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Graduate Diploma in Nursing Science (Emergency Nursing)
GD.NSEmerg
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| Location: | Teaching Hospitals |
| Duration: | 1 year
(full-time or
part-time equivalent)
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| Degree/Award: | Graduate Diploma |
Emergency Nursing is concerned with the care of people who present to emergency departments (ED). People who present to EDs come with a wide variety of complaints, some attend with minor injuries or illnesses while others are brought to the ED with life threatening emergencies. The emergency nurse needs to be able to sort everyone into categories, so that the sickest person is seen first and then to be able to initiate best practice care. In order to accomplish this, emergency nurses need to understand the pathophysiology of emergency conditions and how these are manifested in signs and symptoms. Emergency nurses also need to know how to care for minor injuries and illnesses, as this is an area in which nurses are becoming increasingly involved with the introduction of nurse practitioners.
The Graduate Diploma in Nursing Science (Emergency Nursing) provides graduates with a rigorous grounding in emergency care. This will include cardiac rhythm and ECG interpretation, chest radiograph interpretation, oxygen therapy and many more skills. The following areas of traumatic injury will also be covered; thoracic, spinal, head and brain, orthopaedic, abdominal, burns and paediatric injuries. This will provide students with a broad grounding in pathologies that cause people to present to emergency departments.
Students will also graduate with a sound practical knowledge of; physical examination, history taking, body systems examination, initiating infusions, haemodynamic monitoring, defibrillation, external cardiac pacing, assisting with endotracheal intubation, triage, intermittent positive pressure ventilation, plastering, bandaging and splinting, using crutches, suturing, paediatric and adult resuscitation, preserving forensic evidence, pain management, grief and loss, and discharging patients.
Successful completion of Semester 1 specialty courses is a prerequisite for continuing in Semester 2 specialty courses.
SPECIALITY CORE COURSES
Nursing & Medical Science in Emergency Nursing I
Units: 4 units
Teaching period: Semester 1
This course builds on the clinical and core courses in the specialty of Emergency Nursing. The focus is on physiology, biochemistry, therapeutics and nursing science.
Nursing & Medical Science in Emergency Nursing II
Units: 4 units
Teaching period: Semester 2
This course builds on Nursing and Medical Science in Emergency Nursing I and the other specialty emergency courses. The focus is on physiology, biochemistry, therapeutics and nursing science.
Emergency Nursing I
Units: 4 units
Teaching period: Semester 1
This course largely consists of field based learning within the area of Emergency Nursing, supported by workshops. It focuses on advanced clinical skills acquisition, through field based learning within the area of Emergency Nursing. The skills associated with patient assessment and advanced life support form the central component of this course.
Emergency Nursing II
Units: 4 units
Teaching period: Semester 2
This course builds on the student's previous learning in Emergency Nursing I. Similarly it focuses on advanced clinical skill acquisition, particularly those skills associated with the care and treatment of minor injuries.
CORE COURSES
Developing Advanced Practice in Health Systems I
Units: 4 units
Teaching period: Semester 1 or Semester 2
This course examines contemporary issues related to advanced nursing practice and considers the supports and constraints within which nurses practice. Topics include ethics of care, leadership, advocacy, evidence based practice, health service management, professional standards, health informatics and multicultural health care.
Developing Advanced Practice in Health Systems II
Units: 4 units
Teaching period: Semester 1 or Semester 2
This course examines the evaluation of clinical practice through clinical audit. Students progress through a series of readings and activities that introduce clinical audit and then progressively work through the processes involved in the development, conduct and reporting of an audit of clinical practice.
Focused Reading in Clinical Nursing (for students granted advanced standing)
Units: 4 units
Teaching period: Semester 1 or Semester 2
This course examines contemporary clinical nursing practice through a critical review of the literature with a focus on acute care nursing practice. Students are required to follow a protocol to ensure scientific rigour and minimise potential bias.
Choose your applicant type to view the relevant admissions information for this program.
I am a:
| SATAC Code | 3GD034 |
| Annual tuition fees
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Commonwealth-supported place: $5,310
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| Mid-year entry? | Yes |
| Enquiries | Student Centre |
Not an international applicant?
| IELTS Total | 6.5 [more info] |
| Annual tuition fees
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International student place: $23,100 |
| Mid-year entry? | No |
| Enquiries | Student Centre |
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IELTS
Total
Reading
Listening
Speaking
Writing
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6.5
6
6
6
6
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Not an international applicant applying with Australian year 12 results?
| Annual tuition fees
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International student place: $23,100 |
| Mid-year entry? | No |
| Enquiries | Student Centre |
The study plans
given are examples of pathways through this degree. For a complete description,
see the program rules.
SPECIALITY CORE COURSES
Nursing & Medical Science in Emergency Nursing I
Teaching period: Semester 1
This course builds on the clinical and core courses in the specialty of Emergency Nursing. The focus is on physiology, biochemistry, therapeutics and nursing science.
Nursing & Medical Science in Emergency Nursing II
Teaching period: Semester 2
This course builds on Nursing and Medical Science in Emergency Nursing I and the other specialty emergency courses. The focus is on physiology, biochemistry, therapeutics and nursing science.
Emergency Nursing I
Teaching period: Semester 1
This course largely consists of field based learning within the area of Emergency Nursing, supported by workshops. It focuses on advanced clinical skills acquisition, through field based learning within the area of Emergency Nursing. The skills associated with patient assessment and advanced life support form the central component of this course.
Emergency Nursing II
Teaching period: Semester 2
This course builds on the student’s previous learning in Emergency Nursing I. Similarly it focuses on advanced clinical skill acquisition, particularly those skills associated with the care and treatment of minor injuries.
CORE COURSES
Developing Advanced Practice in Health Systems I
Teaching period: Semester 1 or Semester 2
This course examines contemporary issues related to advanced nursing practice and considers the supports and constraints within which nurses practice. Topics include ethics of care, leadership, advocacy, evidence based practice, health service management, professional standards, health informatics and multicultural health care.
Developing Advanced Practice in Health Systems II
Teaching period: Semester 1 or Semester 2
This course examines the evaluation of clinical practice through clinical audit. Students progress through a series of readings and activities that introduce clinical audit and then progressively work through the processes involved in the development, conduct and reporting of an audit of clinical practice.
Focused Reading in Clinical Nursing (for students granted advanced standing)
Teaching period: Semester 1 or Semester 2
This course examines contemporary clinical nursing practice through a critical review of the literature with a focus on acute care nursing practice. Students are required to follow a protocol to ensure scientific rigour and minimise potential bias.
Applicants must
This academic plan is offered to registered nurses currently employed full-time or for a minimum of 0.6 in the specialty setting.
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Last updated: Thursday, 27 Aug 2009
