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This Higher Education Certificate may lead students into a general Health Sciences program. The Undergraduate Certificate in Health Sciences is designed for people who are interested in pursuing a career in health or allied health professions . The Undergraduate Certificate gives student entry (and credit for the four units completed) into the Bachelor of Science which includes Nursing and Public Health among others at Curtin.  You will receive an introduction to health in social and cultural context and foundational knowledge in health practice and the human structure and function.

Start building your foundational knowledge of human health and healthcare. Explore human bodies. Get to know health practice. For graduates of this online health course, the pathway to health careers and further studies is open wide.

Undergraduate Certificate in Health Sciences

Study Health On Demand with UniSA Online and take full control over your study. Access support seven days a week, plan your study to fit around your life, view learning resources 24/7, and log in to the interactive online environment anywhere, any time and on any device. If you’re new to study, returning after a break, or seeking a pathway into a bachelor degree, this 100% online diploma is the ideal starting point to build your confidence studying at university level, while paving the way for future study in a competitive health degree. In just one year of full-time study, you’ll gain valuable experience learning how to research and write academic assignments, use the software required for university study, and apply critical thinking to analyse advanced concepts. Your UniSA Online Student Adviser will assist you to develop a personalised study plan to ensure your chosen electives align with your study or career goals, building on the foundation knowledge gained through the diploma. You&#39;ll graduate with up to two credits to use towards a UniSA Online Health Science, Community Health or Public Health degree, or you could be eligible to use your GPA to transition into high demand study areas such as nursing, midwifery, physiotherapy, or speech pathology.

Take this online health course as a first step towards a career in the healthcare sector. You’ll study anatomy, human physiology and biosciences. Gain valuable academic skills. Get a feel for uni and think about careers in nursing, pharmacy, and more.

Diploma in Health

The Graduate Certificate of Advanced Wound Care provides an opportunity for students to gain post graduate education in the care and management of wounds in all healthcare settings. Post graduate education targeted to the specialty of wound care is limited in Australia, but necessary to decrease healthcare acquired complications. Delayed wound healing can increase a patient’s length of stay in hospital, or a have prolonged need for outpatient/community wound care services, which impacts costs to both the health service and the patient. This course provides advanced theoretical concepts concerning the assessment and management of simple and complex wounds with course content developed and delivered by experts in the specialty of wound care and management. Applicants are expected to have some working experience in the care and management of wounds as unit discussions and assessment will require you to draw upon this experience.

Further your nursing expertise with this specialised course. Develop advanced wound care and infection prevention techniques to improve patient outcomes. Learn from experts in the field of wound care and management. Study 100% online.

Graduate Certificate in Advanced Wound Care

Further your nursing career with the #1 ranked university for nursing and midwifery*. The Master of Nursing Science is a post-registration master&#39;s program, designed for registered nurses seeking to fast-track career progression in leadership, management, education and research positions such as Nurse Managers, Directors of Nursing, Nurse Educators, and Nurse Researchers.This dynamic coursework program equips you with the skills and knowledge needed to excel in healthcare leadership and innovation, research methods, as well as advanced nursing practice and teaching and learning. The final component of the program is a dissertation providing you with an opportunity to undertake a small-scale research project. This program offers flexibility and can be completed entirely online or through a blend of online and on-campus learning. Whether you choose full-time or part-time study, we provide the support and resources necessary for your success.The Master of Nursing Science is offered full-time and part-time, online and on campus at Nathan campus.The Trimester 3 intake is only available online, part-time.*Tied ranking, 2023 ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking of Academic Subjects

Fast-track your career in healthcare management and innovation. You’ll build skills in nursing education and research. Prepare for advanced practice. Explore quality and safety. Complete a research project. Study with a leading Australian nursing school.

Master of Nursing Science

Interested in learning foundational research methods for mental health practice?This course provides you with foundation knowledge of approaches to research, including an understanding of the standards for quality and rigour required and the skills to apply research in mental health practice.

Learn to assess and support patients in a variety of mental health settings. You’ll work on skills to make confident care decisions. This diploma opens doors to roles in community mental health, drug and alcohol services, and mental health services.

Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing

This course will provide you with the detailed specialised knowledge and skills required to undertake midwifery diagnostics and prescribing including the ordering and interpreting of investigative tests for childbearing women, as well as the safe and effective prescribing of scheduled medicines for your clients.This course has a focus on critical evaluation to enable you to initiate individualised holistic care plans across the childbearing continuum in line with leading professional guidelines.

