1999 Medicine Handbook - Graduate courses

Graduate courses

Graduate courses are offered at all campuses in a wide range of specialties.
The Master of Nursing course is designed to provide nursing studies to prepare suitable candidates for positions of leadership and influence in the health care system. The course is offered at the Centre for Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton and the School of Nursing, Gippsland and Peninsula campuses on a full-time or part-time basis by on and off campus study as well as offshore in Hong Kong.
The Centre for Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing operates through a unique partnership between academia and the health care industry to offer nurses the opportunity to study from a practice-driven, field-based perspective. The centre is located at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, which is the tertiary referral hospital of the Southern Health Care Network. This location offers students and staff of the centre ready access to the clinical environments of the Southern Health Care Network that are so integral to the postgraduate courses offered by the centre.
The centre offers a full range of postgraduate courses. The Graduate Diploma of Nursing (with streams in adult clinical, anaesthesia/post anaesthesia, cardiac, children, critical care, emergency, intensive care, neonatal, perioperative or renal) and the Graduate Diploma of Midwifery have been designed to develop the knowledge and skills required for specialist nursing practice. These graduate diplomas have been designed to articulate with the Master of Nursing which is available through course work; course work and thesis; or by research. The Master of Nursing offers the opportunity for the development of advanced clinical practice skills within the student's particular area of clinical specialisation. The Doctor of Philosophy is available for those nurses with advanced qualifications who wish to undertake clinical nursing research.
The School of Nursing offers the Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Community Health), the Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Gerontics), the Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Palliative care), the Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Psychiatric Nursing), 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 these specialty areas. These courses offer flexibility in teaching methods and subject choice. It is possible to articulate from graduate diplomas to the Master of Nursing program.
The Centre for Rural Health and the School of Nursing, Gippsland campus, 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 the knowledge, attitudes and skills of rural health care professionals, in order to prepare them for positions of leadership in research, clinical practice, teaching and management.