Graduate Diploma of Forensic Nursing

School of Nursing & Midwifery, Fremantle Campus

Forensic medicine is a highly specialised area requiring a detailed understanding of the law as well as patient care. This unique program, which can be completed in two years of part-time study, introduces Registered Nurses to the complex issues facing health professionals working in the area of forensic nursing.

Year One

• NURS5002 Introduction to Forensic Nursing
• NURS5007 Forensic Nursing Populations (Nursing)
• NURS5008 Linking Forensic Nursing Principles to Practice: Care of the Forensic Patient (Nursing)
• NURS5009 Medico-Legal Issues for the Forensic Nurse (Nursing)

Year Two

• NURS4024 Contemporary Mental Health Practice
• NURS4025 Interpersonal Communication
• NURS5006 Professional Role Development
• PHIL6020 Ethics for Professional Life

Master of Nursing (Forensic Nursing)

Students choose a research area relevant to their specialty of nursing practice.

Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Regulations.