Course Overview

This course will enable you to extend your scope of clinical practice to prescribe medicines as an Independent and Supplementary Non-medical Prescriber.

Non-medical prescribing is becoming a well-established means of managing a service user’s condition enabling quicker access to medicines, delivering high-quality, innovative clinical care, and offering choices for service users.

The course explores current practices as well as supports professional and personal development. You will have advanced skills in assessment and diagnosis and have demonstrable expertise in an identified area of clinical practice, e.g. mental health, adult nursing, child nursing, learning disabilities, and midwifery.

General Eligibility

Entry requirements are in line with the general regulations for the conferment of awards although additional entry requirements apply to this program. It is also essential that applicants have professional registration to practice in health and/or social care or equivalent. They must hold an Enhanced DBS Certificate.

It is expected that applicants will have completed a Level 6 or Level 7 History Taking & Clinical Examination course or program prior to starting, and preferably a diagnostic interpretation and reasoning course

Part Time Work Details

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Language Requirement

• If English is not your first language you require an IELTS overall score of 6.0 with no element below 5.5.