Community Practitioner Nurse Prescribing (V150)
Who the course is aimed at
The course is aimed at registered nurses who do not hold a Specialist Practitioner Qualification. You must intend to practise in an area of clinical need, where prescribing from the Community Practitioner Formulary will improve patient care and service delivery.
Benefits of taking the course to the individual, the organisation and the patient.
- Nurse prescribing improves patient care through timely access to medicines and treatment. Patients report a high level of satisfaction in nurse prescribing
- Prescribing can increase nurses’ autonomy, independence and job satisfaction
- Nurse prescribing can also improve service efficiency within organisations, reducing unnecessary appointments with GP’s
What you learn
The aim of this course is to prepare you to prescribe safely and effectively from the Nurse Prescribers’ Formulary for Community Practitioners.
General areas covered
- Developing consultation skills
- Clinical pharmacology
- Evidence based practice
- Professional Accountability and responsibility
- Team working and prescribing
- Ethical legal and policy issues
Skills gained for the workplace, technical skills or academic skills
- A combination of interactive, lecturer directed and student directed study will be used to support your learning
- Working alongside your mentor you to gain valuable experience in practice. This builds on your learning from the taught sessions and self-directed learning
Professional recognition
Upon successful completion of the course you will be recorded as a Community Practitioner Nurse Prescriber with the NMC.
Fees and Funding for 2024/25
| Indicative price for stand-alone module |
Home student: £1,145 N/A - not open to International/EU |
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| Funding |
This module attracts Workforce Development / Workforce Transformation funding WDF/WTF by the following schemes: |
| How to apply |
To apply for a self-funded place, please complete and return the application form below: To apply for a Workforce Development / Workforce Transformation funding WDF/WTF funded place, please complete and return the relevant application form below: Further information and Workforce Development Funding / CPD Funding online application form |
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Entry requirements
You should be a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Registered Nurse and be suitably experienced in your field of practice. Although you can apply for the course before being NMC registered, you must be on the register at the start of your course. You should be capable of safe and effective practice at a level of proficiency appropriate to the programme, and your intended area of prescribing practice. This should be evidenced in your application form and in your references from your employer.
You will need the support of an identified Designated Prescribing Practitioner who holds a prescribing qualification and the appropriate experience to assess your practice. You will also need to identify suitable practice supervisors who should not be the same person as your DPP.
The Standards for Student Supervision and assessment (NMC, 2018) should be referred to for further information. A valid Placement Audit should be in place (please note that this requires updating every two years). Private companies should be CQC registered, and we may have to undertake a placement audit in line with the course requirements.
The above must be evidenced in your application form.
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Attendance
Delivery Method:
This module is delivered at our Collegiate Crescent Campus
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Provisional timetable
The module is scheduled to start in September 2024 and January 2025 and is taught and assessed over a period of 4 months.
The current dates are:
September: 25.09.2024 running until 15.01.2025
January: 22.01.2025 running until 21.05.2025
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Assessment
Module assessment is made up of one or more assessment tasks. The assessment task(s) for this module are:
- Written Examination
- Assessed Placement
Successful completion of this module will earn you 10 level 6 credits
Further details
For further information please contact the module leader Maxine Deacon - m.deacon@shu.ac.uk