• Apply theory to practice in your hospital, supported by nursing experts.
• Gain advanced skills to assess, prioritise, and manage critically ill or injured patients.
• Graduates may be eligible for further study

 

Critical care nursing in an emergency environment requires specialised skills, knowledge and expertise to effectively assess, prioritise and manage patients presenting with undifferentiated illness or injury.

 

Delivered through a highly flexible, mixed delivery mode and work-integrated learning model, with an emphasis on learning through supervised clinical practice, the Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing (Emergency) will arm you with the skills and evidence-based knowledge needed to provide specialist care in high-pressure constantly changing emergency department environment.

 

You will gain essential knowledge and enhance your problem-solving and clinical skills to assess, plan, implement and evaluate the provision of care for patients with complex care requirements using evidence-based and scientific approaches. You will become a confident communicator with the ability to ensure safe practice and support within an inter-professional team.

 

Who is the Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing (Emergency) for?

This course is for currently practicing registered nurses working in an emergency department setting who are interested in specialising in emergency nursing.