Graduate Certificate in Advanced Nursing Specialisations: Neonatal Nursing
Recognize, evaluate, and use current evidence-based nursing strategies while caring for newborn clients.
Course details
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.
Selected University Details
The Institute of Health & Management, Australia (IHM) offers accredited postgraduate courses in health, management, research and nursing for both domestic and international students through campuses in Rosanna, Sydney, Perth, and Melbourne and also online. Founded in 2012 as the Institute of Health and Management Pty Ltd, the Institute is accredited by the Australian government’s Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). IHM is also registered on the Commonwealth Register of Institutions and Courses for Overseas Students (CRICOS). IHM’s advanced learning courses are meticulously developed on par with global standards and delivered by experienced faculty with a focus on excellence, both online and through campus-based programs. The blended delivery modes allow students to successfully balance their work and study schedules. IHM leverages new technologies and learning platforms to empower learners with specialist courses that will help them to develop and enhance their skills. IHM belongs to the Health Careers Group, a group of organizations headquartered in Australia and committed to building international careers and to creating solutions for quality education and employment. IHM brings you the EPIQRN program in collaboration with various leading institutes in Australia.
Institute of Health & Management
Australia
Duration : 26 weeks
Delivery mode : Online
Entry Criteria
- Have completed a Bachelor of Nursing degree or an equivalent qualification
- or 3 years Diploma of Nursing leading to Registered Nurses in home country having a three years of work experience.
- Be an AHPRA registered nurse; or
- Be a registered nurse with the Nurses’ Board/Council from the country of origin or place of residence
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)
To be eligible for admission to the Graduate Certificate in Advanced Nursing an applicant is required to:
- Have completed a Bachelor of Nursing degree or an equivalent qualification
- or 3 years Diploma of Nursing leading to Registered Nurses in home country having a three years of work experience.
- Be an AHPRA registered nurse; or
- Be a registered nurse with the Nurses’ Board/Council from the country of origin or place of residence
English Language Proficiency Entry Requirements has to be met by the student Know more