The course is tailored for clinically experienced nurses seeking a flexible route to a master’s level qualification that has a recordable Specialist Practitioner Qualification (PG Diploma only) with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
Our practitioners, researchers, and academic staff are experienced specialists in clinical areas of practice and will offer a unique perspective to your learning. You'll also benefit from experienced visiting lecturers, enhancing your learning through varied sources of clinical expertise.
Integrating both theory and practice, you will develop the skills, knowledge and attitudes needed to deliver safe and effective specialist practice to patients and clients. You'll gain the confidence to make higher level clinical decisions, drive consistent developments and advancements in clinical healthcare, and see through strategic or operational change within your workplace. DMU's strong links with clinical practice, combined with direct input and teaching from experienced colleagues in clinical settings, helps to ensure learning is relevant to current practice.
Key features
- 50% of your time on the programme will be spent undertaking theory that is made up of taught sessions and private study, and 50% of the programme will be undertaken in clinical practice in district nursing teams.
- You will obtain a specialist practitioner recordable qualification with the NMC.
- Specialist academic and clinical colleagues have worked collaboratively to develop expert core and clinical modules
- Specialist District Nursing including Community Formulary Prescribing v100 (full-time or part-time) will be taken as part of this programme.
- Gain competencies that are mapped to the NMC Standards for Specialist Practice, The Queen’s Nursing Institute’s Voluntary Standards for Specialist Practice, and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society’s Standards for all Prescribers.
- Through successful completion of the Community Formulary Prescribing (CFP) module (V100) you will be able to prescribe from the CFP formulary in practice.
- By the end of the programme you will have gained the specialist skills and knowledge required to be a specialist practitioner in district nursing.
This programme does not accept direct entry applications.
All applicants need to be supported by their manager and hospital trust.
For further information contact
Course Leader:
Donna Edwards
T: +44 (0)0116 257 7700
E: lbradmissions@dmu.ac.uk