Course summary
This course offers registered nurses, pharmacists and allied health professionals (physiotherapists, podiatrists, paramedics and therapeutic radiographers) an opportunity to enhance their clinical skills and practice and become an independent non-medical prescriber. This increases your potential to access career opportunities and improves the service user/patient and carer experience by offering a timely and responsive access route to treatment. You will:
- Be taught by a multi-professional team of independent prescribers and clinical experts
- Build the confidence to critically evaluate and challenge prescribing practice with reference to evidence based practice, equality and diversity and clinical governance
- Create and implement new approaches to care delivering that meets the needs of your client group
Entry requirements
Nurses and Allied Health Professionals applying to this module should have three years' post-registration experience. Pharmacists require two years' post-registration experience. Identification of a DMP (Designated Medical Practitioner) This must be a doctor who meets the criteria to supervise a trainee NMP and has agreed to undertake the role. For clinical skills, you will need: Line managers support for work-based supervision and assessment of clinical skills agreed through a tripartite learning agreement A practice-based supervisor and assessor to facilitate the development of clinical skills. For Non-Medical Prescribing you will need to identify a DMP (Designated Medical Practitioner) or for nurses this can be either a doctor or a suitably experienced qualified prescriber acting as practice assessor. This must be a doctor or suitably qualified independent prescriber who meets the criteria to supervise a trainee NMP set by the professional regulatory bodies and has agreed to undertake the role.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
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Additional fee information
Provider information
University of Salford
The Crescent
Salford
M5 4WT