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Person-Centred Practice (District Nursing) - PgDip
Course options
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Qualification
Postgraduate Diploma
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Location
Queen Margaret University
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Study mode
Full time
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Start date
15-SEP-25
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Duration
1 Year
Course summary
District nurses make a difference every day to the lives of the people they visit at home or in a homely setting. This course is for Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registered nurses already working in, or wishing to work in the community as a district nurse.This PgDip in District Nursing (Person-Centred Practice) course will allow you to gain the level of knowledge and skills required for working in the community in a district nursing capacity. The course leads to a Specialist Practitioner Qualification with the NMC. It is delivered both full and part-time with start dates in September each year and is part of our Person-Centred Practice Framework. District nurses provide increasingly complex care for people and support for family members. District Nurses, while autonomous practitioners, work as part of integrated teams to provide holistic person-centred care.On completion of the course you will be able to, 鈥榚xercise higher levels of judgement discretion and decision-making and meet the following core and specialist outcomes required by the NMC: clinical nursing practice, care and pathway management clinical practice leadership clinical practice development.The course outcomes have been developed with the requirements of the NMC Standards of Specialist Education and Practice (NMC 2001), and on successful completion of the course you will be entered onto part 3 of the Nursing and Midwifery Council register as a Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (District Nurse).
Modules
Tuition fees
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拢 17,000per year
Tuition fees shown are for indicative purposes and may vary. Please check with the institution for most up to date details.
University information
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University League Table
97th
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Campus address
Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh, Queen Margaret University Drive, Musselburgh, Edinburgh, EH21 6UU, Scotland
Subject rankings
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Subject ranking
42nd out of 82 15
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Entry standards
/ Max 208136 65%32nd
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Graduate prospects
/ Max 100100.0 100%1st
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Student satisfaction
/ Max 43.04 76%29th
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