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Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care

Short courses aimed at developing expertise and improving patient care to help you fulfil your potential and boost your career prospects.

As a student on one of our short courses led by the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, you’ll be taught by leaders in the field. Everything you learn will be up to speed with the latest changes in practice and help you effectively approach the spectrum of challenges you face every day.

Flexible learning that fits in with you

Fitting in education can be a challenge when working as a healthcare practitioner. But we’ve designed courses that offer the flexibility you need to study around your commitments and slot learning into your current lifestyle. Our work-based learning option gives you the chance to achieve an academic qualification, without putting your career on hold. You’ll learn from your experiences in the field and sharpen skills vital to your role.

Continuous learning, lifelong development

Taking a short course at King’s can be just the beginning of your professional and academic development. Our short courses are individual modules, which make up core and optional components of our degree and diploma courses. When you pass a module, you will receive academic credit, which is a way of quantifying and recognising learning whenever and wherever it is achieved. The amount of credit you receive will vary based on the length of the module. If you decide after taking one of our modules that you want to study a degree or diploma course, then you could use the credit you’ve achieved to count towards your overall credits for your chosen degree or diploma course. This is known as recognition of prior learning (RPL). You can find out more about how it works for degree or diploma courses in the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care on our webpages.

Interested in studying one of our degree or diploma courses?

Take a look at the undergraduate and postgraduate courses on offer.

23/24 Application Dates

Term 1 modules will open at the end of July and close 31 August

Term 2 modules will open at the end of September and close 15 November

Term 3 modules will open at the end of January and close 15 March

For Work Based Learning modules, please see individual module pages.

Please note: free standing modules will only run if there are sufficient numbers.

Applying Epidemiology in Palliative Care Level 7 7MRSAC20

Available dates:

From: 24 June 2024 To: 05 July 2024

Duration:

2 weeks

This module considers the application of epidemiological principles in the investigation of palliative care problems. The epidemiology of cancers and other common progressive diseases will be reviewed along with the use of epidemiological approaches to study patient and family needs and to evaluate services.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1960

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Applying psychosocial, culture, spiritual and ethical issues to palliative and end of life care 7MRSAC24

Available dates:

From: 15 January 2024 To: 26 January 2024

Duration:

2 weeks

This module aims to critically examine the psychosocial, cultural, ethical and spiritual issues relevant to patients and families/carers in palliative and end of life care, providing course participants with the skills to apply them in clinical practice.

Assessed Module course

Places available

£1960

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Assessment and Management of Symptoms in Advanced Diseases 7MRSAC22

Available dates:

From: 06 November 2023 To: 17 November 2023

Duration:

2 weeks

This module reviews the epidemiology and pathophysiology of progressive incurable illnesses, which are relevant to specialists in palliative care. It then reviews the aetiology, mechanisms and management of common symptoms in palliative care leaving participants with the skills to assess and manage symptoms and appraise new therapies appropriate to their professional group. Pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions are considered.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1960

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Cardiac Care: Symptoms and Management of Heart Failure Level 6 6KNIN844

Available dates:

From: 23 April 2023 To: 18 June 2024

This online module will enable students to have a critical understanding of the symptoms of heart failure and their management.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1600

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Cardiac Care: Symptoms and Management of Heart Failure Level 7 7KNIM879

Available dates:

From: 23 April 2024 To: 18 June 2024

This module will enable students to become an expert in managing symptoms and providing care for patients with heart failure.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1600

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Assessment and Treatment Level 6 6KNIM603

Available dates:

From: 15 May 2024 To: 06 June 2024

Duration:

8 days spread over 5 weeks

The module will enable students to have a critical understanding of the assessment and treatment of common mental health problems in childhood and adolescence.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£3100

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Child and Adolescent Mental Health: Assessment and Treatment Level 7 7KNIM765

Available dates:

From: 15 May 2024 To: 06 June 2024

Duration:

8 days spread over 5 weeks

The module will enable students to have a critical understanding of the assessment and treatment of common mental health problems in childhood and adolescence.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£3100

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Children's Emergency Nursing - Level 7 7KNIF302

Available dates:

From: 16 January 2024 To: 12 March 2024

Duration:

3 months

Children’s emergency medicine continues to develop as a distinct speciality requiring specialist trained practitioners to cope with an ever changing, unpredictable environment. Nurses working in this setting require a level of knowledge, skills and competence in both emergency nursing skills and in the care of children and young people. This course aims to critically evaluate current practices and facilitate new and shared knowledge through a process of assessment, intervention and evaluation of care.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Places available

£3100

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Children's Emergency Nursing Level 6 6KNIF302

Available dates:

From: 16 January 2024 To: 12 March 2024

The landscape of urgent and emergency care provision for children and young people is ever changing and often challenging. This module allows those working in this environment the opportunity to challenge current practice as well as creating a space to build a cross-hospital learning community.

Assessed Module course

Places available

£3100

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Children's High Dependency Care Level 6 6KNIF310

Available dates:

From: 15 April 2024 To: 27 May 2024

This course is designed to meet the needs of children's nurses working in both general and specialised areas.  It aims to develop the practitioner's skills and expertise in caring for children requiring high dependency nursing.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1600

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Contact us

    To find out more about Nursing short courses, please send an enquiry to eu.khan@kcl.ac.uk