Graduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing Practice
Program Overview
This Graduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing Practice provides clinicians with the knowledge and skills to navigate complex healthcare environments and deliver high-quality care. It offers one year of full-time or part-time study, with a combination of core and elective units, clinical experience, and expert teaching. Graduates qualify for advanced clinical roles and become recognized for their specialized knowledge.
Program Outline
Degree Overview:
Our Graduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing Practice will enable you to work across a variety of clinical environments that often demand rapid and challenging decisions in order to deliver high quality care.
Outline:
- Duration: 1 year full-time (Available part-time)
- Location: Camperdown/Darlington University of Sydney
- Study mode: Face to face
- Credit points: 48
- Course content: 48 credit points, including 36 credit points of core units of study and 12 credit points of elective units of study.
- Program Director: Dr Clare Davies
- Unit of study table: Nursing - Advanced Nursing Practice
Teaching:
- Highly respected and experienced teaching staff: You'll learn from highly respected nursing practitioners and researchers. Many of our staff work in frontline healthcare services, making a real difference to the healthcare landscape in Australia and internationally.
- Clinical experience: Our students gain practical, hands-on experience in dedicated clinical simulation facilities on the Westmead Campus and in the Susan Wakil Health Building on the Camperdown Campus.
Careers:
- Recognition: Graduates of our Graduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing Practice will be recognised as having advanced knowledge relevant to clinical nursing.
- Clinical roles: Clinical nurses work in a variety of settings in the acute sector and the community and manage patients with both acute and chronic health concerns. They may also be involved in education, administration, or research.
Other:
- Rankings: 1st in Australia and 13th globally for Nursing (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2023)
- University ranking: We are a top 20 university globally (QS World University Rankings 2024)
- Networking opportunities: Opportunities to network with fellow students and colleagues in their field as well as undertake face-to-face collaborations.
- Critical thinking skills: We produce graduates who have the critical thinking skills and nursing knowledge to provide the best care for people, wherever they are.
The University of Sydney
Overview:
The University of Sydney is a renowned institution of higher learning located in Sydney, Australia. It is known for its strong research focus and diverse academic programs.
Services Offered:
Student Life and Campus Experience:
Key Reasons to Study There:
Academic Programs:
The University of Sydney offers a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses across various fields of study, including:
- Architecture, Design and Planning
- Arts and Social Sciences
- Business
- Economics
- Education and Social Work
- Engineering and Computer Science
- Law
- Medicine and Health
- Music
- Science
Other:
The University of Sydney is actively involved in research, tackling global challenges and developing new solutions. It boasts over 150 research centers and networks, making it a leading research university worldwide. The institution also publishes numerous articles and books annually, showcasing the expertise of its academics.
- A successful applicant for admission to the Graduate Diploma in Advanced Nursing Practice will hold:
- a pre-registration nursing degree from the University of Sydney or equivalent qualification; or
- an embedded graduate certificate in this discipline from the University of Sydney or equivalent qualification; or
- a minimum of five years experience as a registered nurse in Australia or overseas.
- be a registered nurse in Australia or overseas.
- International qualifications: Recognition of prior learning
- Inherent requirements:
- Inherent requirements are the essential tasks and activities necessary to be able to achieve the core learning outcomes of a course.
- Nursing Inherent Requirements PDF - 145.3KB
Language Proficiency Requirements:
- This course requires you to provide evidence of your English proficiency. There are three ways you can do this: