy. You will develop valuable skills in communication and strategic leadership. You will also develop a wide range of inter-personal skills for effective use in multi-agency teams. There will be opportunities to take part in module activities with a

• Leading and Delivering Quality Through Commissioning

PG Diploma • Marketing Shaping and Mapping

• Advanced Research Skills MSc Dissertation – choose from: • Research dissertation • Evidence-based practice project • Consultancy project

EDUCATION FOR HEALTH, SOCIAL CARE AND ALLIED PROFESSIONALS PG Cert Everyone is very friendly. I kind of get it now, it’s all about learning not about teaching. And that’s how the course team have taught us; they established our learning constructs. I would recommend this course and I hope to come back and teach here!

AMANDA LEISHENRING, FORMER PG CERT ED STUDENT, NOW VISITING LECTURER WITHIN THE INSTITUTE

This course enables you to achieve a professional teaching qualification whether you are a nurse, midwife or allied health professional.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON?

WHAT WILL I STUDY?

This course was developed collaboratively to capture a broad range of expertise and promote the highest standards and suitability.

The course aims to develop your knowledge and skills for teaching so that you can facilitate and manage learning and assessment at higher education level within a health or social care context.

It also aims to be sufficiently flexible to enable you to develop specific expertise which can be applied to the complexities of your professional practice area.

The course is delivered by the Institute of Health which has established an excellent reputation for the quality of its courses, its innovative approaches to learning and teaching, and for the friendliness of its staff.

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY?

PART-TIME: 1 year

LOCATION: Walsall Campus

START: Semester 1

Successful completion of this course will enable you to pursue a professional teaching career within higher education.

The programme is approved by the Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) and meets the NMC teacher standards.

The course has also been aligned to the educational needs of allied health professionals wishing to gain a professional teaching qualification.

Students who successfully complete the PGCE are eligible to apply for fellowship status with the Higher Education Academy, now part of Advance HE.

A range of blended learning and teaching activities will be employed to enable you to explore a range of educational frameworks. You will do this by undertaking the following three modules of study: • Professional Teaching Practice • Learning, Teaching and Assessing in Health & Social Care • Facilitating the Learning Journey.

HOW WILL I BE ASSESSED? A wide range of assessment tools are used within the course to promote inclusivity. Typically these include: writing an essay, developing a reflective account, undertaking a presentation, an observation of your interaction with others, the development of detailed session planners, and compiling an electronic portfolio.

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EMERGENCY PLANNING RESILIENCE AND RESPONSE MSc, PG Dip, PG Cert There is a wide range of guest lecturers both Academics and Practitioners who are experts in their field and the course is an excellent mixture of theory and practical application.

JOHN WOODHALL, EMERGENCY PLANNING RESILIENCE AND RESPONSE

FULL-TIME: MSc: 1 year PG Diploma: 1 year

PART-TIME: MSc: 2-3 years PG Diploma: 2 years PG Certificate: 1 year

LOCATION: Telford (open to everyone); or DMS Whittington (uniformed or civilian military personnel only)

START: Semester 1

Emergencies and disasters have increased globally over the past 20 years and this trend is set to remain high. Organisations across the UK including the National Health Service (NHS), the emergency services, local government, HM Armed Forces and the private sector need to develop the ability to respond to a variety of major incidents and to manage recovery locally, regionally, nationally and/or internationally within the context of the UK Civil Contingencies Act (2004) and other international legislation.

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY?

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON?

Examples of modules/subjects on the course include emergency planning foundations and frameworks, communicating in disasters, disaster causation and consequence management, business continuity and resilience, and emergency planning as a profession. A dissertation on an emergency planning/ business continuity subject of your choice is core for MSc students.

This course provides you with an opportunity for you to develop postgraduate level education in the concepts, theories and academic skills for emergency planning, resilience, business continuity and disaster management and recovery.

The course has a UK focus, whilst also allowing for learning from other countries and international disasters to be harnessed. A specific intention is to engage the academic subject matter with the realities of the job role.

