Graduate Diploma in Clinical Nursing

As a Registered Nurse, this course will build upon your current skills and knowledge to enable you to work in a speciality area of clinical nursing, including:

acute care cancer chronic conditions emergency intensive care mental health orthopaedics paediatrics perioperative renal.

You will also focus on cultural awareness in the health practice context and build on existing knowledge and understanding of nursing practice, assessment and evidence-based practice.

In the increasingly complex and challenging world of health care, this course provides an opportunity to enhance your existing clinical knowledge and build capacity to move into further study and research.

The course focuses on development of knowledge and skills in clinical practice and intellectual engagement through critical analysis and reflection relevant to nursing practice and education.

All applicants must select a preferred clinical speciality from the list of options available.

Core Units(6 units) - 60

Compulsory Core units totalling 60 credit points as detailed below.

HEA541

(recoded from HEA401 2016)

HEA542

(recoded from HEA402 2016)

HEA563

(recoded from HEA420 2016)

HEA564

(recoded from HEA440 2016)

HEA565

(recoded from HEA450 2016)

(no longer available) (recoded from SNP402 2016) (replaced by

HEA525

from S2 2020)

Specialist Elective(2 units) - 20

Units totalling 20 credit points selected from the list of available units detailed below. Paediatric Stream Students in this stream must adhere to the study plan and complete HEA551 Child and Family Health Knowledge Practice 1 (recoded from HEA441 2016) plus one other Specialist Elective from the list below: EMG505 Research Methodologies in Global Learning HEA561 Health Assessment in a Bio/Psycho/Social Context (recoded from HEA408 2016) HEA562 Practice Evaluation Strategies (recoded from HEA409 2016) HEA568 Transplantation (recoded from SNP408 2016) HEA569 Independent Study (recoded from SNP410 2016) (no longer available from 2019) PHM523 Health Promotion PHM525 Indigenous Health Research PHM536 Health Systems Planning and Management PHM570 Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Disease PHM588 Qualitative Research Methods Acute Care, Cancer, Chronic Conditions, Emergency, Intensive Care, Mental Health, Orthopaedics or Perioperative Stream Students in this stream must adhere to the study plan and complete HEA561 Health Assessment in a Bio/Psycho/Social Context (recoded from HEA408 2016)

plus one other Specialist Elective from the list below: EMG505 Research Methodologies in Global Learning HEA551 Child and Family Health Knowledge and Practice 1 (recoded from HEA441 2016) HEA562 Practice Evaluation Strategies (recoded from HEA409 2016) HEA568 Transplantation (recoded from SNP408 2016) HEA569 Independent Study (recoded from SNP410 2016) (no longer available from 2019) PHM523 Health Promotion PHM525 Indigenous Health Research PHM536 Health Systems Planning and Management PHM570 Epidemiology and Control of Communicable Disease PHM588 Qualitative Research Methods Renal Stream Students in this sequence must adhere to the study plan and complete the 2 units below: HEA561 Health Assessment in a Bio/Psycho/Social Context (recoded from HEA408 2016) HEA568 Transplantation (recoded from SNP408 2016)

Electives(0 unit) - 0

There are no elective units.

- 80

Total Credit Points

Applicants must hold current registration as a registered nurse or registered midwife with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA). All applicants must have a minimum 0.6 full time current employment in the stream for which they are applying and provide details of their professional responsibilities in the form of a curriculum vitae as part of the online application through SATAC.