Keele University Prospectus Postgraduate | 2017 | Page 107

Specialist Community
Public Health Nursing:
Health Visiting

Key Information
Course type

Overview

Would you like to train as a Health Visitor? Keele University School
of Nursing and Midwifery delivers a full-time one year Specialist
Community Public Health Nursing programme. This course has been
designed to produce specialist community public health practitioners
who are safe, competent, and deliver professional practice in a
community public health setting, meeting Nursing and Midwifery
Council (NMC) standards for Specialist Community Public Health
Nursing. Students are prepared to work with communities, families
and individuals to improve health and reduce health inequalities to
optimise life chances, in partnership with people and organisations,
in support of the government health and social agenda. On successful
completion of this course you will be able to register with the NMC
on the third part of the register as a Specialist Community Public
Health Nurse. Students studying at postgraduate level have an
opportunity to undertake a dissertation after the course to convert
their postgraduate diploma to a master’s degree.

Postgraduate diploma

Mode of study

Full-time (or part-time
by arrangement)

Indicative entry
requirements

Applicants are required to be
qualified nurses or midwives.
For a list of full entry
requirements please visit
www.keele.ac.uk/pgtcourses

Contact email

[e-mail]

You will develop your leadership skills, learn to plan and lead services
and initiatives that promote health improvement, as well as community
practitioner prescribing as applicable to your role. The Health Visiting
pathway reflects the current standards and initiatives for health visiting
practice following a recent significant role development and expansion
of the health visiting service (DH 2011), developing public health
awareness and understanding of key health challenges using a social
model of health and well-being, and has a particular in-depth focus on
the physical, social and emotional aspects of the developing child from
0 to 5 years, including attachment, recognising how these contribute to
social capital and life chances. Your clinical placement experiences will
enable you to gain expertise in the full range of health visiting skills,
through observation and practice supervised by a practice teacher.

Indicative modules
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Specialist Community Practice
Public Health and Social Policy
The Developing Child
Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing
Research module
Leadership module

For more information please visit

keele.ac.uk/pg/scphnursing-hvp

Charlotte Graham
Specialist Community Public
Health Nursing Student

I found that although the course
is challenging; it consolidated much
of my prior experience and allowed
me to consider my practice from a
different perspective. Working within
from a healthy child model allows deeper
consideration of the wider determinants
of health and requires the student
Health Visitor to look at the child within
the context of their family and wider
social setting. The transition from
Nurse to Health Visitor is demanding
however once in practice, the emphasis
on working with communities to
develop and empower family health
is very rewarding.
Smart minds choose Keele

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