Graduate Certificate in Advanced Nursing Specialisations: Neonatal Nursing

Caring for newborns with significant medical issues demands a skilled team with specialised expertise. As a neonatal nurse specialist, your focus will be on providing supportive health care of newborns.

Graduate Certificate in Neonatal Nursing will enhance your current nursing knowledge and abilities by focusing on neonatal nursing methods and specialised talents. You will feel confident in your ability to use these abilities when giving nursing care to a sick infant and assistance to the family.

This online course is intended to equip you as an expert in this very demanding field of nursing. This area of nursing is a highly technical one that requires the ability to provide complex care by concentrating on newborn evaluation and nursing management. You will use clinical reasoning skills and evidence-based specialised nursing knowledge.

Scope of practice in neonatal advanced nursing course:

• Use the advanced knowledge gained from the course to pursue further education
  • Post graduate certificate in neonatal nursing
  • Master of nursing
  • Master of advanced nursing practice, then leads to neonatal nurse practitioner (NNP)
  • Path way to PhD in nursing
• It provides advanced knowledge and skills for the provision and coordination of evidence-based care for the neonate and the family in a clinical setting & enhances career advancement as:
  • Entry to metropolitan tertiary hospital NICU environment (Advanced neonatal clinical care)
  • Leadership roles: Research nurse
  • Clinical nurse specialist
  • Clinical support nurse and nurse educator role
  • Research nurse
  • Nurse unit managers, case manager (care manager)
  • Neurodevelopmental care nurse
  • Discharge planning coordinators
  • Lactation nurse consultants
  • Eye nurse( retinopathy screening nurse across Victoria)

• Application: Submit your online application by clicking "Apply Online" on the top right corner of the course page.
• Interview: If you meet IHM's eligibility criteria you'll be contacted for an interview with an admissions consultant.
• Offer Letter: If you're successful with the interview you'll be offered a place for the course.
• Enrolment Fee: Once you sign the acceptance offer, an invoice will be issued for the course.
• Confirmation of Admission: Once you've paid the enrollment fee, we'll send a confirmation of admission to you.