Graduate and Post Graduate Certificate Fundamentals of General Practice Nursing
Designed to equip healthcare practitioners with the knowledge and skills to deliver person-centred care in General Practice
CPD for healthcare professionals

For any queries regarding admissions or enrolments, please contact the Professional Development Unit Admissions team
Email: pduadmissions@plymouth.ac.uk
Telephone: +44 (0)1752 586951
Visit: Professional Development Unit, Level 4 Rolle Building, University of Plymouth, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, United Kingdom.
Opening hours:
Monday–Thursday 8.30–7:00
Friday 8:30–16:30.
The Fundamentals of General Practice programme is made up of three modules: Transition into General Practice, Embedding in General Practice and Advancing within General Practice.
Credits
60
FHEQ Level
Level 6 (degree) or Level 7 (masters)
You will be supported in your academic studies by the programme lead and teaching team. In your clinical area you should be supported by your team leader or senior nurse and wider team to consolidate your competences.
Comprehensive tutor support and feedback will be available throughout the programme.The programme is undertaken over a nine-month period. It is delivered via blended learning consisting of 18 face-to-face taught days, six days of highly directed study (HDS) with four specific clinical skills training days offered to students as a face to face option during the timetabled HDS days. This is in order to meet your role-specific training needs. There is additional e-learning which will form part of preparation for taught sessions and provide evidence to support competences.
The programmes’ assessed learning outcomes (ALOs) are module specific and slightly different, depending on whether you undertake level 6 or level 7 studies.
Programme specification
This programme aims to prepare practitioners moving into General Practice with knowledge, skills and capability to deliver person-centred care across the life course, understanding wider influences and principles of population health, generalism and integrated partnership working.
Education and training is quality assured and benchmarked against national standards to support practitioners to practice safely and effectively within their scope of professional practice.
Transition into General Practice
Degree – level 6
By the end of the module, the student will be able to:
Masters – level 7
By the end of the module, the student will be able to:
Degree – level 6
By the end of the module, the student will be able to:
Masters – level 7
By the end of the module, the student will be able to:
Advancing within General Practice
Degree – level 6
By the end of the module, the student will be able to:
Masters – level 7
By the end of the module, the student will be able to: