AdvDip(CPD) Professional Nurse Advocate
Course Overview
Nurses are essential to healthcare, and their ability to provide safe and effective care relies on maintaining good health and wellbeing. In accordance with national policy, this advanced professional development course promotes the importance of restorative supervision through reflective practice, improved communication, and the creation of a safe environment that fosters peer support and collaboration.Throughout the course, you’ll be taught the A-EQUIP model, critically analysing its role in nursing practice and its potential to support governance and quality improvement initiatives. Leadership will be a core theme, examining key concepts and theories, and learning how to implement supportive interventions that enable autonomous practice. By the end of the course, you will possess the knowledge, skills, and qualities necessary for the role of Professional Nurse Advocate, supporting you to thrive both personally and professionally.
Highlights
- Our dedicated academic team have a wealth of experience working in health and social care settings. They are engaged in relevant research, bringing their expertise and passion for service excellence to their teaching.
- This continuing professional development course is flexible and designed to fit in with busy home and working lives.
Key Features
- This short course allows you to enhance your skills quickly – especially useful if you have responsibilities that might otherwise prevent you from studying.
- We've been offering high-quality courses specifically designed to meet the needs of the health and social care sector for over 30 years.
- Regular review of the course curriculum ensures that contemporary theories are adopted.
- Your employer may give you financial support to undertake this course, or you may be self-funded.
Entry Requirements
- This course is for registered nurses only.
- You must hold an active NMC registration.
- You must practice within a healthcare setting that provides NHS or NHS-commissioned services and have access to a professional advocate mentor.
- You must provide evidence that you hold a level 6 certificate in education (for instance, BSc Hons in Adult Nursing) or above (as per standard 4.15 of The Frameworks for Higher Education Qualifications of UK Degree-Awarding Bodies.)
- Those without a level 6 certificate in education must provide evidence of prior learning; where approved, education institutes must support learners to attain the skills and knowledge to study at level 7 (or equivalent).
- Applications should be supported by a statement from your line manager, matron, or education lead.
- This course involves regulated activity so you must gain an Enhanced Disclosure certificate from the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) before starting your studies. Charges are payable to cover the cost of the DBS Enhanced Disclosure application and annual registration with the online Update Service. (Normally your sponsoring organisation will organise this.) Please note that your DBS must have been completed within three years of the course start date.
- You may be required to attend an interview and/or provide a portfolio of work.
- If English isn’t your first language, you’ll also need IELTS 7.0 with normally no less than 6.5 in any band (or equivalent). We also accept a range of other English language qualifications – please visit our English Language Requirements web page for more details.
- Please note that this course is subject to the University's Fitness to Practise procedure.
Where changes are made to material information contained in this course description or a decision is taken to suspend a course between the offer of admissions and enrolment, we will inform applicants at the earliest possible opportunity and will outline the various options available to the applicant.
Career Opportunities
This course offers academic progression for nurses. It provides a trajectory of learning which enhances your existing knowledge, helping you deliver outstanding care.
As a recognised and approved programme of study, this course offers evidence of your continuing professional development and demonstrates you are an autonomous, confident and highly employable practitioner with expertise in the healthcare field.
Fees & Funding
Home/EU Fees
No fee information is currently available, please contact the University of Bolton’s Academic Fees team by emailing AcademicFees@bolton.ac.uk for more information.
International Fees
No fee information is currently available, please contact the University of Bolton’s Academic Fees team by emailing AcademicFees@bolton.ac.uk for more information.
Important note regarding tuition fees: EU nationals who meet residency requirements (have settled or pre-settled status) may be eligible for 'Home' fee status. If you do not meet these residency requirements, overseas fees will apply. Irish citizens living in the UK or Ireland will be eligible for 'Home' fee status under the Common Travel Area arrangement. Please read the student finance for EU students web page on www.gov.uk for information.
The fees for a student's course of study will be set for the normal duration of that course subject only to inflationary increases – measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) recorded in March each year to take effect for subsequent start dates.
How to apply
Home Applicants
Course application details are unavailable at present
International Applicants
Course application details are unavailable at present
Partner Organisation Applicants
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Teaching & Assessment
This course will be delivered using a variety of learning and teaching methods, including lectures, seminars, workshops and tutorials, as well as online discussions and activities posted on the University’s virtual learning environment, Moodle. You’ll be expected to attend all scheduled sessions and prepare for these in advance by undertaking relevant research and background reading.
Formative assessment will support your learning, allowing you to reflect on feedback from your tutors and peers. It takes a variety of forms including the submission of samples of work and does not contribute to the final module mark. Summative assessment is designed to test your achievement of the intended learning outcomes of the course and includes a reflective portfolio and oral assessment.
The university will use all reasonable endeavours to deliver your course as described in its published material and the programme specification for the academic year in which you begin your course. The university considers changes to courses very carefully and the university will minimise any changes. Please be aware that our courses are subject to review on an ongoing basis and changes may be necessary due to legitimate staffing, financial, regulatory and academic reasons. The content of course modules and mode of associated assessments may be updated on an annual basis. This is to ensure that all modules are up-to-date and responsive to employment and sector needs. The published course material and the programme specification contain indicative ‘optional modules’ that may be subject to change due to circumstances outside of our control. For this reason, we cannot guarantee to run any specific optional module.
