Graduate Diploma in Nursing

Admission requirements

Applicants must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification and must be registered nurses in Australia.

Applicants who are registered as nurses in a country other than Australia must normally hold an approved degree or equivalent qualification and may be admitted to certain specialisations as indicated.

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

The course will not lead to registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

Additional information about admission requirements for each specialisation can be found by clicking on the links provided below.

Course aims

This course aims to prepare students for practice in one of a range of specialist nursing areas. Students will have the opportunity to gain enhanced, specialised knowledge, skills and experience in a range of health care environments, as well as extending their knowledge in research for practice improvement.

Learning outcomes

Graduates of this course are expected to be able to:

Critically apply evidence based nursing practice in their specialty area of nursing
demonstrate the application of theory to nursing practice
evaluate nursing care using reflexive and critical thinking processes
articulate the place of primary health care and population health in their specialty area
demonstrate leadership skills in the area of nursing practice, education and research
demonstrate specialised skills and knowledge in the relevant area of nursing practice.

Additional learning outcomes will be specific to each area of specialisation. Please see specialisations listed below.

Specialisations

The course requires students to complete 18 units of core topics and 18 units of topics from one of the specialisations listed below:

You are required to submit additional documentation regarding your Professional Experience Placement (PEP) as specified in the specialisations below.

Acute Care Nursing specialisations:

Cardiac #
Critical Care
Emergency
High Dependency - exit award only
Mental Health
Paediatrics - Not offered in 2021
Acute Care (exit award only)

# No further student intake

Primary Health Care specialisations:

Aged Care - exit award only
Child and Family Health - Prior to 30 June 2020
Child and Family Health - From 1 July 2020
Diabetes Management and Education
General Practice and Community - Not offered in 2021
Primary Health Care * (for international students only)

Global Health Care specialisation: - no further student intake

with the following pathways:

Leading Quality and Safety
International Health Care
Learning and Teaching

Not all specialisations will be available in any given year or semester.

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.