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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.

Neonatal Nursing: Special Care Level 6 6KNIN626

Available dates:

To be confirmed

Duration:

5 days spread over 8 weeks

This course has been designed in partnership with NHS Trusts to enable nurses to care for neonates and their families requiring special care.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1600

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Neuroscience Nursing Level 6 6KNIC308

Available dates:

From: 25 April 2024 To: 20 June 2024

Duration:

8 sessions over 8 weeks

This module is for nurses working with patients with acute neurological disease or post neurological trauma who want to develop specialist neuroscience nursing knowledge in the assessment, planning and delivery of acute neurological care.

Assessed Module course

Opening soon

£3100

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Newborn and Infant Physical Examinations (NIPE) - Level 6 6KMWPQ01

Available dates:

From: 24 April 2024 To: 05 June 2024

The aim of this module is to prepare the midwife with the knowledge and understanding required to undertake a NIPE (Newborn and Infant Physical Examination) in line with local and national evidence-based guidance.

Assessed Module course

Opening soon

£3100

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Nurse or Midwife Independent and Supplementary Prescribing Level 7 7KNIP016

Available dates:

From: 23 April 2024 To: 13 August 2024

Duration:

11 days of blended learning plus 15 self-directed days over 26 weeks

This module aims to equip nurses and midwives with the principles of prescribing, to enable them to prescribe safely, appropriately and cost effectively as independent or supplementary nurse prescribers.

Assessed Module course

Opening soon

£3920

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Optimising Kidney Utilisation 2022

Available dates:

To be confirmed

Duration:

1 day

This one-day virtual course from King’s College London (King’s) is designed for surgeons, nephrologists, trainees and specialist nurses interested in developing decision-making skills in deceased donor kidney utilisation.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Course closed

£200

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Pain Management Level 6 - 6KNIA315

Available dates:

From: 23 April 2024 To: 11 June 2024

Duration:

6 days over 8 weeks

Pain is a universal human experience and the most frequent reason people seek support from healthcare professionals. Overall, the module aims to promote the development of practitioners that can expertly assess, plan, implement and critically evaluate pain management strategies for a variety of patient/clients.

Assessed Module course

Opening soon

£3100

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Pain Management Level 7 - 7KNIA315

Available dates:

From: 23 April 2024 To: 11 June 2024

Duration:

6 days over 8 weeks

Pain is a universal human experience and the most frequent reason people seek support from healthcare professionals. Overall, the module aims to promote the development of practitioners that can expertly assess, plan, implement and critically evaluate pain management strategies for a variety of patient/clients.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£3100

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Palliative and End of Life Care Foundations Level 6 6KNIS321

Available dates:

From: 08 May 2024 To: 09 May 2024

The module focuses upon the core principles of palliative care with the aim of embedding this into initial and ongoing assessments of patients requiring palliative care.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1720

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Palliative and End of Life Care: Symptom Management Level 6 6KNIN643

Available dates:

From: 22 January 2024 To: 24 January 2024

This module aims to equip registered nurses with the knowledge and skills to provide active holistic palliative care to patients with advanced progressive illness in any setting. The module is run jointly with St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham, London.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1720

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Palliative and End of Life Care: Symptom Management Level 7 7KNIM745

Available dates:

From: 22 January 2024 To: 24 January 2024

This module aims to equip registered nurses with the knowledge and skills to provide active holistic palliative care to patients with advanced progressive illness in any setting. The module is run jointly with St Christopher’s Hospice, Sydenham, London.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1720

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Contact us

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