PgDip Specialist Practice (Health and Justice Nursing) (Higher Apprenticeship) at Teesside University

Programme overview

This higher apprenticeship leads to a PgDip in Specialist Practice (Health and Justice Nursing), with an NMC annotation, for nurses employed in health and justice settings. It is approved against the NMC (2022) community nursing standards and mapped to the Queen's Institute of Community Nursing standards.

Duration: 2 years (apprenticeship) | Intake: September | Study mode: full-time (apprenticeship) | Location: Middlesbrough, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

Core modules are Advancing Health and Justice Nursing 1 and 2, Advancing Non-medical Prescribing and Advancing Physical Assessment Skills for the Specialist Practitioner. Teaching is mostly in person with some online learning, assessed by exams, essays, presentations, portfolios and practice proficiencies.

Career pathways

The course leads to a range of careers combining clinical and leadership skills specific to health and justice nursing, including team leader roles.

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Application information

Entry requirements

Apprentices must hold NMC-valid registration as a first-level registered nurse with at least one year's post-registration experience, hold a degree or RPL equivalent, work in a role with an identified need to prescribe, be approved by the employer's non-medical prescribing lead and service manager, have an NMP practice assessor or designated prescribing practitioner, and pass a 20-question drug calculations entry test at 80% or above. The employer must provide learning opportunities, practice assessor supervision and a work-based risk assessment. International students requiring a student visa cannot be accepted.

Intake: September

Duration: 2 years (apprenticeship)

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