Nursing Practice

You will need to attend one of the induction days prior to commencing your first module; these are running in Lancaster on 18 or 19 September 2013 (you only need to attend one date), 08 January 2014 and 26 March 2014 and in Carlisle on 20 September 2013, 07 January 2014 and 25 March 2014. If you have studied at the University of Cumbria in the past two years the requirement to attend the induction day may be waived.

Closing date for applications

The closing date for applications is 5 working days prior to the module start date or, if this is your first module, 5 working days prior to the induction date. The timetable for level 6 modules running in 2013/4 is available on the Practice Development Framework website.

Why study with us?

The Graduate Diploma (GDip) Nursing Practice (120 credits) is for nurses who hold a degree already but who do not want to move on to postgraduate level study at this time. The programme features a variety of bespoke module options which are tailored to individual learners personal and professional development needs.

What can this course lead to?

Having completed this Graduate Diploma programme, you could consider moving on to study a Masters degree. There are several options you can consider, depending on your professional background:

• MSc/PgC Advanced Practice in Health and Social Care
• MSc Specialist Community Public Health Nursing Practice
• MSc Practice Development

Alternatively, you might want to consider consolidating your degree level study by undertaking a University Advanced Diploma Practice Development (60 credits at level 6) or taking a PgC Practice Development award (60 credits at level 7). These are available in a range of practice-based subjects. We also have a wide range of stand alone modules at all levels.

Resources and facilities

We are amongst the UK’s leading health and wellbeing faculties and are proud of the high level of support we are able to offer to our students. We provide a wide range of high-quality courses supported by expert academic and clinical practice staff.

If you join us you will enjoy great facilities and learn alongside caring, committed and experienced professionals. Our employment record is excellent.

Entry requirements

1st or 2nd class honours degree

Students with other qualifications may be admitted to the course via APL procedures

More about levels and credits

Credit and UCAS requirements Credit: 120 credits Selection criteria

You must be a qualified nurse and hold active registration with the NMC Nursing Register, or equivalent. You will need access to an appropriate practice setting if a module with an attached QPU is studied or a work based learning module. Applications will be accompanied by one professional reference.

Modules

You need to study a total of 120 credits to complete this course. All modules listed below are 20 credits each unless otherwise stated.

Core modules:

HLLG6018 Evidence Based Practice

Optional modules:

HLLG6001 Acute and Critical Care: Foundations for Practice (Students must be working in an acute care environment and have at least 6 experience in the speciality)

HLLG6002 Acute Care: Contemporary Issues (Independent Study) (Students must be working within an acute care setting and have at least 6 months experience in the speciality. Pre-requisite module HLLG6001 or equivalent APL is required)

HLLG6003 Acute Pain Management

HLLG6004 Acute Stroke Management: Contemporary Perspectives (Students must have experience within and/or access to an acute stroke setting)

HMFG6001 Acutely Ill Child (Pre-requisite module HMFG6006, HMFG6003 or equivalent thought APL is required)

HPHG6002 Advances in Cardiology

HLLG6005 Advancing Mental Health Across the Health Care Spectrum

HLLG6006 Anticoagulation Therapy

HRBG6001 Aromatherapy: Using Essential Oils to Promote Health and Wellbeing (Students must provide evidence of prior study in anatomy and physiology)

HPHG6004 Asthma Management

HPHS6002 Asymptomatic Screening for Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV and HPHS9002 Qualificatory Practice Unit: Asymptomatic Screening for STIs and HIV

SWAS6003 Autistic Spectrum Disorder

HPHG6006 Case Management of Long Term Conditions (Students must be working in/have access to a practice environment)

HPHS6004 Cervical Cytology Screening: Theory and Practice and HPHS9004 Qualificatory Practice Unit: Cervical Screening and Practice

HLLG6007 Chemotherapy (Students must be working in a chemotherapy setting)

HMFG6002 Child Birth: Promoting and Facilitating Normal Birth (Students must be working with pregnant women and families)

HMFG6003 Child Health

HMFG6005 Children and Young People with Long Term Conditions

HMFG6004 Children and Young People's Mental Health - Understanding and Managing Trauma

HPHG6008 Clinical Judgement and Decision Making (40 credits)

HLLG6008 Clinical Supervision

HMFG6006 Common Childhood Conditions

HLLG6009 Communication and Collaborative Working

HPHG6010 Community Cardiology in Practice

HPHG6012 Consultation and Physical Examination Assessment Skills

NMLB6254 Consultation Skills for Pharmacists (10 credits) (Co-requisite modules NMLB6248 and NMLB6252 must be taken)

NMLB6126 Contemporary Issues in Pre-Hospital Care

HPHS6006 Contraception and Reproductive Sexual Health and HPHS9006 Qualificatory Practice Unit: Contraception and Reproductive Sexual Health

HPHG6014 COPD: Diagnosis and Management

HLLG6010 Critical Care: Contemporary Issues (Students must be working within a critical care unit and have at least 12 months experience in the speciality. Pre-requisite module HLLG6001 or equivalent APL is required)

