Advanced Certificate in Clinical Nursing Leadership
The concept of clinical leadership at the point of patient care is an area of increasing interest in health care organizations around the world. The growing literature on nursing, nurses were identified as essential for ensuring effective communication among members of a health care team and the continuity of patient-centered care. Nurses play a vital clinical leadership role in that they are the providers most likely to identify issues and response to the issues that require the coordination of responses of other health team members for timely care.
It was noted that clinicians stated any frontline health care professionals, have opportunities to fulfill leadership roles. There is a concern that many health professionals may not be well prepared to understand the nature of leadership or take on leadership roles because of the lack of content on leadership in undergraduate course curricula. These deficiencies have been recognized by professional organizations and health service providers, especially in light of wide-ranging inquiries into the quality of health services in a number of countries.
By now, there is no clinical nursing leadership program developed and implemented by any institution in Sri Lanka, therefore, considering the discussion that has occurred on the need for clinical leadership, this advance certificate in clinical leadership in nursing has been designed adapting to Medical Leadership Competency Framework (MLCF) to address and fill the gap in leadership competency in clinical nursing. We applied the concepts; working with others (personal qualities, working with team, encouraging contribution), setting direction and managing services from the main concepts of the Medical Leadership Competency Framework and acting with integrity and self- awareness which were included in personal qualities, managing people from the main concept of managing services and encouraging innovation and ensuring patient safety from the main concept of improving services. All modules planned were based on these concepts to improve competency in clinical nursing leadership.
Course commencement: 04.04.2026
Application closing date: 31.03.2026
Registration and 1 st instalment to be completed by:01.04.2026
Instructions for Payment of the Application fee. (Please note that the payment cannot be made by the ATM machine)
Please note that the application fee is NOT refundable under any circumstance.
Payment via University of Colombo Online Payment Portal
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- Follow this link to the University of Colombo Online Payment portal – UOC Online Pay (cmb.ac.lk)
- Then select “Application Fee – Postgraduate Nursing/Technology” for the Fee Type
- Select Visa or Mastercard type.
- Enter your Name, NIC (National Identity Card Number) or Passport Number and select the currency (LKR for the course participants)
- Enter the Amount (Please note that a service charge of Rs. 35 will be added)
- Type the account number ‘337012300001′ for Payment Reference. Then click the verify button.
- Submit your information.
- Check and confirm your details.
- Enter your card details and proceed with the payment.
- You should submit the online payment confirmation receipt/screenshot to the registration portal. Therefore, it is important to save the receipt or take a printout of the receipt or take a screenshot of the transaction at the end of the process.
Payment by direct bank deposits.
If you are making a direct bank account deposit, please use following details. Payments can be made at any branch of Peoples Bank.
- Name of the Bank – Peoples Bank
- Account Name – University of Colombo
- Bank Branch – Thimbirigasyaya Branch
- Account Number- 337012300001
- In the deposit slip please include your name and NIC (Ex: A.B.C.D. Perera – 123456789V)
- A clear photo or a scanned copy of the bank slip should be uploaded in the registration form.
COURSE DETAILS
SLQF Level: 2 / NVQ Level: 4
Minimum credits at level 2: 30C
Designators: Not applicable
Qualifiers: Advanced Certificate in Clinical leadership in Nursing
Abbreviation: AdvCert (Clinical leadership in Nursing)
Progression: Completion of SLQF level 2 meets the minimum entry requirement for a qualification in SLQF level 3 in that particular area of specialization.
Medium: English
Mode of Delivery: Online and Onsite
Type of Program: Competency based outcome program