Course summary

Do you have a desire become a School Nurse? The Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (SCPHN) course is aimed at registered nurses or midwives who wish to develop their knowledge and skills within the context of Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (School Nursing). What's covered in this course? As a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse, School Nurses uphold school-aged children's and young people's rights. They provide a collaborative, culturally appropriate, personalised, evidence-based, and inclusive service that advocates for the optimum health of all school-aged children and young people. As a School Nurse, you will understand the wider determinants of health and the impact these can have on individuals across their lifetime, allowing you to address health inequalities through health education, health promotion, and evidence-based interventions that are age and maturity appropriate. Our Specialist Community Public Health Nursing – School Nursing course is underpinned by research and evidence and provides you with a balance of academic and practical learning opportunities. The course has been co-produced with people who have experience of the service and practice partners who will support you in your learning in practice. The course will help you develop as an autonomous practitioner in public health and adopt a life-course approach to your evolving practice. You will also acquire skills to effect change that reduces health inequalities. Your learning and development will be supported by academic assessors, practice assessors, and practice supervisors in line with NMC guidelines (2023). Upon completion of the course, our aim is for you to be able to demonstrate the development of your knowledge, skills, and behaviours by achieving the NMC Standards of Proficiency for Specialist Community Public Health Nursing (NMC, 2022) reflecting the six spheres of influence:

• Autonomous specialist community public health nursing practice.

• Transforming specialist community public health nursing practice: evidence, research, evaluation and translation.

• Promoting human rights and addressing inequalities: assessment, surveillance and intervention.

• Population health: enabling, supporting and improving health outcomes of people across the life course

• Advancing public health services and promoting healthy places, environments and cultures.

• Leading and collaborating: from investment to action and dissemination