Nursing
Professional Development
The School of Nursing, DCU offers a number of the modules on both the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes on a stand-alone basis. For further programme details on these, please contact the programme co-ordinators. In parallel to this, a set of modules have been devised specifically to support professional development of nurses, many with the support of project grants from the National Council for the Professional Development of Nursing and Midwifery. For further details on the content of these, please contact Tracey Harrington by email at tracey.harrington@dcu.ie .
Listed below is the full range of modules that would be available to be taken on a stand-alone basis. This listing is comprehensive and is intended to give an indication of the range of modules on offer in the School of Nursing. In any academic year, it is not anticipated that all of these modules will be offered and run on a stand-alone basis.
- Cardiovascular Health Management for Nurses in Primary Care
- NS447 - Blood Donation and Trunsfusion
- NS448 - Haemovigilance Practice
- NS449 - Professional Development for Specialist Practitioners
- NS5015 - Advancing Transfusion Practice
- NS5016 - Developing Haemovigilance Service
- NS290 - Psycho-Oncology - a programme for volunteers
- NS408 - Nursing & Health Promotion
- NS415 - An Introduction to Nursing Management
- NS417 - Teaching & Assessing
- NS419 - Nursing the Individual with Challenging Behaviour & Mental Health Problem
- NS430 - Cardiovascular Health Management
- NS474 - Context and Concepts of Intellectual Disability Nursing
- NS475 - Working with Serious Mental Illness
- NS478 - Solution Focused Approaches in Professional Practice
- NS480 - Nursing Care of Children with Inherited Metabolic Disorders
- NS481 - Foundation in Counselling and Psychotherapy Theory & Practice
- NS483 - Nursing Care of Children with Asthma
- NS484 - Psycho-Oncology - Working with People affected by Cancer 1
- NS485 - Nursing Care of Children with Diabetes
- NS486 - Care of Children with Neurological Disorders
- NS488 - Telephone Nursing:Remote Assessment Decision
- NS5001 - Engagement Assessment and Decision Making
- NS5002 - Work-based learning 1 - Role Performance
- NS5003 - Work-based learning 2 - Change Implementation
- NS5004 - The Person in Health Care
- NS5005 - Working for Inclusion
- NS5006 - Strategic Management in Health Care
- NS5007 - Relating, Enduring and Suffering
- NS5008 - Advanced Teaching and Learning Strategies
- NS5009 - Health Promotion and Epidemiology
- NS5010 - Applied Pathophysiology and Pharmacology
- NS570 - Counselling and Psychotherapy Thoery and Practice (Humanistic Approaches)
- NS571 - Preparation for Practice (Cognitive Behavioural Approaches)
- NS572 - Theory & Practice of Counselling & Psychotherapy (Psychodynamic Approaches)
- NS573 - Working with Relationships
- NS574 - Advanced Theory & Practice of Counselling & Psychotherapy (Systemic Approaches)
- NS575 - Advanced Theory and Practice in Working with Relationships (Multi-Model Approaches)
- NS576 - Spirituality, Meaning and Clinical Practice
- NS577 - Research in Counselling and Psychotherapy
- NS578 - Contextual Issues in the Practice of Counselling & Psychotherapy
- NS580 - Psycho-Oncology - Terminal Illness & Bereavement
- NS581 - Psycho-Oncology - Working with People affected by Cancer 2
