Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Intensive Care)


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:

Objectives

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

Entry requirements

Successful applicants will normally have:

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
Specialist studies