Overview
Status: Not on offer
National Framework Of Qualifications (NFQ) Level: 9
NFQ Award Class: Major Award
Duration Full Time: 1 Academic Year(s)
Duration Part Time: 2 Academic Year(s)
Total Credits: 60
Delivery Method: Blended
Connected Curriculum: - Civic and Community Engagement
- Employability
- Inter-and Transdisciplinary
- Research Based Teaching
Graduate Attributes: - Creator, evaluator and communicator of knowledge
- Digitally Fluent
- Effective global citizen
- Independent and creative thinker
- Socially Responsible
Work-Integrated Learning (Including Placement): No
The Postgraduate Diploma in Community and Primary Healthcare is a blended programme that can be completed full-time over one academic year or part-time over 2 academic years. Students take modules to the value of 60 credits.
Exit Award: Postgraduate Certificate in Community and Primary Healthcare (NFQ Level 9, Minor Award)
Students who opt to exit the programme will be awarded a Postgraduate Certificate in Community and Primary Healthcare upon successful completion and passing modules to the value of 30 credits.
Programme Requirements
For information about modules, module choice, options and credit weightings, please go to Programme Requirements.
Programme Requirements
Full-time programme (1 year)
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
| NU6005 | Evidence Based Practice for Healthcare Professionals | 10 |
| NU6044 | Health and Health Promotion: Concepts and Principles | 5 |
| NU6095 | Primary Health Care Services in the Community | 5 |
| NU6302 | Practice Enhancement for Quality Healthcare | 10 |
| NU6175 | Integration and Continuity of Care Across Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Health | 5 |
| NU6176 | Community and Primary Healthcare Clinical Practicum 1 | 5 |
| NU6177 | Community and Primary Healthcare Clinical Practicum 2 | 5 |
| 15 |
| Effective Communication in Healthcare (5) | |
| Allergy and Immunology Focused on Primary Care (5) | |
| Allergy and Immunology: The Nurse’s and Dietetics Perspective (5) | |
| History Taking and Physical Assessment for Nursing Practice (5) | |
| Professional, Ethical, and Legal Decision-making in Practice (5) | |
| Optimising health and wellbeing in older people (10) | |
| Promoting Positive Ageing and Planning for End of Life (5) | |
| Wound Care for Healthcare Professionals (5) | |
| Foundations of Cancer Care (10) | |
| Evidence Based Cervical Screening (10) | |
| Diabetes in Primary Care (10) | |
| Fundamentals of CVD in Primary Care (5) | |
| Contemporary Perspectives of Global Health (5) | |
| Environmental Health: Principal Aspects and Burden of Disease (5) | |
| Principles and Practices of Screening (5) | |
| Total Credits | 60 |
Part-time programme (2 years)
Module List
| Code |
Title |
Credits |
| |
| NU6005 | Evidence Based Practice for Healthcare Professionals | 10 |
| NU6044 | Health and Health Promotion: Concepts and Principles | 5 |
| NU6095 | Primary Health Care Services in the Community | 5 |
| NU6176 | Community and Primary Healthcare Clinical Practicum 1 | 5 |
| 5 |
| Effective Communication in Healthcare (5) | |
| Allergy and Immunology Focused on Primary Care (5) | |
| Allergy and Immunology: The Nurse’s and Dietetics Perspective (5) | |
| History Taking and Physical Assessment for Nursing Practice (5) | |
| Promoting Positive Ageing and Planning for End of Life (5) | |
| Wound Care for Healthcare Professionals (5) | |
| Fundamentals of CVD in Primary Care (5) | |
| Contemporary Perspectives of Global Health (5) | |
| Environmental Health: Principal Aspects and Burden of Disease (5) | |
| Principles and Practices of Screening (5) | |
| |
| NU6302 | Practice Enhancement for Quality Healthcare | 10 |
| NU6175 | Integration and Continuity of Care Across Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Health | 5 |
| NU6177 | Community and Primary Healthcare Clinical Practicum 2 | 5 |
| 10 |
| Effective Communication in Healthcare (5) | |
| Allergy and Immunology Focused on Primary Care (5) | |
| Allergy and Immunology: The Nurse’s and Dietetics Perspective (5) | |
| History Taking and Physical Assessment for Nursing Practice (5) | |
| Professional, Ethical, and Legal Decision-making in Practice (5) | |
| Optimising health and wellbeing in older people (10) | |
| Promoting Positive Ageing and Planning for End of Life (5) | |
| Wound Care for Healthcare Professionals (5) | |
| Foundations of Cancer Care (10) | |
| Evidence Based Cervical Screening (10) | |
| Diabetes in Primary Care (10) | |
| Fundamentals of CVD in Primary Care (5) | |
| Contemporary Perspectives of Global Health (5) | |
| Environmental Health: Principal Aspects and Burden of Disease (5) | |
| Principles and Practices of Screening (5) | |
| Total Credits | 60 |
Examinations
Full details and regulations governing Examinations for each programme will be contained in the Marks and Standards Book and for each module in the Book of Modules.
Programme Learning Outcomes
Programme Learning Outcomes for Postgraduate Diploma in Community and Primary Healthcare (NFQ Level 9, Major Award)
On successful completion of this programme, students should be able to:
- Develop knowledge and critical reflective skills to interpret and evaluate evidence and adopt an evidence-based practice approach to professional practice in the community healthcare, integrated care context.
- Critically examine the multi-dimensional nature of health and the multi-sectorial /disciplinary approaches to health promotion and apply a population health approach to address principles related to equality, diversion, and inclusion.
- Critically reflect upon a variety of contemporary healthcare issues as they relate to primary healthcare theory and practice both nationally and internationally.
- Apply critical theoretical insights, clinical reasoning, and quality improvement approaches/initiatives for the enhancement of health care delivery in the community primary care context.
- Develop ethical and legal knowledge and evaluative skills to enhance professional judgement for enhanced decision making in specialist practice.
- Demonstrate critical reflection on the role and impact of interdisciplinary and collaborative cross boundary team working in meeting service users’ needs in an integrated care system.
- Enhance the’ knowledge and skills in prevention, early intervention, and self-management of conditions in the community and promote an understanding of the importance of integration of services for the continuity of care.
