| Module code |
NSA 3901 (level 6) NSA 4902 (level 7) |
|---|---|
| Credits | 30 |
| Start date | January 2024 |
| Duration | 11 days plus exams |
| Attendance | Part-time, blended learning |
| Fees | 拢1,890 |
| Module leader | Alison Harris |
The aim of this prescribing qualification is to enable you to support person-centred and holistic care as well as to develop your clinical skills and enhance your professional practice. Upon completion, you will be a safe community practitioner prescriber who is competent to assess, manage and prescribe in your area of clinical expertise, working in conjunction with your patients and multidisciplinary team to give holistic care.
You will enhance patient access to community services and be supported and encouraged to develop the level of skills, knowledge and professionalism which are essential to the successful completion of the module.
If you are a registered nurse or midwife or a Specialist Community Public Health Nurse (SCPHN) working in the community, then this module will allow you to prescribe products from the Nurses’ Formulary.
The module has been validated by the Nursing and Midwifery Council and can be taken at level 6 or 7 and can be accredited to a postgraduate award such as a master’s degree.
Interviews for entry to the module will take place online, on Tuesday 29 November 2023.
The module will give you the ability to assess patients in the domiciliary, community and primary care setting, ensuring that all prescribing decisions are patient-centred.
You'll gain the knowledge of the pharmacokinetics of medicines and how pharmacokinetics can be altered in special groups, including children and older people.
You'll develop effective skills of monitoring, reviewing and recording the patient’s prescribed treatment, its effectiveness, side-effects and contraindications and an awareness of adverse drug reactions.
You'll also gain the ability to assess a patient’s health need and prescribe accordingly within your own speciality as well as an enhanced knowledge of the pharmacological properties of medication, possible interactions and adverse effects.
This module supports the professional development of nurses, midwives and SCPHN as it equips you with the skills required by today’s healthcare system. As a V150 community practitioner prescriber, you can prescribe from the Nurses’ Formulary and support seamless and speedier access to treatment.
The module will run from 9.00am to 4.00pm (unless otherwise stated below) and will be taught 50% online and 50% face to face on Hendon Campus.
Teaching will be delivered at the Hendon Campus as well as online learning. The module will utilise a range of resources and lectures and discussion groups involving critical incident analysis. A range of strategies will be used to encourage personal development, reflection and discussion through online seminars and small group teaching.
The teaching and acquisition of clinical skills will mostly take place in the practice setting although timetabled seminars will support history taking and consultation skills. You will demonstrate pharmacological knowledge in your speciality through presentations of prescribing in specialist groups such as children and older people.
Students on the community practitioner prescribing route will be taught alongside the independent and supplementary prescribing students but will also have some separate online seminars and workshops that reflects their specific needs as they move towards a community nurse prescribing qualification.
In order to demonstrate you have achieved the modules learning outcomes, you will be assessed via:
There will also be a Practice Assessment which will take the form of 10 days (65 hours) of supervised clinical practice (50% weighting) as well as successful completion of the Practice Assessment Document.
We require applicants to be supported by their employer to attend 11 full days of teachings plus one day for the final exam. They must also have access to the practice assessor who is a qualified community practitioner prescriber.
They must demonstrate:
They must hold a current DBS (within the last three years) and be competent in clinical history-taking, undertaking clinical assessments and diagnosing in your area of practice.
Please download and complete the Entry Criteria Form then complete the . Please ensure to upload your completed Entry Criteria form when submitting the completed application form.
Please note that both forms must be submitted together for your application to be considered.
This course is based in our modern facilities at StoneX Stadium, a centre of excellence for the London Sport Institute and Health Faculty in the London Borough of Barnet. You’ll have access to the brand new 拢23 million re-development project of the West Stand, offering state-of-the-art facilities as a top educational and high-performance centre for teaching and research excellence. With some of the most advanced equipment in the UK, you will be able to utilise the new specialist spaces, stimulation suites, specialist labs and much more that can aid you with your learning.
Alison HarrisAlison is a community nurse prescriber and is the module leader for this course. She practised as a district nurse in Hampstead and as a bladder and bowel specialist. As a nurse lecturer, Alison is the programme leader for the MSc Nursing Studies and the module leader for the BSc Nursing (Top-up) | Su EverettSu is an independent prescriber and module leader. She continues to practice within her speciality of sexual health | Mary ClarkMary is a health visitor and part of the Children's and Young Persons teaching team at Middlesex. As a V150 prescriber, Mary is part of the NMP teaching team. |
