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About the course
The Graduate Diploma in Clinical Nursing (Online) builds advanced clinical nursing capability for registered nurses. Choose a Project Stream focused on leadership and health service transformation, or a Research Stream to develop foundational research knowledge for future scholarly pathways. You can study the generic award or select a specialisation such as cardiac, intensive care, perioperative, neuroscience, renal, medical, surgical, gerontological or correctional health to strengthen evidence-based, person- and family-centred practice.
Career outcome
Graduates may pursue advanced practice and leadership roles across government and private healthcare settings, aligned to their specialisation. Potential outcomes include clinical nurse specialist positions, nursing education roles, and clinical leadership or management within specialty units and broader health services. Specialised pathways can lead to work in areas such as correctional health, aged care, renal and dialysis services, medical/surgical wards, neuroscience, cardiac rehabilitation, intensive care and perioperative theatre environments.
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