At Peninsula the Caroline Chisholm School of Nursing offers the Graduate Diploma of Nursing with specialisations in palliative care, community health, psychiatric nursing, and rehabilitation and extended care. Students from a variety of nursing backgrounds will enrol in a compulsory core studies component, together with a major studies strand that relates to their professional nursing needs and interests. An elective studies component is also available to provide flexibility in catering for individual learning needs.
At the Centre for Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing, located at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton campus, graduate diplomas of nursing and of midwifery have been developed with a strong clinical focus. These courses are designed to enable students from the metropolitan and rural areas to access graduate nursing education in a number of clinical specialties. This is achieved through flexible scheduling of core subjects in collaboration with the other two schools in the subfaculty and through clinical practice with a number of collaborating hospitals.
At Gippsland the School of Health Sciences offers the Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Community Health), the Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Gerontics), and the Master of Nursing.
The graduate diplomas are designed to provide registered nurse graduates with advanced knowledge and specialised skills to promote effective functioning in the areas of community health and gerontics.
The Master of Nursing by coursework and minor thesis is designed to provide nursing studies to prepare suitable candidates for positions of leadership and influence in the health care system.
The Centre for Rural Health and the School of Health Sciences at Gippsland offer jointly a Graduate Diploma/Master of Rural Health course (with a multidisciplinary focus) by distance education for registered nurses and medical practitioners. The course design is based on the principles of primary health care and aims to develop and extend knowledge, attitudes and skill of rural health care professionals, in order to prepare them for positions of leadership in research, clinical practice, teaching and management.