The Subfaculty of Nursing offers both distance education and on-campus courses.
The Centre for Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing creates a unique partnership between academia and the health care industry offering nurses postgraduate award courses in nursing specialities and providing a major focus for research in clinical nursing and midwifery. The centre offers clinically based graduate diplomas in critical care (with streams in cardiac, nephrology, emergency, and intensive care); perioperative; advanced clinical practice (adult); neonatal and midwifery areas of practice. A Master of Nursing (Research) is also offered.
At the Peninsula campus of the Subfaculty of Nursing, the Caroline Chisholm School of Nursing offers graduate diplomas in various specialties and the Master of Nursing. Nursing specialisation programs in palliative care, community health, psychiatric nursing and aged care leading to advanced nursing practice are currently offered. These courses offer flexibility in teaching methods and subject pathways. It is possible to articulate from graduate diplomas to the Master of Nursing program.
At Gippsland campus the School of Health Sciences offers the Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Community Health), the Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Gerontics), 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 the areas of community health and gerontics.
The Centre for Rural Health and the School of Health Sciences at Gippsland 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.
The Master of Nursing 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 all these sites, via distance education and on-campus, part-time through coursework and minor thesis option, or by research on-campus, full-time or part-time.
Doctor of Philosophy: nurses with advanced qualifications wishing to undertake research and to investigate nursing and midwifery problems from within the health care delivery environment are encouraged to apply.
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