Graduate Diploma of Clinical Nursing

Learning outcomes

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

1. Implement advanced practice knowledge, skills and competencies that enhance their capacity to work safely and effectively in a dynamic and challenging healthcare environment in the hospital and community.
2. Communicate with influence and negotiate persuasively to achieve optimum outcomes for healthcare consumers from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
3. Model professional behaviours to colleagues and students that provide clients with culturally appropriate and socially just care within a medico-legal framework.
4. Cultivate productive working relationships by facilitating inclusiveness and valuing diversity within the healthcare team.
5. Actively contribute to the professional development of a range of members within the healthcare team.
6. Establish a mechanism for lifelong learning by reflecting on practice to apply and build professional expertise.
7. Steer and implement change by conducting national and international research retrieval and enquiry that incorporates philosophical, technical, and social justice perspectives on healthcare.

The Graduate Diploma 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.

• NURS5230/5231 Reflective Practice
• NURS5021 Management
• PHIL6020 Ethics for Professional Life

To be eligible for the award of Graduate Diploma of Clinical Nursing students must complete a minimum of 200 Units of Credit chosen from the courses listed in Appendix A comprising:

• 200 Units of Credit from eight (8) compulsory Courses

Total Units of Credit for Year One: 200