Postgraduate study designed to advance your practice in nursing and social care

Are you a health or social care practitioner keen to develop an understanding of the knowledge and evidence that positively contributes to the health and wellbeing of persons, groups and populations?  QMU's Division of Nursing and Paramedic Science offers a flexible suite of postgraduate courses with person-centred practice at their core that will give you a valuable, career-expanding qualification. 

Including part-time and online options, our courses reflect the burgeoning focus on person-centredness set within the contemporary context of health systems integration and the health and wellbeing agenda. This reflects professional and service needs, as identified by the relevant professional bodies, other stakeholders and policy drivers.

We live and work in a multi-professional and multi-faceted health systems environment. The need to be cognisant and masterful when dealing with the concepts of research, enquiry, abstraction and unpredictability has seldom been so important. The challenge of promoting person-centredness in such an environment requires skilled and talented practitioners who can operate in advanced clinical, educational, managerial and research-based roles.

The learning and teaching approaches for our courses are underpinned and informed by three core values central to person-centred learning:

• Each individual’s learning and practice experience and the context in which that learning occurs are significant. It enable the student to make explicit their values, question and defend assumptions and learn from experience and feedback. We value and capitalise on the individual diversity of our students and the richness that their knowledge brings to learning.
• We recognise that learning is a lifelong process for both students and educators. Focusing on the processes of learning is fundamental to our learning and teaching approaches. You will be expected to draw on your previous knowledge and skills to inform your postgraduate study and will benefit from a variety of interesting ways to participate and share experiences and opinions with your peers. This is achieved through the provision of a facilitative environment, which encourages reflection and sharing of knowledge and experiences as a basis for personal and professional growth, along with use of humanistic and adult learning theories that promote valuing and respect for others, relevance of learning and recognition of emotional aspects of learning.
• Our commitment to scholarship and effective feedback will aid you in the development of new ideas and theories and lead to a questioning and analytical approach. We aim to develop your ability to challenge conventional assumptions and we actively encourage students to develop collaborative partnerships both internally and externally that will feed the healthcare sector of the future. The learning methodologies we use focus on discussion, debate and collaborative and individual approaches to problem solving and management. Our aim is to produce enlightened and focused healthcare professionals equipped to deal with the challenges of working in a complex and ever-changing healthcare sector.