Specialist Practitioner: Community Children’s Nursing

Awards

Target Award

Award Description:Postgraduate Diploma - PD

Alternative Exit

Award Description:Postgraduate Certificate - PC

Award Learning Outcomes:Demonstrate mastery of the health and social care requirements in community nursing, including a critical understanding of resource allocation, the wider determinants of health and management to support public health initiatives. Demonstrate advanced clinical reasoning, critical thinking and problem solving in community nursing practice.

Alternate Award Names

Postgraduate Certificate in Community Studies

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

Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of the core principles and values that underpin specialist community practice.

Apply advanced assessment techniques to effectively identify the complex healthcare needs of children, young people, parents, carers, families, and communities.

Develop and implement evidence-based care plans that are responsive to the unique requirements of diverse populations in the community.

Utilise advanced communication skills to establish therapeutic relationships and work in partnership with children, young people and their families to facilitate effective collaboration, and engagement with stakeholders in the community.

Evaluate and integrate emerging research and best practices into specialist community practice to improve outcomes for children, young people, and service delivery.

Promote human rights, addressing inequalities through effective assessment, surveillance, and interventions. Additionally considering global innovations for health improvements

Advocate for the rights and needs of marginalised and vulnerable populations, employing a child and young person-centred and culturally sensitive approach.

Collaborate with interdisciplinary teams to enhance the continuity of care and coordination of services for complex patient cases.

Demonstrate effective leadership and management skills required to influence the health and social care strategies and policies at a local, regional and national level and ensure seamless high quality care delivery.

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

Opportunities for work related learning

The programme is divided to 40% theory and 60% practice. Thus learning opportunities are supported within practice by the assessor/supervisor in order for the student to attain their proficiencies. This is support by the regular tripartite meetings which are held at least 4 times during the programme.
The student will spend 60% of their time on the programme working in practice they must achieve NMC (2022) specialist practice proficiencies to pass the programme and these are assessed in practice by the practice assessor.

Programme Structure

Programme Structure Description

This is a 1 year full time programme comprising 120 credits at level 7. The programme will be 40% theory and 60% practice. Successful completion of the programme will lead to annotation of, 'Specialist Practitioner Qualification' and 'Nurse Independent / Supplementary Prescriber', on the NMC register. The practice assessment document … For more content click the Read More button below. Please note The Specialist practitioner community children's nursing qualification must be registered with the NMC within five years of successful completion of the programme. Failure to do so will result in students having to undertake additional training or gain such experience as specified in (NMC 2023 part 3) Standards for post-registration programmes. The V300 award must be registered with the NMC within five years of successful completion of the prescribing programme. Failure to do so will result in students having to retake and successfully complete the programme in order to qualify as a prescriber. In addition, you may only prescribe once your prescribing qualification has been annotated on the NMC register and you may only prescribe from the formulary you are qualified to prescribe from and within your competence and scope of practice (NMC 2023 part 3). The integration of the V300 into a post-registration programme means that the award/qualification is predicated on successful completion of both, as the students’ prescribing practice in practice assessment is integrated to their SPQ practice. One therefore cannot be awarded without the other. This applies whether the V300 content is threaded through the whole programme or is being delivered in a discrete module (Newsletter February 2024.pdf (mottmac.com))

This is a 1 year full time programme comprising 120 credits at level 7. The programme will be 40% theory and 60% practice.

Successful completion of the programme will lead to annotation of, 'Specialist Practitioner Qualification' and 'Nurse Independent / Supplementary Prescriber', on the NMC register.

The practice assessment document (PAD) provides the underpinning framework for students to demonstrate NMC Specialist practitioner qualification competence for the duration of the programmes. The PAD is a competency document and must be passed in order to complete the full programme and meet NMC (2023 part 3) requirements.

Please note

The Specialist practitioner community children's nursing qualification must be registered with the NMC within five years of successful completion of the programme. Failure to do so will result in students having to undertake additional training or gain such experience as specified in (NMC 2023 part 3) Standards for post-registration programmes.

The V300 award must be registered with the NMC within five years of successful completion of the prescribing programme. Failure to do so will result in students having to retake and successfully complete the programme in order to qualify as a prescriber. In addition, you may only prescribe once your prescribing qualification has been annotated on the NMC register and you may only prescribe from the formulary you are qualified to prescribe from and within your competence and scope of practice (NMC 2023 part 3).

The integration of the V300 into a post-registration programme means that the award/qualification is predicated on successful completion of both, as the students’ prescribing practice in practice assessment is integrated to their SPQ practice. One therefore cannot be awarded without the other. This applies whether the V300 content is threaded through the whole programme or is being delivered in a discrete module (Newsletter February 2024.pdf (mottmac.com))

Structure

Level 7

Level 7 Core

Level 7 Optional

Approved variance from Academic Framework Regulations

Compensation is not allowed on this programme (Approved 31/05/2024) Students are only permitted two attempts to pass the practice assessment of module 7031PAHCOM. (Approved on 31/05/2024) All components of module 7100NPAPP must be passed independently. For module 7100NPAPP all individual elements contained within the practice competency must also be passed. … For more content click the Read More button below.

Compensation is not allowed on this programme (Approved 31/05/2024)

Students are only permitted two attempts to pass the practice assessment of module 7031PAHCOM. (Approved on 31/05/2024)

All components of module 7100NPAPP must be passed independently. For module 7100NPAPP all individual elements contained within the practice competency must also be passed. The examination element (weighted at 40%) has a pass mark of 80%. The numeracy assessment (written examination) within the practice competency element has a pass mark of 100%. (Approved on 31/05/2024)

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.

Course Catalogue