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Overview
What you will learn
The learning objectives of the Tropical Nursing course offered by London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine are:
- Demonstrate capability to plan, implement and evaluate primary care interventions in tropical and resource poor contexts.
- Development of a nuanced understanding of the issues involved in caring for people of differing cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds
- Application and understanding of laboratory methods available at local and district level clinics in resource poor countries, for the diagnosis of infectious diseases and other medical conditions, and for managing patient care based on analysis of the laboratory results
- Develop effective cross cultural communication skills in challenging situations and around sensitive topics such as mother and child health issues.
- Management of major tropical diseases and other complex nursing care for example diarrhoea and vomiting outbreaks in a resource poor setting
- Develop increased resilience and the ability to manage and improvise provision of care in resource poor or complex emergency settings
- Develop skills and approach to lifelong learning and continuing professional development that is grounded in current research.
Programme Structure
The program focuses on:
- Providing students with the latest knowledge and skills relevant to nursing in low and middle income countries (LMIC).
- Facilitating high quality learning that is informed by current knowledge and best practice.
- Enabling students to develop analytical skills for both their careers and future learning.
- Developing effective professionals, able to function well alone or in both team situations.
- Understand and evaluate key issues affecting primary health care in LMIC
- Aim to be able to maximize care in practice with minimum resources
- Demonstrate the importance of promoting health through prevention rather than cure.
- Analyse, critically evaluate and interpret information from a variety of sources
Key information
Duration
- Part-time
- 4 months
Start dates & application deadlines
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Language
English
Delivered
Online
Disciplines
Nursing View 32 other Short Courses in Nursing in United KingdomAcademic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.
Other requirements
General requirements
- The PDTN is available to candidates with a degree who are currently registered as Nurses, Midwives, Paramedics or Allied Health Professionals.
- Any student who does not meet the above minimum entry requirements but who has relevant professional experience may still be eligible for admission.
Work experience
- It is recommended that they have two years post-registration experience by the start of the course applied for.
Tuition Fee
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International
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National
2140 GBP/fullTuition FeeBased on the tuition of 2140 GBP for the full programme during 4 months.
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