Nursing courses, undergraduate, postgraduate and distance education are conducted by the School of Nursing based at the Gippsland and Peninsula campuses of Monash University. The Centre for Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing offers postgraduate courses and is located at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton.
The
School of Nursing offers undergraduate degrees conducted on the Gippsland and
Peninsula campuses.
The Bachelor of Nursing degree consists of three years of full-time study.
Graduates may apply for registration as a Division I nurse with the Nurses
Board of Victoria. Part-time study is available at Peninsula campus.
The Bachelor of Nursing (Post Registration) consists of two years of part-time
study designed, for registered nurses with current practicing certificates to
upgrade to a degree. The course is offered on campus at Peninsula, by distance
education at Gippsland and is available offshore in Hong Kong and Singapore.
The course may also be taken over one year of full-time study at the Peninsula
campus.
The honours degree of the Bachelor of Nursing consists of a fourth year of
study for those students who demonstrate academic ability to pursue higher
degree studies in the discipline of nursing. The course is offered part-time at
Gippsland and Peninsula (two years), and available full-time at Peninsula (one
year). It is offered by distance education at Gippsland, on campus and `mixed
mode' at Peninsula.
The
Centre for Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing operates through a unique
partnership between academia and the health care industry to offer nurses the
opportunity to study from a practice-driven, field-based perspective. The
centre is located at Monash Medical Centre, Clayton, which is the tertiary
referral hospital of the Southern Health Care Network. This location offers
students and staff of the centre ready access to the clinical environments of
the Southern Health Care Network that are so integral to the postgraduate
courses offered by the centre. The centre is recognised as a department within
the Faculty of Medicine and has collaborative links with the School of
Nursing.
The centre offers a full range of postgraduate courses. The Graduate Diploma of
Nursing (with streams in adult clinical, anaesthesia/post anaesthesia, cardiac,
children, critical care, emergency, intensive care, neonatal, perioperative or
renal) and the Graduate Diploma of Midwifery have been designed to develop the
knowledge and skills required for specialist nursing practice. These graduate
diplomas have been designed to articulate with the Master of Nursing which is
available through course work and thesis; or by research. The Master of Nursing
offers the opportunity for the development of advanced clinical practice skills
within the student's particular area of clinical specialisation. The Doctor of
Philosophy is available for those nurses with advanced qualifications who wish
to undertake clinical nursing research.
At the Gippsland campus the School of Nursing 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 School of Nursing, Peninsula campus offers the Graduate Diploma of Nursing
(Aged Care), the Graduate Diploma of Nursing (Community Health), the Graduate
Diploma of Nursing (Palliative care), the Graduate Certificate/Diploma of
Nursing (Psychiatric Nursing), and the Master of Nursing. These courses offer
flexibility in teaching methods and subject pathways. It is possible to
articulate from graduate diplomas to the Master of Nursing program.
The Centre for Rural Health and the School of Nursing, Gippsland campus, 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 course 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 the Centre for Graduate Studies in
Clinical Nursing, Monash Medical Centre, Clayton and the School of Nursing,
Gippsland and Peninsula campuses on a full-time or part-time basis.
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.