Career opportunities exist for working in the field of emergency planning at local, regional, national and international levels within the public, private, voluntary and other sectors. This course will expose you to the advanced underpinning theories, principles and concepts of emergency planning resilience and response, and enable you to engage with strategic and national and international guidelines in practice.

WHAT WILL I STUDY?

HOW WILL I BE ASSESSED? You will be assessed through a combination of coursework, presentations and dissertation.

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HEALTH MPhil, PhD

FULL-TIME: MPhil: Up to 2 years PhD: Up to 4 years

PART-TIME: MPhil: Up to 4 years PhD: Up to 8 years

We offer supervision for PhD research in a range of health areas.

The team has experience of fulltime and part-time learners, mature professionals and overseas students.

Many of our research supervisors have internationally recognised expertise in a range of research methodologies and frequently work across subject areas, which means research supervision can take place around the intersections of (for example) education, health, sport, and psychology.

We support students with a vibrant seminar and workshop calendar of events.

Email: fehwresearch@wlv.ac.uk for more information.

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LOCATION: City Campus

START: Any time throughout the year

MASTER OF MENTAL HEALTH NURSING MMHN This course is designed to meet the needs of highly motivated graduates looking to rapidly advance their career within the nursing profession.

It has been closely developed with local Trust partners to reflect the increasing and rapidly changing requirements in patient care provision.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON? The MMHN will create autonomous nurses with the clinical and leadership skills to synthesise data that will optimise the best possible patient care for people with mental illness.

FULL-TIME: 2 years

LOCATION: City Campus

START: Semester 1

The course focuses on the acquisition of nursing skills in order to manage safe, effective, evidence-based care to patients, through a range of relevant clinical placements, whilst undertaking the shift patterns of professional nurses.

You will be supported by appropriately qualified mentors. This will facilitate your development of advanced caring skills and the ability to improve quality and drive healthcare services.

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY? Graduates who do not have experience in clinical practice would be required to undertake practical experience as a graduate health care assistant from April. The course would commence the following September for all students.

This course is also suitable for existing

graduate Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registrants wishing to undertake a second registration at Master’s level in the field of mental health nursing.

WHAT WILL I STUDY? The course is split equally between a clinical practice environment and the academic setting of the University. The MMHN leads to professional registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), as well as a Master’s degree.

Upon completion of the course, you will be able to practise as a Registered Nurse in the field of Mental Health Nursing.

The development of complex mental health nursing practice will be acquired from a variety of community and acute settings reflecting the key drivers within the health sector. Academic mastery will be cultivated through problem-based learning approaches with opportunities for skills simulation in our laboratories.

Your learning is supported by academic experts and researchers in the field of nursing and inter-professional learning with other healthcare disciplines.

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MIDWIFERY STUDIES MSc

PART-TIME: 2 years

LOCATION: Walsall

START: Semester 1 This programme will provide you with a critical insight into contemporary and global midwifery issues that will challenge and develop your professional practice.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON?

WHAT WILL I STUDY?

This course will contribute to the enhancement of health and social care through inter-professional collaboration.

It will also develop your skills to act as an advocate and facilitator for change using an evidence-based approach.

Typical modules include:

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY?

• Leadership and Management

At the end of this course you will be able to:

• Service Improvement Project

• demonstrate comprehensive critical knowledge, skills and understanding of the theories, concepts and midwifery practice in both the national and international arena

• Decision Making for Advanced Practice

• Promoting Normality in Childbirth • Challenges to Midwifery • Examination of the New Born • Contraception and Sexual Health • Evolving Health and Social Care Agenda • Global and International Perspectives in Midwifery • Advanced Enquiry for Nurses, Midwives and Allied Health Professionals

• demonstrate autonomous, independent learning and problem-solving to sustain and advance your continuing professional development

• Leadership and Management

• develop originality, critical objective judgements, and complex decision-making to enable you to make innovative use of evidence for best midwifery practice

• Consultancy Project

• develop enhanced skills to effectively collaborate with inter-professional agencies.

