Resources and information on our Postgraduate nursing programs offered at SVHM.
SVHM Postgraduate nursing program
Postgraduate streams available (in conjunction with UoM, Deakin University, ACU)
Palliative Care, Cardiac Care, Cancer, Emergency, Intensive Care, Medical, Mental Health, Orthopedics, Renal, Peri-operative, Plastics, Surgical
Pathway to Specialty Practice
Registered Nurses (Registered Nurse with Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) can also undertake a specialty practice program at SVHM, https://www.svhm.org.au/education/nursing-education/pathway-to-specialty-practice
The Pathway to Specialty Practice Program (PSP) Vimeo Video (14 min) 2023
Overview of the program
Education news
2024 Dame Quentin Bryce Postgraduate Palliative Care Nursing Scholarship recipients announced
St. Vincent's Nursing nurses receive the Dame Quentin Bryce scholarship. Thanks to the generous support of donors to St Vincent's Foundation Victoria, the scholarship is awarded annually to one or more St Vincent’s palliative care nurses who are undertaking a postgraduate certificate or diploma.
Principles for advanced practice
Ian Peate.Independent Nurse 2025 2025:4, 28-28
Advanced nurse and midwife practitioners' experience of interprofessional collaboration when implementing evidence-based practice into routine care: an interpretative phenomenological analysis
Clarke V, Lehane E, Cotter P, Mulcahy H. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2024 80(4),1559-1573.
Relationship between work-related psychosocial factors and self-leadership in advanced nurse practitioners: a cross-sectional study.
Duignan M, Drennan J & Mc Carthy VJC (2024). Journal of Advanced Nursing, 80(3), 1120-1131
Factors influencing nursing undergraduates’ motivation for postgraduate entrance: a qualitative inquiry
Wang, Y., Ge, Y., Chu, M. et al. BMC Nursing, vol. 23, 728 (2024).
Improving Cultural Competence and Self-Efficacy Among Postgraduate Nursing Students: Results of an Online Cultural Care Training Program, 2022 Fadaeinia MM, Miri S, Azizzadeh Forouzi M, Roy C, Farokhzadian J.J Transcult Nurs. 2022
Facilitators, barriers, benefits, and funding to implement postgraduate nurse practitioner residency/fellowship programs.
Journal of the American Association of Nurse Practitioners 2021, 33(8), 618-619
British Journal of Nursing’s series on Advanced Clinical Practice, 2022
The series is aimed at nurses who are practising at an advanced care level or who are taking the ACP course. The ACP series will cover a range of clinical disciplines from hepatology to end of life care.
Link to Full text articles (some resources have to be requested by ILL)
Book series: Advanced Practice in Nursing (APN)
(** Recommended) This series of concise monographs, endorsed by the International Council of Nurses, explores various aspects of advanced practice nursing at the international level. English & French titles. Publications from 2016.
Clinical Nurse Specialist Role and Practice by 
Essential notes in pain medicine, 2022 by 
Pain Management for Advanced Practice by 
Nursing Diagnosis Handbook - E-Book by