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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.

Patient Safety and Cultural Variance 7KANP004

Available dates:

From: 25 April 2024 To: 11 July 2024

Duration:

4 months

This module will explore the important issue of patient safety through the lens of multiple cultures. It will allow students to explore how patient safety is impacted by both the micro-cultures that develop in the workplace as well as macro-cultures including ethnicity, tradition, religion and gender. Students will explore how physical, psychological and spiritual health is influenced by hospital practices and cultures on the diverse populations of the world.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Opening soon

£3100

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PhD Funding Proposal Development in Healthcare Research Level 7 - 7KANR001

Available dates:

From: 25 April 2024 To: 13 June 2024

Duration:

8 week course

This module provides nursing and midwifery students with the experience of preparing a grant application suitable for submission to a funding agency.

Assessed Module course

Opening soon

£3100

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Preparing for an International Health Elective: Exploring Global Health, Ethics and Safety

Available dates:

From: 01 September 2023 To: 31 August 2024

Duration:

3 weeks

Prepare for undertaking an International Health Elective, in this course developed in collaboration with King's College London and St George's

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Places available

£0

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Principles for Managing Long-Term Conditions 7KANP122

Available dates:

From: 23 April 2024 To: 09 July 2024

Duration:

4 months

Health systems are the building blocks of delivering healthcare and meeting health objectives through the organisation of people, services and resources. The effectiveness and efficiency of how care processes are organised and managed is an increasingly important agenda globally. This module focuses on understanding the principles of good governance, policy development and standard setting to ensure effective risk management and the monitoring of quality, care and conduct of clinical practice and services.

Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course

Opening soon

£3100

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Recovery Nursing Level 6 6KNIN636

Available dates:

From: 24 April 2024 To: 03 July 2024

The module offers an introduction to the contemporary theory relevant to the role of the nurse in the PACU, alongside an assessment of clinical practice and is most appropriate for nurses with proven experience within the environment.

Assessed Module course

Opening soon

£1600

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Renal Nursing Level 6 6KNIN369

Available dates:

From: 18 January 2024 To: 28 March 2024

Duration:

September through to December

This course aims to prepare practitioners working in renal ward and haemodialysis units for their role within renal health care.

Assessed Module course

Places available

£3100

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Research Methods & Statistics in Palliative Care 7MRSAC23

Available dates:

To be confirmed

Duration:

2 weeks

This module aims to describe and illustrate the methods available for research in palliative care, leaving students able to understand, appraise and develop research studies.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1960

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Research Methods Level 6 6KNIN611

Available dates:

From: 26 September 2023 To: 08 December 2023

Duration:

Term 1 - 8 study days spread over 11 weeks

This module will equip students with the ability to both understand and apply research in practice.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1600

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Service Development and Policy in Palliative Care Level 7 7MRSAC21

Available dates:

From: 17 April 2024 To: 28 April 2024

Duration:

2 weeks

This course considers the historical and international perspectives of palliative care practice and policy to develop and manages services using evidence based clinical practice. It overviews the ways services have developed and how this is affected by different cultures, communities, resources and policies.

Assessed Module course

Places available

£1960

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Stroke Care Level 6 6KNIN336

Available dates:

To be confirmed

Duration:

2 months

This module is for nurses working in stroke care who want to advance their practice, enhance their understanding and application of research evidence, and develop their contribution to the interdisciplinary team.

Assessed Module course

Places available

£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