Program Overview
The Graduate Certificate in Children's Cancer Nursing is a part-time, one-year program designed for nurses seeking specialized knowledge and skills in caring for children with cancer. The program includes modules that cover theory, assessment, and clinical practice. Graduates will be prepared for roles in clinical nurse specialist, CNM/Educational/Clinical Facilitator, and other specialized settings. The program emphasizes critical thinking, professional values, and a commitment to providing holistic care within a family-centered context.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
The Graduate Certificate in Children’s Cancer Nursing is a part-time, one-year program designed for registered nurses who wish to deepen and broaden their knowledge and expertise in the care of children and adolescents with cancer. The program aims to:
- Advance the student's repertoire of knowledge, skills, attitudes, and professional values in the care of children with cancer.
- Provide the student with the requisite knowledge, skills, attitudes, and professional values for the advancement of their role in the care of children with cancer, including critical analysis, creative thinking, decision making, and communication.
- Develop a greater understanding of the theory that underpins Children’s Cancer Nursing practice, including theory in the social and behavioral sciences and theory in the biomedical sciences.
- Provide learning experiences that advance the student's professional development and personal growth and experiences that affirm the student's capacity to be a self-directed learner.
- Advance the student's sense of professional awareness, commitment, and a sense of professional responsibility and accountability in Children’s Cancer Nursing.
- Enable the student to value learning as a continuous process and as a necessary process in the context of their professional role in Children’s Cancer Nursing.
Outline:
The program is broken down into two semesters and includes a variety of modules.
Assessment:
Assessments are varied and include:
- Assignments
- Short examination questions
- Multiple-choice questions (MCQ)
- Case presentations
- Clinical assessments (Clinical Competency Assessment Tool, Clinical Learning Outcomes)
Teaching:
The program utilizes a variety of pedagogical approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment to enhance the student experience. Learning takes place in multiple environments across the university and clinical setting. Learning is facilitated by the use of a variety of innovative pedagogies and technologies to meet emerging student, professional, and health system needs. The involvement of cancer clinicians and paediatric oncology clinicians in teaching and assessment is a major strength of the program. Other strengths of the program include student-centered clinical placements in designated cancer centers and program co-ordination by a program director with clinical expertise in cancer nursing, appropriate education and research qualifications, and who is actively conducting cancer-related research.
Careers:
Upon successful completion of the program, graduates will receive a Graduate Certificate in Nursing (Children’s Cancer Nursing). This is a highly regarded qualification for nurses caring for children with cancer in Ireland. Graduates will be well-positioned to work in a variety of settings specializing in this area both nationally and internationally. As the program is particularly aimed at preparing nurses to assume the role of clinical nurse specialist, many nurses eventually take up CNS positions and some may undertake further study required for the role of ANP in children’s cancer nursing. Many nurses also proceed to assume CNM/Educational/Clinical Facilitator roles.
Other:
The Graduate Certificate in Children’s Cancer Nursing is an academic and clinically based program designed for students who wish to deepen and broaden their knowledge and expertise in the care of children and adolescents with cancer in order to provide safe, effective, and holistic care to these individuals in the context of family-centered care. The program builds upon and advances students' existing knowledge, skills, and values to promote students' capacities for critical thinking and critical self-appraisal. The purpose of the program is to advance the students' sense of professional awareness, commitment, professional responsibility, and accountability in the context of childhood cancer. The program is concerned with the promotion, enhancement, and maintenance of health in the context of childhood cancer. The Graduate Certificate in Children’s Cancer Nursing recognizes that individual, family, social groupings, and cultures influence the life experiences of children diagnosed with cancer and that healthcare practitioners have a social responsibility to promote health. The Graduate Certificate in Children’s Cancer Nursing curriculum is student-focused, research-led, and research informed. A wide variety of pedagogical approaches to teaching, learning, and assessment are used to enhance the student experience, thereby encouraging the incremental development of learning. The curriculum is developed with stakeholder involvement to ensure that it meets the current and future needs of cancer nurses who work in a complex and evolving healthcare system.
GradCert Children's Cancer Nursing (X683) Part Time EU fee per year - € 7370 nonEU fee per year - € 14550
