A Graduate Diploma Critical Care Nursing (Children) will build on your existing knowledge and skills in caring for infants, children and young people within the paediatric intensive care setting. Possessing this advanced knowledge will enable you to utilise a range of therapeutic interventions, and enhance your ability to review differing approaches and trends in the care and treatment of infants, children, young people and their families in the paediatric critical care setting.

 

The Graduate Diploma Critical Care Nursing (Children) programme aims to build upon and advance the registered practitioner’s  repertoire of knowledge, skills, attitudes and professional values, in order to prepare to assume the role of a specialist in this area of care. The programme aims to develop the practitioner’s capacities for caring and competent practice in paediatric intensive care , in order to provide a patient-centred service within health care.

 

On successful completion of the programme, you will receive a Graduate Diploma in Critical Care Nursing (Children) from the UCD School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Systems. The programme is recognised nationally and internationally.