Learn how to include scheduled medicines and diagnostics in your holistic care plans. Explore applied pharmacology. Unpack antenatal screening and diagnostics tests. You’ll study current professional guidelines and work towards endorsement as a prescriber.

Graduate Certificate in Midwifery Diagnostics and Prescribing

Suited to nurses and other health professionals wanting to develop knowledge and expertise in the care of older adults in a variety of settings.The course aims to develop excellence in leadership, innovation and contemporary care delivery to older adults in a variety of settings (including acute care, community and residential), to meet the rapidly increasing demand for highly skilled professionals.

Open doors to roles in residential aged care, hospitals, and home care settings. You’ll learn to support older persons’ holistic well-being. Unpack the complexities of caring for the aged and working with their families. Explore current policies and standards.

Graduate Certificate in Contemporary Care of the Older Person

The Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing is designed to expand your knowledge and skills in clinical nursing and practice.ACU Online offers a generic Clinical Nursing course as well as the Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing with nine specialisations: correctional health, gerontological nursing, medical, renal, surgical, neuroscience, cardiac care, intensive care and perioperative. By undertaking a specialisation, you will develop your holistic care skills in speciality practice, including person- and family-centred health promotion. Specific knowledge in the areas of bioscience, pharmacology, and lifespan development, relevant to your chosen speciality, will also be explored and applied to your clinical nursing practice.In the cardiac care specialisation, you will explore critical care concepts through the lens of a person- and family-centred focus. Modules explore acute coronary syndromes, heart failure and cardiogenic shock. Rhythm interpretation and common dysrhythmias through normal 12 lead ECG and interpretation of abnormal findings are also embedded within the speciality modules. Other topics such as cardiomyopathy &amp; cardiac valves, Implantable devices, cardiothoracic surgery, cardiac rehabilitation and palliative care in cardiac nursing care are embedded in this speciality module.This course also offers specialisations in the following areas:<ul><li>Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (Correctional Health)</li><li>Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (Gerontological Nursing)</li><li>Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (Medical)</li><li>Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (Renal)</li><li>Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (Surgical)</li><li>Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (Neuroscience)</li><li>Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (Intensive Care)</li><li>Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (Perioperative)</li></ul>Visit ACU Postgraduate Programs for Nurses, for more information.

Care for patients with heart diseases and conditions. You’ll gain specialist skills and knowledge to support patients needing cardiovascular care. Graduate and progress into more rewarding roles or continue your nursing studies.

Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (Cardiac Care)

Building on the Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Nursing, the Graduate Diploma offers units in healthcare ethics, leadership, and a unit interpreting health research. An understanding of evidence-based practice and different research approaches is fundamental to research inquiry and is essential to enable postgraduate students to critically evaluate research literature, and to undertake health inquiry, workplace projects or health research. In addition, the Graduate Diploma offers a specified unit in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, an intervention of choice in contemporary mental health service delivery and is an effective treatment option.Current mental health postgraduate programs in Australia focus on either acute mental health care settings or generic mental health. ACU’s Master of Mental Health Nursing has been developed specifically for nursing clinicians entering into the specialist area of mental health. The course is targeted to new nursing graduates and to those working in mental health but who have no formal postgraduate mental health qualifications.In the current period of mental health service provision reform, there has been a shift in focus from acute inpatient treatment to recovery-oriented practice, so the workforce requires professional development opportunities to keep pace with such changes.

Build on your mental health nursing skills and experience. Upskill to provide personalised care focused on recovery. You’ll cover social inclusion, healthcare ethics, and CBT. Reflect on your practice. Build leadership skills. 

Our suite of Mental Health Nursing programs are developed specifically for nurses entering into the specialist area of mental health. The course is targeted to new nursing graduates and those working in mental health but who have no formal postgraduate mental health qualifications. You will gain knowledge and skills across a range of mental health settings, including acute care, community mental health, and psychosocial rehabilitation and recovery services. Develop advanced leadership skills while you gain a more comprehensive understanding of the health care system and use your expertise to become a change agent.The Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Nursing addresses current mental health perspectives and practices and gives you a comprehensive understanding of illness as well as wellness. The inclusion of diversity and lifetime perspectives will ensure that you are practice ready. In the Graduate Certificate you will undertake units in recovery-oriented mental health, holistic individual centred mental health practice, health promotion and social inclusion along with a unit to develop an in-depth understanding in practitioners of their practice.Current mental health postgraduate programs in Australia focus on either acute mental health care settings or generic mental health. ACU’s Master of Mental Health Nursing has been developed specifically for nursing clinicians entering into the specialist area of mental health. The course is targeted to new nursing graduates and to those working in mental health but who have no formal postgraduate mental health qualifications.In the current period of mental health service provision reform, there has been a shift in focus from acute inpatient treatment to recovery-oriented practice, so the workforce requires professional development opportunities to keep pace with such changes.

