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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.

24/25 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.

Acute Oncology (Work-based learning) Level 6 - 6KANAOWB

Available dates:

From: 03 October 2024 To: 05 December 2024 From: 10 April 2025 To: 05 June 2025

This module offers an opportunity to acquire academic credit for learning gained from specific educational activities undertaken in your workplace

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£565

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Acute Oncology (Work-based learning) Level 7 - 7KANAOWB

Available dates:

From: 03 October 2024 To: 05 December 2024 From: 10 April 2025 To: 05 June 2025

This module offers an opportunity to acquire academic credit for learning gained from specific educational activities undertaken in your workplace

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£565

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Acutely Ill Adult and High Dependency Nursing Level 6 6KNIA327

Available dates:

From: 09 January 2025 To: 06 March 2025

The aim of this module is for nurses to develop the necessary knowledge and skills to holistically assess and implement the evidenced-based care required to meet the specific needs of the acutely ill and high dependent patient.

Assessed Module course

Available

£3400

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Adolescent Healthcare: Meeting the Challenge Level 6 6KNIE610

Available dates:

To be confirmed

This course covers the health and medical problems that are specific to adolescents and young people. As well as what methods of prevention, treatment and management are significantly different for adolescents and young people, rather than for children or adults.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£1700

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Advanced Assessment Skills for Non-Medical Practitioners Level 7 7KNIP030

Available dates:

From: 09 January 2025 To: 21 March 2025 From: 25 April 2025 To: 04 July 2025 From: 26 September 2024 To: 13 December 2024

Duration:

19 days

This module will enable experienced healthcare practitioners to acquire additional assessment and physical examination skills, in order to integrate advanced assessment findings into clinical decision making.

Assessed Module course

Available

£3400

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Advanced Qualitative Research Methods Level 7 7KNIP041

Available dates:

From: 16 January 2025 To: 13 March 2025

This module explores the use of qualitative research approaches in healthcare research

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£3400

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Advanced Quantitative Research Methods 7KNIP042

Available dates:

To be confirmed

This modules provides a solid grounding in quantitative research method.

Assessed Module course

Course closed

£3400

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Applied Pathophysiology in Advanced Practice Level 7 7KNIM777

Available dates:

From: 22 January 2025 To: 27 March 2025 From: 30 April 2025 To: 03 July 2025

Duration:

11 days spread over 10 weeks

The module provides healthcare professionals with an opportunity to develop their knowledge and skills in assessing, diagnosing and managing patients with common pathologies and conditions.

Assessed Module course

Available

£3400

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Applying Epidemiology in Palliative Care Level 7 7MRSAC20

Available dates:

From: 23 June 2025 To: 04 July 2025

Duration:

2 weeks

This module considers the application of epidemiological principles in the investigation of palliative care problems. The epidemiology of cancers and other common progressive diseases will be reviewed along with the use of epidemiological approaches to study patient and family needs and to evaluate services.

Assessed Module course

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£2078

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Applying psychosocial, culture, spiritual and ethical issues to palliative and end of life care 7MRSAC24

Available dates:

From: 13 January 2025 To: 24 January 2025

Duration:

2 weeks

This module aims to critically examine the psychosocial, cultural, ethical and spiritual issues relevant to patients and families/carers in palliative and end of life care, providing course participants with the skills to apply them in clinical practice.

Assessed Module course

Available

£2078

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Contact us

    To find out more about Nursing short courses, please send an enquiry to eu.khan@kcl.ac.uk