MSc Specialist Community Public Health Nursing – Health Visiting

Requirements: Applicants should have completed the Postgraduate Diploma Specialist Community Public Health Nursing: Health Visiting before applying for the top up award.

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Our graduates are working with many different populations in a variety of management roles in public health settings, the private sector, and within primary care as a team leader co-ordinating the public health role of communities. Some have undertaken research secondments and have worked as associate university lecturers.

Health Visitor
Practice Nurse

Getting it Right for Children, Young People and Families 0-5 years

You will learn how to support the delivery of the national model and vision for health visiting, by focusing on four areas of practice – health imporvement, public health, evidence based practice and sustainability and support.

Building Community Capacity

Understand how to build sustainable capacity and resources for health improvement, and reduce health inequalities. You will be able to identify priority community health needs and write a business plan in order to secure resources effectively using sustainable community capacity.

Leadership, Management and Enterprise

Learn what it takes to meet NMC standards for specialist practice, specifically standards that relate to your role in leading and managing specialist practice.

Professional Development in Practice

Increase the skills and knowledge required for both your personal and professional development in the current modernisation agenda.

Therapeutic Relationships for Healthcare Practitioners

Develop your interpersonal capacities and skills by gaining the theoretical knowledge of people’s emotional/mental health and wellbeing in relation to being service users/patients within health and social care systems, and relate this understanding to their particular areas of practice.

Understanding Social Research and Evaluation

Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, enabling you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice based problems.