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PgDip Community Nursing Specialist (General Practice Nursing)

University of Plymouth

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Course options

  • Qualification

    Postgraduate Diploma - PgDip

  • Location

    Plymouth Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    21-SEP-26

  • Duration

    2 Years

Course summary

This programme has been designed with close collaboration between key stakeholders including students, clinical representatives, academics and service users, families and carers. You will develop a critical understanding of the specialist generalist role of the General Practice Nurse, by incorporating enhanced levels of professional autonomous practice, and awareness of social, political, and economic restraints in providing person-centred care.

Key features

  • Gain a deeper understanding of the role of the community nursing specialist nurse and critically examine the theory, practice and principles of community nursing specialist practice using an evidence-based approach to enable them to adapt and provide a wide range of nursing care in home and community-based settings.
  • Further expand professional autonomy continuing to work within legal, and ethical and professional accountability.
  • Develop enhanced critical thinking, critical reflection skills, and attain the authority to make clinical decisions and prescribe within the NMC (2022) (Nursing and Midwifery Council) standards of the community nursing (Specialist Practitioner Qualification (SPQ)) role.
  • Develop a critical understanding of the current issues that impact on health delivery in the community setting.
  • Utilising a person-centred approach, assess people’s abilities and needs and plan and co-produce a plan to manage care, developing specialised advanced skills and case-management of people with undifferentiated and complex conditions.
  • Demonstrate leadership in supporting and managing community nursing teams, coordinating care, and managing complex and dynamic community and/or practice caseloads.
  • Lead improvements in safety and quality of care by implementing quality processes, service evaluation and improvement methodology as well as working collaboratively as part of a wider heath care team.
  • Develop expertise in evaluating research theory and methodology, to enable the application of research to improve care and services for people and communities.

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University information

University of Plymouth

University of Plymouth

University of Plymouth

  • University League Table

    75th

  • Campus address

    Plymouth University, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, United Kingdom

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Subject rankings

  • Subject ranking

    Nursing & Midwifery

    10th out of 84 10

  • Entry standards

    / Max 207
    153 74%

    5th

  • Graduate prospects

    / Max 100
    99.0 99%

    6th

    2

  • Student satisfaction

    / Max 4
    2.89 72%

    73rd

    25

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