Nursing & Midwifery - Advanced Leadership - Nursing

Advance your theoretical knowledge and develop a critical and questioning approach as you explore professional, clinical and managerial issues relevant to leadership roles with RCSI School of Nursing and Midwifery.



Enhance your capacity for leadership by developing your knowledge in key areas of leadership, management, strategy and change management and explore concepts of quality improvement and risk management. This programme is delivered part-time via an active blended learning approach including self-directed learning and live online classes approximately once every week.



Further support is provided through the module lead, programme director and regular online drop-in sessions.



The award title for this course is Postgraduate Certificate Nursing (Advanced Leadership).



This course is a Level 9 award on the Irish National Framework of Qualifications



Suitable for

This programme welcomes registered nurses at all levels of their career – from those who aspire to enter management, to nurses in managerial positions who want to develop key competencies and skills.

What you will learn

Advanced Leadership and Management - Professional and Clinical

Advanced Management and Strategy

Change Management: Theory and Practice

To be eligible for the programme you must:



Have an NFQ Level 8 qualification. Applicants who do not hold a Level 8 qualification may still be eligible to join the programme through our supported-entry pathway programme.



Have an active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. International applicants must be registered with their national nursing board.



Recognition of prior learning (RPL)

If you do not meet the minimum academic requirements above, you may still be eligible to apply through recognition of prior learning (RPL). RPL is the assessment of knowledge, skills and competence previously acquired.



Learning occurs in many contexts which include work, involvement in social and community activities, or learning through life experience generally. RPL does not give credit for experience as such; rather it considers the learning that was acquired as a result of the experience.



RPL may be used to gain:



Admission to courses/programmes where a person may not have obtained the standard entry requirements.

Exemptions from course modules which duplicate the learning outcomes an individual has already demonstrably acquired through prior learning.



English language requirement exceptions

English language requirements for RCSI Postgraduate programmes are published at

https://www.rcsi.com/dublin/postgraduate/policies-and-guidelines/english-language-requirements



If you have completed undergraduate/postgraduate full-time studies in the medium of the English language (three or more years cumulatively) or are registered with the NMBI, you are exempt from these requirements.

6 months



Mode of delivery

Online - Part-time

Fees and funding

•Total fees: Fees are currently being reviewed for 2020/21 and will be released shortly.


Please note

•Your annual fees include the €45 NUI fee.

•There is a non-refundable online application fee of €50.

•Fees can be paid by bank transfer, cheque (made payable to 'RCSI') or bank giro. Full details on fee payment will be emailed to you shortly before the commencement of your programme.

•You can pay your fees in three instalments – one payment of 40% is due before you commence the programme, while the remaining payments can be paid in two 30% instalments in November and February of your year of study.

•If you meet the criteria for a Non-EU student please contact us for more information on fee payments

Next start date October 2025

Upon the successful completion of this programme, students can progress to a Postgraduate Diploma.