Add a formal postgraduate mental health qualification to your nursing skill set. You’ll cover current mental health perspectives and practices. Build leadership skills. Intervene and support people in their recovery from mental illness.

Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Nursing

This unit is designed to equip students with a comprehensive understanding of advanced wound care management through critical examination and application of the latest techniques, technologies, and research. Emphasis is placed on developing skills that enhance patient-centred care and interdisciplinary collaboration in various clinical settings.Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: <a href="http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport</a>.

Advancements in Comprehensive Wound Care

Wound care and infection prevention is a rapidly growing clinical area leading the way for tissue management, infection control, diagnosis, and assessment of critical issues in wound management.  Technologies such as digital, e-health and app-based sources are being rapidly absorbed into clinical practice. With a growing plethora of advanced wound therapies such as interactive dressings, tissue substitutes, and negative pressure wound therapy there are many tools in the clinician’s armamentarium for wound prevention and management.  This unit will investigate contemporary wound management therapies and the role of the digital technologies for wound management. The unit will also investigate the different types of advanced healing therapies, dressings, and devices available for clinical use and critically evaluate the evidence and clinical utility in specific health care settings and regions with a patient centric focus.  Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: <a href="http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport</a>.

Contemporary Wound Management Therapies

This unit is designed to foster knowledge and understanding of the concepts and practices of wound assessment across a variety of different wound types. Participants will develop an understanding of comprehensive assessments of a wide variety of wounds including prevalence, aetiology, anatomy and physiology, holistic considerations, and wound classifications. Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: <a href="http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport" target="_blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport</a>.

Wound Assessment in Practice

This course is the first part of the master’s Research Project and will explore the theory and practice of qualitative and quantitative research processes, to provide students with the essential knowledge integral to undertaking research projects. Through workshops and supervision, the student will develop a detailed project-based proposal which will include a literature review, aim and objectives and or hypotheses, detailed methodology, data collection and data analysis, research ethics, timeline, and budget.

Project Proposal Development

This subject provides an introduction to the field of study, integrating information about maternal and infant mental health. Dominant theoretical approaches are presented and considered together with information about infant development and pregnancy. Risk factors for mental health problems are presented for discussion and reflection, and information is provided about common disorders and treatment approaches. In addition, basic skills relating to building and presenting an argument, accessing and using professional literature, making an observational record, creating documents to professional standards, and managing one’s self under pressure will be covered.

Introduction to Perinatal and Infant Mental Health

This subject facilitates the synthesis of previous knowledge into a framework for advanced practice in a nursing specialty. Theories of role socialization and development, as they apply to advanced nursing within the context of the participant’s own sphere of practice are explored. Major perspectives relating to role definition, performance parameters and outcome measures are integrated into advanced practice through an individualized learning plan. A negotiated learning plan comprises the work and assessment for this course. Each participant negotiates a work plan directly related to their own practice area with the course coordinator. The learning plan, therefore, enables participants to examine and evaluate the scope of practice so that they engage in learning that is directly pertinent to their own professional growth and ongoing development.

Professional Role Development

This subject expose students to the principal forms of research used in nursing and related health contexts. As such, it provides a foundation in research design, methods, data collection and data analysis. Students design, analyse and implement their research, and are allocated a supervisor to assist them through these research stages. Students submit a major scholarly written document in the form of an article that meets the submission requirements of a nominated peer-reviewed journal.

Supervised Dissertation Nursing

This subject introduces the students to key management strategies including management skills, conflict resolution, change management and team building. Topics such as development of leadership capability, leadership development techniques and coaching are included in this subject. The relevant application of leadership theories in this context will also be examined.

Management

Learning from clinical experiences, rather than from formal teaching, is possibly the most important source of personal development and improvement for health professionals. Students in this subject will develop skills in critical reflection and reflexivity as it encourages them to consider alternative approaches to their practice. Students will be encouraged to examine strategies underpinned by theory to address personal or professional matters and to strive to achieve positive outcomes for both themselves and quality patient care.

Emotional Intelligence

This subject examines current contemporary practices in the delivery of complex inter-professional care for people diagnosed with mental health issues. Emphasis on the concepts of promotion, prevention and early intervention will be considered. This subject explores concepts of leadership and management in the context of the development of care from both local and population health perspectives. It enables mental health practitioners and leaders of care to develop strategies to address complex health care alternatives.

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