Graduate Certificate
Perioperative nurses are an integral part of the multidisciplinary surgical and anaesthetic team.
The Graduate Certificate in Health (Perioperative Nursing) is a technical skill-building course designed to strengthen critical thinking skills, guide the development of hands-on abilities and reinforce the importance of communication within the wider team in providing safe, quality care for pre, intra and post-operative patients.
Core subjects introduce students to the foundations of perioperative nursing and collaborative care, providing critical skills needed to monitor and identify risks in a range of patient states, and to safely navigate any ethical factors related to patients presenting for surgical intervention.
Students will also be supported to evaluate and apply the Australian College of Perioperative Nurses (ACORN) Standards for Perioperative Nursing and ACORN Competencies, the National Safety & Quality in Health Care Standards and NMBA professional standards.
This six-month full time (or equivalent part-time) course will be delivered online, with all study support and learning resources also be available from academic staff and learning skills advisors.
In addition to the online coursework, an inquiry-based learning framework has been developed - in cooperation with our industry partners - whereby all theories and class content are contextualised through clinical experience.
Therefore, all students enrolled in this course must be currently registered nurses practicing in an associated clinical area (i.e., Hospital Theatre, Day Procedure Unit). This enables our students to critically analyse and apply evidence based clinical reasoning within a real-life perioperative setting.
For registered nurses currently practicing in another area of healthcare will be provided with an opportunity to enter the Intensive Care nursing domain and to undertake this course in parallel.
A wide range of career opportunities are available upon graduation in operating rooms and post-anaesthesia care units.
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