Graduate Certificate in Child and Adolescent Health Specialisation

Graduate Certificate

The Child and Adolescent Health specialisation is a graduate certificate suitable for registered nurses interested in early intervention strategies at individual, family, and community levels. Key components include collaborative primary healthcare, physical and psychosocial development, and evidence-based healthcare planning. The course includes a clinical placement and a pre-clinical skills workshop at Curtin Perth.

Key details

Degree Type

Graduate Certificate

Duration

1 semester full-time

Course Code

GC-CAHS

Study Mode

In person, Online

Intake Months

Feb, Jul

About this course

Overview

The Child and Adolescent Health specialisation is available to study as a graduate certificate and as part of the Master of Advanced Practice. It is suitable for registered nurses interested in designing and implementing early intervention strategies at the individual, family and community level.

Key components include:

child and adolescent health within the collaborative primary healthcare framework, and best practice sociocultural health support
physical and psychosocial development of children aged 0 to 18 years within family, education and community environments
applying the evidence-based community models of healthcare planning and clinical decision-making.

Your learning will be consolidated with a clinical placement that includes interprofessional learning and collaboration. Before your clinical placement, you'll complete a five-day pre-clinical skills workshop at Curtin Perth.��

The Graduate Certificate in Child and Adolescent Health Specialisation is offered as an online course that is studied on a part-time basis only. We recommend that you study one or two units per semester. This graduate certificate is available in semester 1.

Note: This course is not available to international students studying in Australia on a student visa. See our handbook for more course information.

Please refer to the handbook for additional course overview information.

�� There are no fees for this workshop. Students travelling to Perth to complete the workshop must arrange (and fund) their travel and accommodation.

Entry requirements

Applicants must hold a bachelor degree and registration as a general nurse in Division One with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) OR must be registered as a midwife. Students need to be able to undertake a compulsory five-day pre-clinical skills workshop at the Bentley campus prior to their clinical placement.

There are no further fees incurred for this workshop but rural students will need to source and fund travel and accommodation expenses. Applicants for this course should refer to the Faculty website for more information on Communicable Diseases and Criminal Record Screening and Clearance.

Please submit the following documents with your application:

Provide proof of professional registration
Provide a CV/resume

This course requires students to complete a clinical practice unit in an approved community agency under the preceptorship of a community health nurse.

Study locations

Online

What you will learn

What you'll learn

identify and apply principles of primary health care into practice to maintain optimal wellbeing of the individual, family and community
assess the environmental, physical and psychosocial aspects of the individual, family and/or community to determine and plan the health care needs within a community practice setting
locate, extract and interpret relevant evidence and scientific literature
communicate both verbally and written, in a way the individuals, family and professional colleagues can understand
use appropriate technologies to practice community health practice
demonstrate ability in interdependent and self-directed learning
incorporate learning opportunities in community practice
recognise national and global community health issues and strategic health care directions; relate these to community practice
provide culturally aware and respectful health care provision to multicultural groups and Indigenous communities; demonstrate professional and ethical practice in community health; work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary health care team

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How to apply

Please review information on how to apply for the campus of your choice

Curtin Perth

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