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• The Critical Professional • Evidence-based Practice Project • Research Dissertation

NURSING MSc, PG Cert This course aims to develop you as a Registered Nurse (RN) and a flexible and adaptable practitioner, enabling you to engage in new ways of working in relation to healthcare priorities, and lead and develop practice to ensure patient safeguarding.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON? Through this course, you will develop a range of core nursing qualities such as caring, compassion, higher level understanding and managing the complexities of nursing work within a constantly evolving health environment.

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY?

FULL-TIME: 1 year

PART-TIME: MSc: 2 years PG Cert: 1 year

LOCATION: Walsall Campus

START: Semester 1

Attainment of an MSc in Nursing in today’s healthcare environment provides nationally and internationally recognised eligibility to apply for higher level clinical, educational, leadership and management roles within the NHS, private healthcare provider organisations and overseas healthcare organisations.

WHAT WILL I STUDY? There are three potential pathways for this course: Postgraduate Certificate in Nursing, Postgraduate Certificate in Clinical Specialist Nursing and Postgraduate Certificate in Service Improvement. Each offers modules tailored to professionals working in these pathways.

OTHER COURSES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN: • Specialist Community Nursing (District Nursing) (PG Dip) • Specialist Community Nursing (General Practice Nursing) (PG Dip) • Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) (PG Dip) • Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (School Nursing) (PG Dip)

I enjoyed the MSc Nursing; acquiring new knowledge, having structured learning and meeting a variety of people.

MARSHA DALEY, MSC NURSING

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NURSING MPhil, PhD We offer supervision for PhD research in a range of nursing areas. The team has experience of full-time and part-time learners, mature professionals and overseas students.

Many of our research supervisors have internationally recognised expertise in a range of research methodologies and frequently work across subject areas,

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FULL-TIME: MPhil: Up to 2 years PhD: Up to 4 years

PART-TIME: which means research supervision can take place around the intersections of (for example) education, health, sport, and psychology. We support students with a vibrant seminar and workshop calendar of events.

Contact fehwresearch@wlv.ac.uk for more information.

MPhil: Up to 4 years PhD: Up to 8 years

LOCATION: City Campus

START: Any time throughout the year

PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE CARE MSc, PG Cert This course provides you with an opportunity to develop Master’s-level education in relation to palliative and end of life care and apply this to your area of practice in health and/or social care.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON? Compton Care’s Education and Training Centre has a well-established tradition of offering high-quality, research-based, specialist modules in palliative and end of life care for over 20 years. The specialist and experienced team of knowledgeable lecturer-practitioners maintain clinical links in order to offer the most contemporary approaches to symptom management and other interventions in palliative and end of life care.

PART-TIME: MSc: 3 or 4 years PG Certificate: 1 year

LOCATION: Compton Care, Wolverhampton

START: Semester 1

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY? Our track record shows that many professional practitioners who have been awarded specialist palliative and end of life care awards have successfully gone on to influence the direction in which palliative and end of life care has taken in their organisation.

with a life-limiting progressive illness requiring palliative and end of life care.

WHAT WILL I STUDY? The course is based on the underlying principles and theories in the specialist area of palliative and end of life care, drawing on local and national policies and guidelines.

It includes a range of modules that explicitly explore traditional and contemporary issues/factors around palliative and end of life care delivery.

OTHER COURSES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN: • Palliative and End of Life Care for Adults with Progressive Life-Limiting Diagnoses (MSc, PG Cert)

The course enables practitioners to demonstrate expertise and advanced skills in the management of a caseload and/or managing health or social care staff in relation to people

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PALLIATIVE AND END OF LIFE CARE FOR ADULTS WITH PROGRESSIVE LIFELIMITING DIAGNOSES MSc, PG Cert

PART-TIME: MSc: 3 or 4 years PG Certificate: 1 year

LOCATION: Compton Care, Wolverhampton

START: Term 1, Term 2, or Term 3

This is a multi-professional course designed to appeal to future leaders of palliative and end of life care. It enables professionals from a wide range of clinical, health and social care backgrounds to synthesise their experience.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON?

