Awards
Target Award
Alternative Exit
Alternate Award Names
Accreditation
Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC)
Programme Offerings
Full-Time
B-JMU-SEP
Educational Aims of the Course
The overall educational aim of the Specialist Practitioner Community Children’s Nursing programme is to ensure all students have the specialist knowledge, skills and attributes to work as autonomous practitioners, capable of making decisions and managing greater clinical complexity and risk, both in terms of the children, young people and families they care for, the caseloads they manage and the services they work within, which in turn may be integrated with other agencies, professionals and disciplines (NMC 2022).
SPQs are committed to deliver individualised care which promotes respect and autonomy of individuals and communities. Collectively they highlight the core values of SPQ practice (NMC 2022) emphasising the importance of being an accountable, autonomous professional and partner in care, promoting health and wellbeing and preventing ill health, assessing people’s abilities and needs, and planning care, providing and evaluating evidence-based care, leading, supporting and managing teams, leading improvements in safety and quality of care, care coordination and system leadership.
This programme meets the requirements for:
- NMC (2022) Standards of proficiency for community nursing specialist practice qualifications (SPQ) https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/standards/post-reg-standards/nmc_standards_of_proficiency_for_community_nursing_spqs.pdf
- NMC (2023) Standards framework for nursing and midwifery education (NMC Part 1) https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/standards/2023-pre-reg-standards/new-vi/standards-framework-for-nursing-and-midwifery-education.pdf
- NMC (2023) Standards for student supervision and assessment (NMC Part 2) https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/standards/2023-pre-reg-standards/new-vi/standards-for-student-supervision-and-assessment.pdf
- NMC (2023) Standards for post registration nursing programmes (NMC Part 3) https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/standards/2023-pre-reg-standards/new-vi/standards-for-post-registration-programmes.pdf
- NMC (2023) Standards for prescribing programmes (NMC Part 3) https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/standards/2023-pre-reg-standards/new-vi/standards-for-prescribing-programmes.pdf
- RPS (2023) Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Competency Framework for All Prescribers https://www.rpharms.com/Portals/0/RPS%20document%20library/Open%20access/Professional%20standards/Prescribing%20competency%20framework/prescribing-competency-framework.pdf
Learning Outcomes
Teaching, Learning and Assessment
The programme offers an increased level of blended learning delivery to enable students to access up to 50% of taught sessions remotely through online delivery. This will be facilitated through a combination of face-to-face, online live sessions, directed, and independent learning methods. The theoretical learning and teaching delivery model for the programme will be based on a proportion of each module notional teaching hours allocated to face-to-face/online live, directed and independent learning.
Assessments methods throughout the programme include written essays, oral presentations, OSCEs, exams, professional conversation, and business plan production as well as feedback via the PAD
Programme Structure
Programme Structure Description
Structure
Level 7
Approved variance from Academic Framework Regulations
Entry Requirements
DBS Required
RPL
Relevant work experience
Undergraduate degree
Extra Entry Requirements
Please note: Students wishing to undertake the V300 element of this programme must also be deemed competent by, and obtain permission and support from their employer. All students who wish to undertake V300 Non-Medical Prescribing will have to complete an additional 'North West Non-Medical Prescribing Application form' which will be approved by the prescribing programme team prior to commencement on the NMP programme.