Postgraduate Diploma In Nursing (Public Health Nursing) هذه الدورة تدرس باللغة الإنجليزية

تفاصيل الدورة

This programme is offered by the School of Nursing and Midwifery, NUI Galway and the Health Service Executive.

The programme aims to prepare nurses to work in the community setting as a public health nurse addressing the health care needs of the community as client. The experience of health is both socially and culturally determined with the achievement of maximum health potential influenced by the wider determinants of health. The Public Health Nurse has a unique role in recognising the wider realms of what impacts and determines community health and in facilitating maximum health potential. A key fundamental part of this programme is the development of nursing expertise in targeting public health needs and delivering health care services from a population health foci. The programme is offered on a full time basis and its overall aim is to prepare the nurse to practice effectively as a primary care team member in meeting the challenges of care in the community setting.

Key Facts

Entry Requirements

Before admission to the programme of education and training leading to registration in the Public Health Nurse Pision of the register maintained by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland the candidate must: Be a registered nurse on the general Pision of the register maintained by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland or entitled to be so registered. Candidates must have evidence of a minimum of two years general nursing experience within the past five years, of which 12 months should be consecutive, working a minimum of 74 hours per month (exclusive of post registration/educational courses). Unless the candidate's name is registered in the midwives Pision of the register maintained by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland, the candidate must complete an Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (2005) approved module of study on Child and Maternal Health as part of the programme. Hold an NQAI level 8 qualification (honours degree or higher diploma) or proof of equivalency. Fluency in English or evidence of level 7.0 as per IELTS academic test.

Course Outline

Programme content (subject to change)

Modules:

• Collaboration and Interagency Working
• Using Research in Practice
• Promoting Health and Well-being
• Health Across the Lifespan
• Promoting Population Health
• Public Health Nursing Praxis-Clinical Practice and Management
• Child and Maternal Health (non-midwives only)
• Service Improvement A (non-midwife cohort)
• Service Improvement (midwife-cohort)
• Professional Practice 1
• Professional Practice 2
• Professional Practice 3
• Professional Practice 4
• Professional Practice 5
• Professional Practice 1 (Child and Maternal Health) (non-midwives only)