Optional modules – choose two:

Our flexible delivery enables you to continue in practice whilst benefitting from part-time study. The course’s philosophy is to acknowledge your prior experience and knowledge as a qualified practitioner and enable you to fulfil your potential through developing new understanding, critical insight and advanced-level skills.

• Challenges and Opportunities: The Power of Policy in the Delivery of Palliative Care

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY?

• The Impact of Frailty for an Ageing Population

In today’s health and social care environment, this course equips you to apply for higher level clinical, educational, leadership or management roles within a variety of care settings.

The programme has been developed in response to current national policy and guidance for an increasing ageing population with multiple comorbidities.

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• The Capacity and Influence of Advanced Communication in the Assessment of Psychopathology • Supporting the Adaption and Adjustment to Loss and Change • Impact of Dementia

MSc Core module: • Critical Awareness of Research or Advanced Enquiry for Nurses and Allied Health Professionals In addition, you will need to study two modules from the options above and one of the following: • Dissertation

WHAT WILL I STUDY?

• Evidence-based Practice Project

Modules typically include:

• Consultancy Project

Postgraduate Certificate Core module:

OTHER COURSES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN:

• Developing the Scope of Practice for Adults with Life-Limiting Diagnoses

• Palliative and End of Life Care (MSc, PG Cert)

LYMPHOEDEMA CARE MSc Studying this award will provide you with the knowledge, understanding and skills in the principles and practice of holistic palliative and end of life care, and you will have the opportunity to critically analyse local and national influences on care and their implications for service delivery.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON? • Opportunities for inter-disciplinary learning; inter-disciplinary working is vital to employment within the increasingly integrated health and social care arena.

• A friendly, helpful and studentfocused team of academic and administrative staff.

• Delivered by subject specialists who are involved in significant education and advisory roles within health and social care

PART-TIME: 3 years

LOCATION: Compton Care, Wolverhampton

START: Semester 1

locally, regionally and nationally, and who participate in national communities of practice, developing and sharing expertise across the UK and beyond.

• Links and knowledge from local, national and international research initiatives undertaken in the Faculty of Education, Health and Wellbeing and the wider University research institutions.

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY? This award is aimed at supporting opportunities for health and social care professionals to function with confidence in contemporary healthcare. Lymphoedema is about working across existing boundaries, moving into a new area of professional care, and consolidating new roles for a range of health and social care professionals who are involved in supporting people with hereditary, progressive and/ or incurable diseases. In line with the National Service Framework for Long Term Conditions (DoH 2005), the award has been specifically designed to equip health and social care professionals with the necessary knowledge and skills to constructively challenge, inform and lead the development of health and social care provision for people with a life-limiting, progressive and incurable illness.

WHAT WILL I STUDY? • Develop a range of advanced communication skills to enable practitioners to communicate effectively with patients, colleagues and other members of the multi-professional team.

• Demonstrate a range of transferable academic, professional and personal skills appropriate to a career in lymphoedema care.

• Develop advanced-level skills in the critical appraisal of research and design, implement and evaluate a substantial piece of academic or evidence-based practice research within the field of lymphoedema care.

• Demonstrate a comprehensive awareness of the drivers of service provision and improvement within lymphoedema care.

• Demonstrate critically the ethical and philosophical principles of providing care to individuals (and their significant others) with a life-limiting progressive illness.

OTHER COURSES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN: • Palliative and End of Life Care (MSc, PG Cert) • Palliative and End of Life Care for Adults with Progressive LifeLimiting Diagnoses (MSc, PG Cert)

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SPECIALIST COMMUNITY NURSING (DISTRICT NURSING) PG Dip This course develops your skills as a specialist practitioner who can combine theory and practice to improve and develop knowledge and skills in District Nursing.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON? You will gain the necessary intellectual insight needed to evaluate the economic, social and political influences that affect all aspects of healthcare.

