Graduate Diploma of Nursing Practice (Perioperative)

Description

The Graduate Diploma course is designed to prepare nurses to meet the complex challenges within the speciality practice area of perioperative nursing and to progressively build upon knowledge and skills to explore the specific roles within perioperative nursing practice. The course responds to the demands of industry and partnership/collaborating hospitals for nurses with sophisticated perioperative specialty skills and knowledge. The course continues knowledge development in specialty streams of intraoperative perioperative nursing and anaesthetic/post anaesthetic perioperative nursing.



The use of learning technologies such as Deakin Studies Online (DSO), teleconferencing, eLive, and iLectures will facilitate student engagement in a large proportion of the specialist units.



A compulsory introductory five day program on the Melbourne Campus at Burwood is normally held in the second week of February.



On completion of the Graduate Diploma course, students are eligible to continue studies towards the Master of Nursing Practice. The Master of Nursing Practice (by coursework) may be entered directly from a Graduate Diploma of Nursing Practice (Perioperative) [requires an additional 4 credit points of study].



Students wishing to complete the Master of Nursing Practice by research and undertake the 4 credit point minor thesis must have completed HNN727 Research in Nursing and Midwifery, and must achieve a Distinction or above for 75% of the units undertaken in the Graduate Diploma of Nursing Practice specialty course.

Requirements

The course is open to registered nurses who possess a Bachelor of Nursing degree, or an equivalent approved qualification. In addition, applicants must be currently registered as a Division 1 nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia and will normally have completed at least 12 months recent acute care nursing experience. Students may also be required to attend an interview as part of the selection process.

Notes

On successful completion of course, students will hold a Graduate Diploma of Nursing Practice (Perioperative). Graduates of the course are qualified to gain employment within specialty areas of perioperative nursing in all states and territories of Australia.

Clinical Practice
Students normally are employed within a collaborating hospital for a minimum of 24 hours per week to support and provide a sound clinical learning environment for the clinical program requirements of the course. Where concurrent employment is not possible, clinical practicums may be negotiated.