Select from a wide range of nursing and health care specialisations. Through these specialisations, you will:
- develop advanced theoretical knowledge and specialist skills that are essential as a registered nurse;
- obtain contemporary knowledge and skills relevant to your specialisation required to effectively care for clients;
- reflect on and explore the complexity of the issues associated with your specialisation; and
- analyse issues and theoretical perspectives under-pinning health conditions and health care themes.
Postgraduate nursing programs at Flinders are flexible. For some programs you can exit with a graduate certificate or choose to move onto the graduate diploma or masters.
Our Graduate Certificate in Acute Care Nursing is available in the following nursing specialisations:
Our Graduate Certificate in Global Health Care is available in the following specialisations:
Our Graduate Certificate in Primary Health Care is available in the following specialisations:
Our Graduate Diploma in Nursing is available in the following specialisations:
- Aged care nursing
- Cardiac care nursing
- Child and family health nursing
- Critical care nursing
- Diabetes management and education
- Emergency nursing
- General practice and community nursing
- Global health care (International health care)
- Global health care (Leading quality and safety)
- Global health care (Learning and teaching)
- High dependency nursing
- Mental health nursing
- Paediatric nursing
The following options are also available for international students:
These unique programs are designed for international students to enable study with domestic students across a broader range of specialisations. This unique combination ensures a comprehensive Australian experience.
Our Masters of Nursing by coursework is available in the following specialisations:
- Aged care nursing
- Cardiac care nursing
- Child and family health nursing
- Critical care nursing
- Diabetes management and education
- Emergency nursing
- General practice and community nursing
- Global health care (International health care)
- Global health care (Leading quality and safety)
- Global health care (Learning and teaching)
- High dependency nursing
- Mental health nursing
- Paediatric nursing
Masters via one of the specialisation pathways does not lead to a PhD.
You can also choose from the following study areas, which are only offered at masters level:
- Coursework and research
- May lead to a PhD
- Nurse practitioner
The following options are also available for international students:
These unique programs are designed for international students to enable study with domestic students across a broader range of specialisations. This unique combination ensures a comprehensive Australian experience.
Study disaster health care at Flinders University, the first program in South Australia to provide health care professionals an operational focus to disaster response at a tertiary level.
- Graduate Certificate in Disaster Health Care
- Graduate Diploma in Disaster Health Care
- Master of Disaster Health Care (Coursework)
- Master of Disaster Health Care (Coursework and Research)
Entry requirements
Most courses require you to be a registered nurse and some courses have specific entry requirements around post-registration work experience and academic qualifications.
However, Flinders University may under certain circumstances and subject to specific conditions admit others who can show evidence of fitness for candidature.
Refer to the course page (linked above) for each specialisation for entry requirements.
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