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District Nursing at Oxford Brookes University - UCAS

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2023 - 20242024 - 2025
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Course summary

Our District Nursing PGDip is community nurses who want to prepare for (or consolidate) a leadership role. The course prepares you for the changing face of community nursing. You will:

  • strengthen your leadership attributes
  • become a skilful specialist practitioner
  • learn how to lead and bring about change in your practice environments.
A large amount of your time will be spent in the practice environment. You will have a practice teacher who will support the development of your professional practice. Our lecturers are experienced in their specialist practice areas. They maintain excellent practice links with those areas locally and across the region. We also have well-established links with national and international colleagues, organisations and institutions. This ensures that the curriculum reflects current practice issues. You will gain a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) community specialist practitioner (CSP) award.

Modules

The PGDip in District Nursing (DN) comprises six modules. You will be sponsored or seconded to study full-time over a period of 12 months, or two years part-time. The importance of working collaboratively is a central philosophy of our course. Interdisciplinary, interprofessional and inter-agency collaboration is key to effective service delivery.

Assessment method

A variety of teaching and learning strategies are used to make the most of your experience, skills and knowledge:

  • seminars
  • discussions
  • debates
  • group work.
You will have access to our virtual learning environment, an online repository of lectures, handouts, information and learning exercises. The teaching, learning and assessment strategies underpinning the course reflect our interprofessional, client-centred and practice-focused approach. You will spend 50% of your time in the practice environment. Your community practice teacher (CPT) will facilitate your learning, supervise your progress and assess your competence in practice. You will critically analyse and evaluate district nurse practice with your lecturers and CPTs. Your assignments will provide a focus for analysing practice.

Professional bodies

Professionally accredited courses provide industry-wide recognition of the quality of your qualification.

  • Nursing and Midwifery Council

Entry requirements

Access to the DN course is open to practitioners who meet the following criteria. This course is at level 7 (Master’s Degree) therefore evidence is required of recent study at level 6 (degree level). You must: - be registered on Part One (Adult/ RN1/ RNA) of the NMC register as an Adult Nurse and active UK Nurse - be able to demonstrate evidence of recent study at level 6 on entry - have secured a student place within an NHS Trust which will ensure the following: - access to a community practice teacher and placement area - a source of NHS funding (employment) to enable payment of the course fees.

Fees and funding

Tuition fees

No fee information has been provided for this course

Additional fee information

Funding is secured via application to an NHS Trust for a student post (Student School Nurse or Student Health Visitor). This will involve an application to NHS jobs (https://www.jobs.nhs.uk/). You should not apply for this course at Oxford Brookes University until funding has been secured with an NHS Trust.
District Nursing at Oxford Brookes University - UCAS