Nursing SVHM: Postgraduate Nurse

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

Guidelines, general

ADVANCED NURSING PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR THE AUSTRALIAN CONTEXT, 2020
Chief Nursing & Midwifery Officers Australia. Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. "information and guidance for nurses, employers, health planners and health policymakers on the concept of advanced nursing practice in the Australian context."

The Australian Advanced Practice Nursing Self-Appraisal (ADVANCE) tool 2017 provides a standardised
understanding of advanced practice that will support health service planning and cross-discipline team
development and nurses' individual career planning. 

Grants & Education news

STV Foundation: Grants Opportunities
https://www.stvfoundation.org.au/grants-hub

Scholarly Writing - Grants- Funding & Writing (Library publication)
https://library.svhm.org.au/scholarlywriting/grants

Other Grants & Scholarship, Research Funds 

Early and mid-career researcher (EMCR) 
Grant funding (Theo Murphy Australia) 
https://www.science.org.au/supporting-science/awards-and-opportunities/theo-murphy-initiative-australia

General list, Australian grants

Nursing & Medical Grant List - Univ of Melbourne 

Principles for advanced practice, 2025
Ian Peate. Independent Nurse 2025 2025:4, 28-28

Nursing Leadership in the Healthcare Setting: A Scoping Review, 2025
De Las Armas E.; Barlis J.C.; Cruz C.; Peco R.A. International Journal of Caring Sciences. 18 (1) (pp 479-497), 2025.

Advanced nurse and midwife practitioners' experience of interprofessional collaboration when implementing evidence-based practice into routine care: an interpretative phenomenological analysis, 2024
Clarke V, Lehane E, Cotter P, Mulcahy H. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 2024 80(4),1559-1573.

Improving Doctoral Students’ Writing: A Checklist for Quality Literature Reviews, 2025
Chunta, K. & Smith-Rencewicz, N. Nurse Educator, 50 (5), 259-259.

Factors influencing nursing undergraduates’ motivation for postgraduate entrance: a qualitative inquiry, 2024
Wang, Y., Ge, Y., Chu, M. et al. BMC Nursing, vol. 23, 728 (2024). Open Access.

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) 

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.