Nursing SVHM: Postgraduate Nurse

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

Chronic Illness and Cardiovascular Disease (Library Nursing topic guide)

Cardiology Library support libguide

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 support resources: Chronic Illness: Cancer Disease and Cancer Nursing, Collection of Oncology and Cancer Nursing Ebooks

Emergency Medicine Library support page:, Featured journal titles, new books.

Intensive Care  Library support page :Featured journal titles and new books.

Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (Medical) – Australian Catholic University. The Graduate Certificate in Clinical Nursing (Medical) is designed to prepare nurses for speciality practice at an advanced practice level.

Mental Health Nursing libguide  Library resource support guide
General Mental Health Library resource support guide

Orthopedics  Library resource support guide
Physiotherapy: Musculoskeletal Library support guide
Recommended journal titles: Orthopedic 

Useful links
Renal Society of Australasia, Renal Society of Australia useful links, see Evidence based Nursing resources
Renal stream, University of Melbourne

Nephrology Library resource support guide

The Graduate Certificate of Perioperative, Perianaesthesia or Intraoperative nursing streams are facilitated by Deakin University. For study in 2023 successful applicants will need to enrol in either the Perioperative, Perianaesthesia or Intraoperative stream with Deakin.
Useful links
Perioperative nursing - Deakin university
Australian College of Perioperative Nurses | ACORN
Anaesthesia Library support guide, journals see British Journal of Anaesthesia

Plastic & Aesthetic Nursing - journal tile. How to become a cosmetic Nurse  (Article)

Surgery  Library support guide 

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 new program is commencing January 2023.

The Pathway to Specialty Practice Program (PSP) Vimeo Video (14 min)

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.

What is nursing in advanced nursing practice? applying theories and models to advanced nursing practice-a discursive review
Zhang Y (2024). Journal of Advanced Nursing

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

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

Teaching Core EBP Skills to Postgraduate Nursing Students, 2020
Leufer, Thérèse, Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing. Vol. 17 Issue 5, pp. 404–405, 2020.

British Journal of Nursing’s series on Advanced Clinical Practice
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. Articles will cover critical thinking and diagnostic reasoning as well as prescribing practice and consultation and clinical assessment. A PDF with links can be downloaded to be used for journal clubs and education groups.

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. 8 title series.