Overview

The Children's Palliative Care - Complex Care programme of the University of Galway aims to provide students with the necessary in-depth evidence-based knowledge, skills and competencies to provide quality care to highly dependent children as they live with life-limiting illness and may face the end-of-life.

The programme is offered full-time over two academic years. On completion of the six modules in year one students have the option of being awarded a Postgraduate Diploma or (if they have achieved the minimum 60% average mark across these modules) may progress onto the next year to complete the Master programme.

It consists of both theoretical and clinical components. A blended learning approach is adopted in the delivery of this programme.

Students are required to attend face to face workshops for a total of 12 days across the programme.Additionally, students are required to complete a minimum of 1,000 clinical hours before completing this programme. The course has a clinical focus, offering opportunities to develop specialist skills.The programme is offered through a blended learning format—a combination of online and face-to-face learning and teaching. Blended learning is an innovative and flexible approach to learning, making it possible to combine working full-time with studying. This course is approved by The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland.

Careers

Graduates have found employment and promotion opportunities nationally and internationally in clinical nurse specialist roles (neonatology, palliative care, paediatric palliative or specialist complex care,) specialist community home care, disability or liaison roles and/ or children’s hospice employment.

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Programme Structure

Courses include:

Quality of Life and Symptom Management in Children’s Palliative / Complex Care

Service Improvement

Clinical Governance: Supporting Safe Practice

Care of the Child & Family with Palliative / Complex needs

Specialist Understanding of Complex Care for Children

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Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 24 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2026-09-07 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-05-31 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

88

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PTE Academic

63

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IELTS

6.5

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Credits

90 ECTS

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Galway, Ireland

Disciplines

Public Health Nursing Health Sciences View 98 other Masters in Health Sciences in Ireland

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Academic requirements

GPA

Required

English requirements

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88

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63

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6.5

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Other requirements

General requirements

Be registered on the general, children’s, psychiatric, intellectual disability or midwifery division of the register maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland;
Have a minimum of one year’s post-registration experience (exclusive of post-registration courses);
Be currently working in the required specialist area, i.e., an area associated with palliative care/children’s care/children’s palliative care or allied areas (neonatal, disability, oncology) and have as a minimum six months’ clinical experience in this specialist area;
Complete additional clinical hours in a children’s palliative care/complex setting. Placement length depends on the learning opportunities available to students in their current work setting;
Provide written support from their employer that they will be able to access this client group across the programme;
Have an honours Bachelor’s degree at NFQ Level 8 in nursing or a comparable qualification.

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Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

18000 EUR / year

≈ 18000 EUR / year
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EU/EEA Nationals

9250 EUR / year

≈ 9250 EUR / year

Additional Details

Student Levy €140

Living costs

Galway

Ireland

800 - 1100 EUR / month

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Funding

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General requirements

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