Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of the Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing graduates will be able to:

1. Integrate comprehensive knowledge and skills required of the Registered Nurse to plan and provide increasingly complex assessments, diagnoses, interventions, and evaluations for patients from diverse cultural and social backgrounds
2. Critique models and theories of nursing practice and apply them to the current healthcare context
3. Communicate effectively and negotiate confidently
4. Employ clinical reasoning and decision-making strategies that enhance organisational capability and responsiveness
5. Collaborate with a range of healthcare professionals to provide excellent patient care and achieve common goals
6. Model professional behaviours to colleagues and students that provide clients with culturally appropriate and socially just care within a medico-legal framework
7. Cultivate productive working relationships by guiding, mentoring, and developing nursing students and colleagues
8. Establish a mechanism for lifelong learning by reflecting on practice to apply and build professional expertise
9. Conduct research retrieval and enquiry to debate contemporary clinical nursing challenges on the global stage, incorporating philosophical, technical, and social justice perspectives

The Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing will allow qualified nurses to become clinical leaders in their chosen fields. Careers include nurse educators, nurse managers, nurse practitioners, nurse researchers or research managers.

• NURS5162 Transition to Clinical Practice 1
• NURS5163 Transition to Clinical Practice 2
• NURS4037 Clinical Governance
• NURS4019 Nursing Practice 1
• NURS4026 Nursing Practice 2
• NURS4027 The role of a mental health practitioner in an acute setting
• NURS4028 Contemporary palliative care nursing practice 1
• NURS5000 Deteriorating patient

Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Requirements.