Postgraduate Certificate In Nursing In Leadership and Quality Healthcare

Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest

The Postgraduate Certificate in Nursing in Leadership and Quality Healthcare programme is aimed at nurses who wish to advance their academic and professional development. The nursing profession is dynamic and evolving with societal needs and care needs of individuals, families and communities. Nurses are challenged by the sophistication of technological, medical and social advancement and with the ever-increasing divergence in social inequalities, presenting nursing with a new agenda for transformation. The Postgraduate Certificate in Nursing in Leadership and Quality Healthcare programme provides the nurse with a broad-based educational experience to practise at a higher level incorporating key concepts such as clinical decision-making, professional leadership, and quality initiatives. Upon successful completion of this programme, graduates will have developed a mastery of complex and specialised knowledge and a critical awareness of issues at the forefront of nursing. They will have an advanced understanding of how techniques of enquiry enable the critical and objective analysis, interpretation and scholarly evidence. Graduates are ideally placed to progress to postgraduate diploma studies.