Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Critical Care)

• The course
• Aims
• Objectives
• Entry requirements
• Course outline
  • Core components
  • Specialist studies

The course

MMC, Clayton
Course code: 1243
Course coordinator: Ms D Mackechnie
The Centre for Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing (MMC Clayton) offers a Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Critical Care) in partnership with the Southern Health Care Network. In collaboration with relevant health care agencies, the course responds to industry needs for highly educated acute medical-surgical, high dependency and generic care nurse clinicians in metropolitan, regional and rural hospitals. Clinical practice is included in the course and takes place in a variety of settings throughout metropolitan and south-eastern Victoria.

Aims

The course aims to:

• facilitate acquisition and application of knowledge, skills and attitudes for competent clinical practice;
• foster awareness of the divergent needs of different health care organisations and clients;
• promote professional values of critical care and high dependency nursing specialisation, including nursing accountability and professional development.

Objectives

Upon completion of all course requirements, it is expected that graduates will:

• demonstrate competency in the performance of complex clinical skills within the critical care, high dependency environment;
• explore complex and life threatening health breakdown and related nursing implications;
• pursue problem-solving methods for individual nursing decision making, intervention and evaluation;
• use research methods for improving nursing practice and patient outcomes;
• examine a range of professional issues relating to current and future critical care, high dependency nursing practice;
• reflect on critical care, high dependency practice as it relates to nursing individuals ranging from the highly technological environment to the community.

Entry requirements

Successful applicants will normally have:

• a degree;
• a current RN practising certificate; and
• at least one year professional clinical experience

Special entry to the course is available.

Course outline

Students will be required to undertake three core subjects and five specialist subjects, for a total of eight subjects. Students may enrol full-time and complete the course in one year. Alternatively, in a part-time enrolment, students will normally complete the course in two years. Subjects are scheduled in a manner which enables the students to undertake part-time employment.

Core components

• CNS6101 Research utilisation
• CNS6201 Health, caring, environment and technology
• CNS6202 Research in health care environments

Specialist studies

• CNS6301 Advanced pathophysiology
• CNS6401 Critical care concepts 1
• CNS6402 Critical care concepts 2

plus a choice of two from the following:

• CNS6501 Emergency nursing 1
• CNS6521 Intensive care nursing 1
• CNS6531 Cardiac nursing 1

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