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MSc Specialist Community Public Health Nursing – Occupational Health Nursing

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    MSc 1 year part time

Masters Degree Description

Our course provides the opportunity to become a specialist community public health nurse on the third part of the nursing register. It will enable you to undertake leadership roles and develop the expertise to influence, drive and implement public health policies.

By critically analysing leadership and management in clinical practice you will examine the complexity of delivering health and social care services especially in relation to professional occupational health nursing. You will gain a specialism in occupational health nursing, developing the skills to deliver quality and innovative health care to a working population, to maintain workability and enable individuals to return to the workplace. 

There will be the opportunity to explore concepts of health behaviour and health needs within the legal framework to protect the health of workers and the impact on the wider community. You’ll have the opportunity to identify and promote entrepreneurial activities, build a portfolio of practice work, and leave with a nationally recognised qualification.

Entry Requirements

Requirements :Applicants should have completed the Postgraduate Diploma Specialist Community Public Health Nursing: Occupational Health Nursing before applying for the top up award. All applicants should satisfy our University English language requirements, please access further details at this link

IELTS:

IELTS 6.0 with no skills below 5.5, or an equivalent qualification. The University provides excellent support for any applicant who may be required to undertake additional English language courses.

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Fees

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Student Destinations

Our graduates are working with many different populations in a variety of management roles in public health settings, the private sector, and within primary care as a team leader co-ordinating the public health role of communities. Some have undertaken research secondments and have worked as associate university lecturers.

Occupational Health Nurse

Module Details

Managing Health in the Workplace

Explore the breadth and depth of occupational health nursing practice, focusing on the interaction of humans and their work environment by recognition, evaluation and control of workplace hazards.

Learn what it takes to meet NMC standards for specialist practice, specifically standards that relate to your role in leading and managing specialist practice.

Increase the skills and knowledge required for both your personal and professional development in the current modernisation agenda.

Develop your interpersonal capacities and skills by gaining the theoretical knowledge of people’s emotional/mental health and wellbeing in relation to being service users/patients within health and social care systems, and relate this understanding to their particular areas of practice.

Understand how to build sustainable capacity and resources for health improvement, and reduce health inequalities. You will be able to identify priority community health needs and write a business plan in order to secure resources effectively using sustainable community capacity.

Gain a theoretical, methodological and practical foundation for social research, enabling you to act as a social researcher to resolve practice based problems.

Produce a substantial research project on a self-selected topic of interest, demonstrating your developmental learning in addition to a variety of academic and practical skills.

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