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
Palliative Care stream
Graduate Certificate in Palliative Care Nursing - University of Melbourne (UoM) - online. Please contact SVHM.Education.reception@svha.org.au
Education and training in palliative care in Victoria (vic.gov)
The Victorian Palliative Care Nurse Practitioner Collaborative (VPCNPC) provides individual Nurse Practitioners and Nurse Practitioner candidates with educational resources, a mentorship program and networking opportunities) The Centre for Palliative Care CPC is the coordinating centre for the development and delivery of the Post Graduate education in Palliative Care at the University of Melbourne CPC Education and Training
Cancer stream
Graduate Certificate in Cancer Nursing - University of Melbourne (UoM) - online
"You will increase your understanding in the pathophysiology of cancer and carcinogenesis, and the principles of cure, control, symptom management and palliation. The impact of diagnosis, treatment, prognosis and survivorship on the person confronted with a life threatening illness and their family will be explored".
Library resources: Chronic Illness: Cancer Disease and Cancer Nursing
Collection of Oncology and Cancer Nursing Ebooks
Cardiac Care
Library resources: Chronic Illness and Cardiovascular Disease (nursing libguide)
Education & Learning
Developing a postgraduate professional education framework for emergency nursing: a co-design approach, 2021
BMC nursing, 20(1), 43. 2021.
Effective learning activity to facilitate post-graduate nursing students' utilization of nursing theories – Using the fundamentals of care framework, 2022. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 00, 1– 12.
Theme-based storytelling in teaching pharmacology to postgraduate nursing students, 2020
Cogent education7, no. 1, (2020)
Book series: Advanced Practice in Nursing (APN)
This series of concise monographs, endorsed by the International Council of Nurses, explores various aspects of advanced practice nursing at the international level. 8 title series, see above below,