The programme focuses on enabling the monitoring and improvement of standards of healthcare through the supervision of practice, clinical audit, development of practice through research, teaching and the support of professional colleagues, through the provision of skilled professional leadership.

FULL-TIME: 9 months

PART-TIME: 2 years

LOCATION: City Campus

START: Semester 1

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY? Preparing you to play a proactive role within your specialist area of practice, this is a professional course incorporating a practice component.

This course equips you with the skills required to become a Specialist Community Healthcare Nurse, proficient in Specialist Practice Nursing. You will be both academically and professionally prepared to practice as a member of the multi-disciplinary team.

On successful completion of the course, you will be able to register your qualification with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

WHAT WILL I STUDY? The practice placement takes place throughout the programme and culminates in a 10-week block at the end of the course. Practice is normally carried out within your place of work.

There are core modules that are shared by all students and specialist modules.

It may be possible to undertake the programme over a longer period of time.

The core modules and the specialist modules are designed for the development of practice, as well as facilitating generalist, specialist and multi-agency approaches.

OTHER COURSES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN: Following successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma course, you will be able to apply to undertake a final dissertation module (60 credits) enabling you to complete a Master’s in Primary Health Care.

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SPECIALIST COMMUNITY NURSING (GENERAL PRACTICE NURSING) PG Dip

FULL-TIME: 9 months

PART-TIME: 2 years

LOCATION: City Campus

START: Semester 1

This course develops you as a safe, competent and Professional Specialist Community Nurse, fit for practice in the field of General Practice Nursing. On successful completion of the course, you will be able to register as a Specialist Practitioner on the NMC Register.

This course has given me more confidence within my role as a General Practice Nurse.

I particularly enjoyed the leadership module as it has enabled me to be more innovative within my workplace.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON?

WHAT WILL I STUDY?

Networking between students is encouraged and the extensive support offered to students is considered to be a strength of this course. Students are also visited individually in practice by a member of the course team to provide additional support.

• Research and Inquiry in Specialist Practice

We have a designated full-time member of staff who acts as a course leader with expertise in the specific field of practice that the student is studying, as well as the experience of working as a practitioner in the same specialist area.

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY? This course enables you to become a qualified Specialist Practitioner in General Practice Nursing, and by the end of the course you will be able to record this qualification with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).

You will have specific skills in relation to health assessment and triage.

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• Specialist Community Nursing Practice General Practice and District Nursing • Advanced Perspectives of Public Health and Social Policy in Specialist Practice • Health Assessment and Examination Skills Within Clinical Practice • Advancing Practice Through Leadership and Innovation • Clinical Appraisal of Primary Health Care Provision or Triage in Practice

HOW WILL I BE ASSESSED? Throughout the course there are a variety of assessment methods including written essays, case studies, case management plans, presentations and written reports. You will also need to complete a clinical practice document.

OTHER COURSES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN: Following successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma course, you will be able to apply to undertake a final dissertation module (60 credits) enabling you to complete a Master’s in Primary Health Care.

SPECIALIST COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING (HEALTH VISITING) PG Dip This course aims to develop your skills as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor) fit for practice in a designated field of primary care. You will be equipped with the skills to evaluate, enhance and develop your public health practice and create and develop leadership skills within the context of Public Health Nursing Practice.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON? The Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (Health Visiting) course is widely regarded as being one of the best and most dynamic in the country and consistently attracts students from a wide area. The support received from tutors is extensive and a hallmark of the course.

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY?

FULL-TIME: 9 months

PART-TIME: 2 years

LOCATION:

On completion of the course, you will be added to the third part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Register to practise as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (Health Visitor).

