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PgDip in Wound Management and Tissue Viability (Nursing)

€6,970

Master advanced wound management and tissue viability skills and learn how to transform patient care on this comprehensive online programme delivered by expert wound management professionals.

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PgDip in Wound Management and Tissue Viability (Nursing)

€6,970

Master advanced wound management and tissue viability skills and learn how to transform patient care on this comprehensive online programme delivered by expert wound management professionals.

Award

Postgraduate Diploma

Duration

1 year

Mode of delivery

Hybrid - Part-time

Credits

60 ECTS

Next start date

September 2025

About

Advance your knowledge and skills with the PgDip in Wound Management and Tissue Viability from the RCSI School of Nursing and Midwifery.

Delivered by international wound management experts, this highly clinically relevant one-year online programme provides postgraduate students with guidance on the management of acute and chronic wounds in all healthcare settings, as well as the research skills necessary to play an important role in ensuring wound care practice continues to be based on the best evidence.

You will gain a specialist skillset based on best practice and the latest research and evidence, while exploring and analysing existing theories and concepts that are fundamental in wound management and tissue viability.

Combining self-paced content with live interactive sessions, this programme supports you to acquire the essential skillset to progress in your clinical nursing specialist career.

The award title for this course is Postgraduate Diploma Nursing (Wound Management and Tissue Viability).

RCSI School of Nursing and Midwifery
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Enhance your clinical judgement in wound evaluation

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Develop specialised skills in tissue viability

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Discuss person-centred care approaches and considerations

Suitable for

This programme is suitable for nurses caring for patients with wounds.

What you will learn

Advanced Research Methods
Advanced Leadership and Management – Clinical and Professional
Advancing Professional Practice
Advanced Concepts in Wound Healing and Tissue Repair
Critical Issues in the Assessment and Management of Individuals with Leg Ulceration and Lymphoedema
Critical Issues in the Assessment and Management of Individuals with Pressure Ulcers and Diabetic Foot Ulcers

What our students say

Urmila Victor

“The professors are passionate and highly knowledgeable in the area of wounds and are eager to help students ... I found RCSI to be a culturally diverse university with equal inclusion for students from all over the world ... "

Urmila Victor, Tissue Viability Clinical Nurse Specialist, Peamount Health Care Services

Faculty highlight

Introduction to Wound Management and Tissue Viability at RCSI

Meet Professor Zena Moore, Head of School of Nursing & Midwifery at RCSI, and find out more about the aims, structure, and background of the Wound Management and Tissue Viability programme.

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Course information

This programme will provide you with the skills and knowledge to:

  • Demonstrate a critical understanding of a comprehensive range of knowledge in the specialist area.
  • Articulate a critical awareness of the latest evidence-based knowledge in the specialist area.
  • Demonstrate a range of research and specialist knowledge and skills to the specialist area of clinical practice.
  • Select from a broad range of specialist skills and knowledge in the specialist area.
  • Act in a comprehensive and often unpredictable variety of professional and ill-defined contexts in the specialist area.
  • Take significant responsibility for the work of individuals and groups and lead and initiate activity in the specialist area.
  • Critically self-evaluate professional and personal learning needs and those of others within your specialist area of practice and link to related continuing professional development requirements.
  • Present a reflective and questioning approach to specialist practice delivery and exhibit professional application of your knowledge in an accountable, responsible and evidence-based manner.

Graduates of this postgraduate diploma who wish to take a further step may enrol onto the master's programme – the MSc Nursing (Wound Management and Tissue Viability) – and undertake Year 2 of the full programme, completing a systematic review.

The programme will begin in September each year.

This programme is assessed through a range of assessment modalities.

All Postgraduate Diploma programmes offered by the School of Nursing and Midwifery are accredited by RCSI, the National University of Ireland and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. Recognition by bodies in other jurisdictions must be determined by individual applicants.

Admissions

  • Applicants must hold an NFQ Level 8 qualification. However, applicants who do not hold a Level 8 qualification may still be eligible to join the programme through our supported-entry pathway programme. This is subject to an assessment of prior learning and experience.
  • Must have an active registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland or other registration in a country in which they are practicing if international students.
  • Must be working in the specialist practice of the programme for the duration of the programme.
  • Must provide a clinical learning agreement signed by a director of nursing or designate.

Learning occurs in many contexts including work, involvement in social and community activities, and learning through life experience generally.

Recognition of prior learning (RPL) does not give credit for experience as such – rather, it considers learning that was acquired as a result of the experience. RPL may be used to gain admission to programmes where you may not have obtained the standard entry requirements. This is considered on a case-by-case basis.

Exemptions from programme modules that duplicate learning already demonstrably acquired through prior learning may also be considered on a case-by-case basis.

For more information, please contact the School of Nursing and Midwifery:

English language requirements for Postgraduate programmes are published here.

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.

The fees for this programme are €6,970.

Please note:

  • Fee includes all resources, access to our award-winning online learning portal and access to extensive RCSI-only databases.
  • Fee includes an NUI fee.
  • Fee is payable via the above schedule, where relevant.
  • If you have outstanding fees you will not be entitled to receive your grades or be eligible to progress and or graduate (VLE and Library privileges will be withdrawn in these cases).
  • RCSI accepts no obligation to refund any fee, or part thereof, in respect of a student who chooses to withdraw from a programme.
  • If you choose to withdraw from a programme you are liable for full fees owed for the seat on that programme.
  • All NUI parchments are issued in Latin; you will be required to pay an additional fee of €50 to NUI if you wish to have a parchment published in English.
  • Fees are subject to review annually.
  • If you are being sponsored or funded by your employer you should upload a funding confirmation letter in the document upload section on the application portal.)

Please view our Postgraduate fees policy for more information.

How to apply

Applications for this programme are currently closed. For guidance or further information please contact nursing@rcsi.ie.