HLLG6011 Cultural Competence

HPHG6016 Current Issues in Cardiology

HLLG6013 Dementia: Assessing and Meeting Care Needs

HLLG6014 Dementia: Contemporary Approaches

HLLG6015 Dementia: Negotiated Learning

HLLG6016 Dementia: Practitioner Values

HLLG6017 Dementia: Self Awareness and Relationship Building for Practitioners

HLLG6012 Dementia: Understanding Key Concepts

NMLB6252 Developing Clinical Skills for Non Medical Prescribing through Work Based Learning (10 credits) (Co-requisite modules NMLB6244/54 and NMLB6246/48/50 must be taken)

HPHG6018 Diabetes: Management of Type 1

HPHG6020 Diabetes: Management of Type 2

HPHG6022 Diabetes: Promoting Self Management

HPHG6024 Emergency Care: Care of Minor Illness/Trauma

HPHG6026 Emergency Care: Management of Acute Illness/ Major Trauma

HPHO6002 Ergonomics in the Workplace

HLLG6018 Evidence Based Practice

HMFG6007 Examination of the Newborn and HMFG9001 Qualificatory Practice Unit for Examination of the Newborn

HPHG6028 Facilitating Health Behaviour Change

HPHO6004 Fitness for Work

HPHO6006 Health Surveillance Management

HLLG6019 Heart Failure Management

HPHG6030 Human Health and Pathophysiology

HLLG6020 Infection Prevention and Management

SWAS4003 Introduction to Working with Individuals on the Autistic Spectrum

HLLG6021 Leadership and Change

HLLG6022 Leg Ulcer Management

HPHO6008 Legal and Ethical Aspects of Occupational Health

HPHG6032 Long Term Condition Care

HLLG6052 Management - Managing Information

HLLG6050 Management - Managing Self and Others

HPHG6034 Management of Insulin Initiation

HLLG6051 Managing Finance and Resources in Health and Social Care Settings

HLLG6023 Managing Risk

HPHG6036 Medicines: Therapeutics and Pharmacology

HPHS6008 Menopause Management (10 credits)

HLLG6024 Mental Health Across the Lifespan

HPHO6010 Mental Health in the Workplace

HLLG6049 Mental Health: Contemporary Issues

HLLM6001 Multiprofessional Support of Learning and Assessment in Practice

HLLG6025-28 Negotiated Learning (5 credits) (The nature of the module content and assessed work will be negotiated and written into a learning contract)

HLLG6029-30 Negotiated Learning (10 credits) (The nature of the module content and assessed work will be negotiated and written into a learning contract)

HLLG6031-35 Negotiated Learning (The nature of the module content and assessed work will be negotiated and written into a learning contract)

HPHG6038 Pain and Symptom Management in Palliative Care Practice

HPHG6040 Palliative Care Practice

HPHS6010 Personal, Social, Health and Economic Education (PSHE Education) (40 credits)

NMLB6244 Pharmacology for Prescribing (10 credits)

HLLG6036 Practice Innovation

NMLB6084 Prescribing for Community Practitioners

HLLG6037 Prevention of Pressure Ulcers

NMLB6250 Principles of Prescribing Practice in the Context of Allied Health Professionals

NMLB6246 Principles of Prescribing Practice in the Context of Nursing, Midwifery and Specialist Community Public Health Nursing

NMLB6248 Principles of Prescribing Practice in the Context of Pharmacists

HRBG6002 Reflexology: Evidence and Practice

HRBG6003 Rehabilitation: Collaborative Working

HRBG6004 Rehabilitation: Improving Practice

HPHG6042 Respiratory Health Assessment

HPHO6012 Risk Assessment and Health and Safety Management

HPHO6014 Sickness Absence Management

HLLG6038 Solution Focused Brief Therapy

HRBG6005 Somatic Bodywork: Therapeutic Touch and Massage (Students must provide evidence of prior study in anatomy and physiology)

HPHO6016 Stress Management

HMFG6008 Supporting Children and Young People through Bereavement and Loss

HLLG6039 Dissertation (40 credits)

HRBG6006 Therapeutic Relationships: Assessment and Treatment Planning

HLLG6040 Tissue Viability

HPHO6020 Toxicology

HPHO6018 Travel Health

HLLG6041 User/Carer Perspectives in Health Care

HLLG6042-46 Work Based Learning (The nature of the work based learning and portfolio will be negotiated and written into a learning contract. Students must identify an appropriate approved workplace mentor)

HLLG6047-48 Work Based Learning (40 credits) (The nature of the work based learning and portfolio will be negotiated and written into a learning contract. Students must identify an appropriate approved workplace mentor)

Course summary

The Graduate Diploma: Nursing Practice is a course for qualified nurses who already hold a degree and wish to undertake further study in Nursing. This is also available as a full-time option, for further information please contact Michelle Garner (Michelle.Garner@cumbria.ac.uk).

The GDip Nursing Practice programme requires you to undertake a single, 20 credit core module: Evidence Based Practice. You will have the opportunity to select remaining modules from the Practice Development Framework (see list below) or, any level 6 module from within the Faculty of Health and Wellbeing which has been designated as “stand alone”, to a total of 120 credits, providing the selected modules are relevant to the your programme of study and area of practice. Optional modules must be agreed by the personal tutor.