Community Health Studies

This multi-professional course is designed for qualified children’s nurses wishing to advance their knowledge of the management of children with complex needs, life-limiting conditions and specialist care requirements.

You will develop knowledge and skills in decision making, law, ethics and multi-disciplinary teamwork, learning how to work with a wide range of services, both statutory and voluntary, for the benefit of the child and to further the agenda of integrated service provision.

Plus, you will have your professional competencies, as set out by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), assessed in theory and practice, and experience 40 days of practical clinical placements.

Teaching

The course is taught on the Glyntaff campus. The NMC require forty academic days to be completed. Twenty-six of these require attendance on a Tuesday, from September to May. The other fourteen academic days will be self-directed and recorded on a course diary.

Each academic day is counted as 7.5 hours, thus achieving 300 hours of student effort. You will be taught alongside other community nurses by members of the team who possess a SPQ recordable with the NMC, and some practitioners.

You will also undertake forty clinical practice days between September and May, again equating to 7.5 hours, thus 300 hours of student effort. 

Teaching and learning methods include lectures, tutorials, workshops and self-directed study.

If you have undertaken the Fundamentals of Community Practice module (30 credits) within the last five years, this can be transferred to the degree.

Whilst undertaking the course you will meet the requirements of the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (1994) Standards for specialist education and practice. On successful completion you will be awarded a specialist practitioner qualification (SPQ), which is recorded with the NMC, as well as a BSc (Hons) Community Health Studies (Specialist Practitioner Community Children's Nursing).

Please note, this course fully funded by the Workforce, Education and Development Services department of Welsh Government.