Postgraduate courses and subjects 2000

Research opportunities exist in the following areas:

· community nursing - a priority area of research and teaching with strong clinical links
· nurse education - including clinical teaching and distance education
· acute care - including innovations in emergency clinical practice; collaborative projects with industry; development of nursing practice standards; and information systems
· palliative care - including community palliative care, integrated models of palliative care; and decision-making issues
· ethical/moral issues - research and philosophical scholarship in relationship to ethical and moral issues
· legal issues - including issues relating to independent practice, the enhancement of scope of practice, and common law issues
· rural health care practice issues and models
· health care management in a range of settings
· paediatric/child health
· family health, women's health, sexual health and adolescents - including the broad areas of family nursing, women's and adolescent health and
· sexual health with academic staff offering expertise across the age and development continuum in these areas
· nursing informatics - including Internet and intranet technologies, interface design, clinical information systems, and educational technologies
· gerontics - a broad range of clinical and management practice issues in aged care and rehabilitation nursing