Graduate Diploma in Nursing

Description

This is a 36-unit course which aims to give students the opportunity to enhance their knowledge and skills in one of a selected range of practice-based streams and to extend their general theoretical knowledge. Students are required to complete 18 units of core topics and 18 units of a chosen specialty stream from those listed above.

This course also offers a Coursework stream where students are required to complete 18 units of core topics and 18 units from selected topics offered by the various specialty streams listed above, enabling students to design a stream based on their interests rather than a specific practice area.

Students who successfully complete the Graduate Certificate in Health (Palliative Care) stream may be granted credit towards the Graduate Diploma in Nursing and the Master of Nursing.

Requirements

Applicants for the Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma must:

hold a nursing or midwifery degree or equivalent qualification, and
be registered general nurses, and
hold a current practising certificate.
Some streams also require a minimum amount of post-registration experience. Information is available from stream details listed above.

Applicants for the Master of Nursing must meet the above requirements and have a minimum of two years’ post-registration experience.

Candidates for pathways 4 or 5 of the Master of Nursing must also provide with their application a brief statement detailing a proposed research area for the research project component.

However, the Faculty Board may, under certain circumstances and subject to specific conditions, admit others who can show evidence of fitness for candidature.