Further career opportunities are available in specialist clinical roles, education and management.

City Campus

WHAT WILL I STUDY?

START:

Students are usually seconded by their employer to study for this pathway.

Semester 1

public health and health promotion, and is designed to encourage the empowerment of patients and clients.

You will be taught how to adopt reflective practice and lifelong learning that allow you to develop your intellectual skills and promote personal and professional development. You will learn about Codes of Professional Conduct to protect human rights and equality in the delivery of healthcare.

You will need to have secured employment with an NHS Trust as a student health visitor in order to gain a place on this course.

OTHER COURSES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN: Following successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma course, you will be able to apply to undertake a final dissertation module (60 credits) enabling you to complete a Master’s in Primary Health Care.

You will focus on educational issues that are related to primary healthcare; study takes place in a community setting.

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SPECIALIST COMMUNITY PUBLIC HEALTH NURSING (SCHOOL NURSING) PG Dip

FULL-TIME: 9 months

PART-TIME: 2 years

LOCATION: City Campus

START: Semester 1

This course aims to develop you as a safe, competent and professional Specialist Community Public Health Nursing practitioner, fit for practice in the designated field of School Nursing.

I would recommend this course to all nurses working in school health.

The things that I have learnt on this course I now use every day in my professional practice. The support you get from the University tutors is fantastic.

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON?

WHAT WILL I STUDY?

The School Nursing award has a designated full-time member of staff who acts as course leader with expertise in the specific field of practice that the student is studying, as well as experience of working as a practitioner in the same specialist area.

Students are usually seconded or sponsored by a Primary Care Trust to study for this pathway.

Innovation on the course is strongly encouraged and several school nursing students have gone on to win regional and national awards for work initiated on the course.

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY? On successful completion of the course, you will be able to register on the third part of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Register as a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (School Nurse).

Further career opportunities are available in specialist clinical roles, education and management.

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You will focus on educational issues that are related to school nursing, public health and primary healthcare.

The course is 50% theory and 50% practice, and learning experiences also take place in a community setting.

HOW WILL I BE ASSESSED? Throughout the course there are a variety of assessment methods including written essays, case studies, presentations, an examination and written reports. You will also need to complete a clinical practice document.

OTHER COURSES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN: Following successful completion of the Postgraduate Diploma course you will be able to apply to undertake a final dissertation module (60 credits) enabling you to complete a Master’s in Primary Health Care.

TEACHING IN PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE (NMC PRACTICE TEACHER – LEVEL 7) PG credit 20 Students have reported that the module was very good and enabled them to critically assess the ongoing needs of their specialist practice student and provide evidence-based learning outcomes. The module also supported their leadership skills in clinical practice.

PART-TIME: 1 year

LOCATION: City Campus

START: Semester 1

This highly commended course aims to develop the knowledge and skills of the registrant wishing to facilitate learning in practice through the supervision and assessment of students who are undertaking NMC-approved Specialist Community Public Health Nursing programmes.

WHAT WILL I STUDY?

WHY WOLVERHAMPTON?

HOW WILL I BE ASSESSED?

The Teaching in Professional Practice programme is delivered by staff who have expertise in this specific field of practice. The course facilitates networking across practice teaching to develop a critical perspective of the role.

There are two summatively assessed components to this course. You will be assessed in clinical practice by a qualified practice teacher to meet the NMC (2008) stage 3 standards to support learning and assessment in practice, and are expected to evidence this within the practice teacher standards and learning contract document.

HOW WILL THIS COURSE IMPROVE MY EMPLOYABILITY? The module is suitable for a range of professionals including health visitors, district nurses, school nurses and practice nurses.

The course content will cover the standards to support learning and assessment in practice (NMC 2008).

The module studied on this course is Teaching in Professional Practice (20 credits).

You are also required to deliver an individual critically reflective presentation.

OTHER COURSES YOU MAY BE INTERESTED IN: • PGCE Education for Health, Social Care and Allied Professionals

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