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Graduate Diploma of Forensic Mental Health Nursing

Graduate Diploma of Forensic Mental Health Nursing

Use your current nursing qualifications to upskill into the interesting area of forensics, with a Graduate Diploma of Forensic Mental Health Nursing. You’ll learn the necessary skills for success in this area, which includes an understanding of legal and correctional systems, working effectively with challenging patients and behaviours, and factors…

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Health and Medicine, Medicine
Swinburne University of Technology

COURSE DESCRIPTION

Use your current nursing qualifications to upskill into the interesting area of forensics, with a Graduate Diploma of Forensic Mental Health Nursing. You’ll learn the necessary skills for success in this area, which includes an understanding of legal and correctional systems, working effectively with challenging patients and behaviours, and factors that influence offending.

Upgrade your skills

Apply advanced knowledge to individual mental health factors

Cognitive skills

Technical skills

Communication skills

Deliver effective treatments

Stretch your career further

Forensic mental health nurse

Nurse in a prison setting

Nurse in a court setting

General mental health nurse

REQUIREMENTS

Standard entry
An Australian bachelor degree or equivalent in one of the following fields:

  • Nursing
  • Mental health nursing

English language requirements

Satisfactory completion of one of the following:

  • Swinburne’s English for Academic Purposes (EAP 5 Advanced level) with overall 70%, all skills 65%
  • minimum IELTS overall band of 6.5 (Academic Module) with no individual band below 6.0
  • TOEFL iBT (internet-based) minimum score of 79 with a reading band no less than 18 and writing band no less than 20
  • Pearson (PTE) minimum of 58 (no communicative skills less than 50)
  • C1 Advanced – 176, no band less than 169
  • any other equivalent assessment of English language proficiency

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne University of Technology is a public university based in Melbourne- that is among the top 3% of universities in the world. The University focuses on science, technology and innovation and offers courses well recognised by professional organisations. The Good Universities Guide 2016 awarded the University five stars for both graduate satisfaction and generic skills and four stars for teaching quality. It also features in the top 200 ranked universities in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings; and enjoys close ties with industry- providing students with invaluable workplace experience.

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Swinburne University of Technology

Swinburne University of Technology is a public university based in Melbourne- that is among the top 3% of universities in the world. The University focuses on science, technology and innovation and offers courses well recognised by professional organisations. The Good Universities Guide 2016 awarded the University five stars for both graduate satisfaction and generic skills and four stars for teaching quality. It also features in the top 200 ranked universities in the QS Graduate Employability Rankings; and enjoys close ties with industry- providing students with invaluable workplace experience.

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