Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Intensive Care)

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

The course

MMC, Clayton
Course Code: 1627
Course Coordinator: Ms D Mackechnie
The Centre for Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing (MMC Clayton) offers a Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Intensive Care) in partnership with the Southern Health Care Network. This course is offered to nurses who wish to persue a challenging specialty career in the highly technological environment of intensive care. An extensive and diverse range of clinical experience is offered, incorporating adult and paediatric patients with a wide variety of complex health problems.

Aims

The course aims to:

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

Objectives

On completion of the course it is expected that graduates will:

• demonstrate competency in the performance of complex clinical skills within the intensive care environment;
• explore complex and life threatening health breakdowns and their 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 intensive care nursing practice;
• reflect on intensive care practice as it relates to nursing individuals in a range of environments from the highly technological to home.

Entry requirements

Successful applicants will normally have:

• a degree;
• a current RN practising certificate; and
• at least one year of 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
• CNS6521 Intensive care nursing 1
• CNS6522 Intensive care nursing 2

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