Graduate Diploma in Child and Family Health

This course provides an opportunity to deepen and broaden your knowledge of caring for children and families, in a variety of health care and community environments.

Throughout the course, you will continue to strengthen your understanding of growth monitoring and developmental assessments, the importance of psychosocial assessment and the central role of parents in the child's environment.

You will also learn how to promote and maintain connections with other services as you prepare to work in partnership with families in a strengths-based model as opposed to the traditional problem-oriented models.

This course prepares you to practise as a professional child and family health clinician who is:

sensitive to the cultural needs of consumers in urban, rural and remote environments reflective practitioner, skilled in consuming and conducting research and evidence-based enquiries.

You will build on professional experiences and reflect and critique knowledge, skills and attitudes about evidence, research and literature and apply this to a practical setting.

Core(8 units) - 80

Compulsory Core units totalling 80 credit points as detailed below:

HEA541

(recoded from HEA401 2016)

HEA542

(recoded from HEA402 2016)

HEA555

(recoded from HEA445 2016)

HEA551

(recoded from HEA441 2016)

HEA552

(recoded from HEA442 2016)

HEA553

(recoded from HEA443 2016) (title change in 2015) (20 day placement and 5 day intensive)

HEA554

(recoded from HEA444 2016)

HEA565

(recoded from HEA450 2016) (20 day placement)

Specialist Elective (0 units) - 0

There are no Specialist Electives.

Electives(0 units) - 0

There are no Elective units.

- 80

Total Credit Points

Applicants must hold current registration as a registered nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). All applicants must have at least two years' employment experience as a registered nurse and provide their employment history through SATAC. Applicants may be asked to provide a curriculum vitae.