Post Diploma Certificate in Practice of Correctional Health Nursing (part of Specialist Diploma in Nursing (Correctional Health))
About This Course
This PDC is designed for nurses working in correctional settings seeking to enhance their expertise in correctional healthcare delivery. Building upon the first PDC (Principles of Correctional Health).
This PDC focuses on the following:
1. Evidence-based practice, which develops knowledge and skills in applying research and evidence to improve healthcare outcomes in correctional settings (45 hours)
2. Health promotion and counselling, emphasising preventive care strategies and therapeutic communication techniques tailored for incarcerated populations (30 hours), and
3. Advanced nursing care, addressing the management of complex health conditions and medical emergencies encountered in correctional environments. (45 hours)
What You'll Learn
1. devise health promotion and counselling programme with reference to health promotion, disease prevention frameworks and counselling strategies;
2. plan for care of inmates with complex health conditions, emergencies and associated complications in correctional health settings using clinical data compiled through a systematic, comprehensive and focused approach; and
3. apply evidence in correctional health in the development of correctional health practices using principles of evidence-based practice and appropriate appraisal framework.
Entry Requirements
For Post-Diploma Certificate in Principles of Correctional Health:
- be practising in the correctional health setting (or equivalent)
- have a diploma from a local Polytechnic or an equivalent qualification
- have minimum of 2 years working experience with a minimum of 1 year in the discipline of study
- be supported by the employer.
For Post Diploma Certificate in Practice of Correctional Health Nursing:
- be a Registered Nurse with Singapore Nursing Board practising in the correctional health setting
- have a Diploma in Nursing from a local Polytechnic or an equivalent qualification
- have minimum of 2 years working experience with a minimum of 1 year in the discipline of study
- have completed the Post-Diploma Certificate in Principles of Correctional Health of the Specialist Diploma in Nursing (Correctional Health), or, the customised course on “Principles of Correctional Health for Practitioners” from NYP
- be supported by employer.