Building on the Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Nursing, the Graduate Diploma offers units in healthcare ethics, leadership, and a unit interpreting health research. An understanding of evidence-based practice and different research approaches is fundamental to research inquiry and is essential to enable postgraduate students to critically evaluate research literature, and to undertake health inquiry, workplace projects or health research. In addition, the Graduate Diploma offers a specified unit in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, an intervention of choice in contemporary mental health service delivery and is an effective treatment option.
Current mental health postgraduate programs in Australia focus on either acute mental health care settings or generic mental health. ACU’s Master of Mental Health Nursing has been developed specifically for nursing clinicians entering into the specialist area of mental health. The course is targeted to new nursing graduates and to those working in mental health but who have no formal postgraduate mental health qualifications.
In the current period of mental health service provision reform, there has been a shift in focus from acute inpatient treatment to recovery-oriented practice, so the workforce requires professional development opportunities to keep pace with such changes.
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Delivery mode
This course is available in the following study modes:
Entry Requirements
There are no formal academic requirements
To be eligible for admission to the Graduate Diploma in Mental Heath Nursing course, an applicant must:
- have completed a Bachelor of Nursing degree (or higher); OR
- have completed the Graduate Certificate in Mental Health Nursing, or equivalent;
AND
- provide written confirmation from their employer that they are employed in a mental health service.
Course fees
Course fee
$6,488
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