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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.

Clinical Leadership Level 7 7KANP120

Available dates:

From: 15 January 2024 To: 25 March 2024

Duration:

3 Months

To familiarise you with core theories and concepts of leadership to help you identify your own leadership approach. You will be able to support others in clinical practice to help them optimise their ability to lead change in an evidenced-based clinical environment.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Course closed

£3100

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Continence Care Level 6 6KNIA318

Available dates:

From: 16 January 2024 To: 20 February 2024

This course aims to provide a sound clinical and theoretical basis for continence care.

Assessed Module course

Places available

£1600

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Diabetes: Applied Clinical Practice Level 7 7KANMD02

Available dates:

From: 17 January 2024 To: 27 March 2024

This module is for clinicians, researchers and allied health care professionals in primary and secondary care with an interest in or responsibility for the management of diabetes. This module can be taken as free-standing following successful completion of the foundation module, Diabetes: Principles and Management of Care.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£3100

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Diabetes: Principles of Care and Management Level 7 7KANMD01

Available dates:

From: 20 September 2023 To: 06 December 2023

Duration:

10 sessions over a period of 13 weeks

This module is for clinicians, researchers and allied health care professionals in primary and secondary care with an interest in or responsibility for the management of diabetes. Successful completion will allow students to progress to the Diabetes: Applied Clinical Practice free-standing module and the award of PG Cert with the possibility to apply for the PG Dip and MSc.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£3100

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Digital Health and Technology Solutions 7KANP121

Available dates:

From: 26 September 2023 To: 05 December 2023

Duration:

11 days of Learning over 11 weeks

This module will introduce core concepts and principles related to use of technological solutions in healthcare.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£3100

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ECG: Measurement and Interpretation Level 6 6KNIC314

Available dates:

From: 15 January 2024 To: 25 March 2024

This course enables you to understand principles of electrocardiography interpretation and apply those to rhythm strip and 12-lead ECG interpretation.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1600

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English for Healthcare

Available dates:

From: 01 September 2023 To: 31 August 2024

Duration:

4 weeks

Develop your language and communication skills for a career in healthcare and learn new healthcare vocabulary in English.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Places available

£0

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Evidence & Research as the Basis of Care Level 7 7KANP001

Available dates:

From: 28 September 2023 To: 14 December 2023

Duration:

3 Months

This module provides students with an understanding of research including research methodologies and methods, and the research process and its application to healthcare. The ability to determine the quality of research is essential if nurses are to implement the findings of research in their practice. It provides a foundation in qualitative and quantitative research methods, adopting a structured approach to the evaluation of research evidence and its application to clinical practice. Students will be trained to think strategically while undertaking the postgraduate course, which is useful when writing at length such as a dissertation.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Course closed

£3100

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Evidence-Based Practice Level 6 6KNI0319

Available dates:

To be confirmed

Duration:

6 days over a 9 week period

This module develops the knowledge and skills required to provide evidence-based care in your clinical setting.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1600

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Genetic Risk Assessment & Counselling Level 6 6KNIN640

Available dates:

From: 02 May 2024 To: 07 June 2024

Duration:

4 days

This Specialist Practitioner course has been designed with National Sickle Cell & Thalassaemia Screening Programme. It is intended to provide a benchmark of professional competence to health professionals involved in counselling women and couples 'at risk' of having a child with sickle cell disease or thalassaemia.

Assessed Module course

Opening soon

£3100

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Contact us

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