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Graduate Certificate in Disaster Health Care

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The Graduate Certificate in Disaster Health Care is an 18-unit program offered by the College of Nursing and Health Sciences.

The Graduate Certificate in Disaster Health Care articulates with the Graduate Diploma in Disaster Health Care and/or the Master of Disaster Health Care programs and credit will normally be given for related topics completed in the graduate certificate.

If the requirements of the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Health Care have been satisfied, it is available as an exit award from the Graduate Diploma in Disaster Health Care or the Master of Disaster Health Care.

The program was developed in collaboration with the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre (NCCTRC) and is offered in external mode through Flinders University.

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Admission requirements

Applicants must hold an approved bachelor-level degree or equivalent qualification (AQF level 7) in a health profession from an approved tertiary institution and have not less than two years’ professional experience in the health care sector following completion of the degree or equivalent qualification.

However, the Dean (Education) may, under certain circumstances and subject to specific conditions, admit others who can show evidence of fitness for candidature. Credit may be granted for comparable prior studies.

Course aims

The Graduate Certificate in Disaster Health Care is designed to provide students who are working in health care, whatever their professional background, with the opportunity to acquire a body of theoretical and practical knowledge and skills in disaster health care and to apply these in a range of disaster response situations.

The course builds on students’ current workplace and/or disaster response experience and enables them to proceed, if they wish, to further graduate-level coursework.

Learning outcomes 

Graduates of the course are expected to be able to:

  • identify and critically analyse the current standards, guidelines and policy frameworks relevant to disaster response and management
  • apply relevant principles of practice to differing practical and theoretical situations during a disaster health response
  • identify and critique the socio-political framework that informs Australia’s disaster response in a global health care setting
  • evaluate their own communication practice and leadership capabilities in practical disaster situations using reflective and critical thinking
  • demonstrate the knowledge, skills and attributes required to respond to a disaster in local and international settings
  • use their knowledge, skills, competencies and problem-solving skills to analyse and critique delivery of specialist care in a disaster health care context
  • use evidence-based research skills to plan, implement and evaluate care provision in disaster response environments.

Program of study

To qualify for the Graduate Certificate in Disaster Health Care, a student must complete 18 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic, according to the following program of study:

Core - Year 1 topics

18 units comprising:

 DISH8001 Introduction to Disaster Health (4.5 units)
 DISH8002 Clinical Decision Making in Disaster Health Care (4.5 units)
 DISH8003 Health Management of Major Incidents (4.5 units)
 DISH8004 International Disaster Practice (4.5 units)

The award of a grade of Fail (F) in the same topic on more than one occasion or in 9 units or more, or failure to complete the course within two consecutive years, may constitute prima facie evidence of unsatisfactory progress for the purposes of the University's Policy on Student Progress.

Except with permission of the Dean (Education):

  • the program must be completed full-time in one semester or part-time within four consecutive semesters
  • a student may not include a topic that repeats work previously undertaken.

Every effort has been made to ensure the information published on the Course Rule pages is accurate at the time of publication. Flinders University reserves the right to amend its curriculum without prior notice, and will update the Course Rules to reflect any amendments at the earliest opportunity.

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