CareerFit CourseFinderNursing - Children's Palliative Care & Complex Care
- Course code
- MHSC-CPCC
- QQI level
- Level 9
- NFQ type
- Level 9 NFQ
- Duration
- Postgraduate Diploma: 1 year full-time Masters: 2 years full-time (if eligible for second year following Postgraduate Diploma).
- Attendance
- Full time
- CAO points
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Postgraduate Diploma (Level 9 NFQ)
Galway
NFQ Level 9
Course summary
The Master/Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences (Children’s Palliative / Complex Care) is facilitated by both the teaching teams at University of Galway and UCD. The programme designed for Registered Nurses working with children and adolescents with complex or life limiting conditions. The programme aims to provide students with the necessary in-depth evidence-based knowledge, skills and competencies to provide quality care to highly dependent children as they live with life-limiting illness and may face the end-of-life.