Coursework programs

Key coursework contacts
Admission requirements
– Fees
Advanced standing
Course structure
Articulation and progression

Key coursework contacts

Student Advisers

Provide information and advice to students on administrative and related matters:

Julie Funnell
KG05.3.97; telephone (02) 9514 5021

Jo Forbes
KG05.3.97; telephone (02) 9514 5202

Student Officer (Postgraduate)

Provides advice to students experiencing more complex difficulties with their program. The Faculty Student Office refers students, if necessary, to:

Mary Kwong
KG05.3.05; telephone (02) 9514 5722

Team Leader, Student and Course Support

Manages the Student and Course Support team. Major concerns or problems regarding administrative and academic services should be referred to:

Veronica Nolan
KG05.3.06; telephone (02) 9514 5024

Directors of Studies, Course Coordinators and Advisers

Provides academic advice to students on their program, or other assistance such as helping students experiencing difficulties to cope with their academic work.

Directors of Studies

Clinical

Callista Garman
KG05.2.04; telephone (02) 9514 5120

Health

Linette Lock
KG05.2.06; telephone (02) 9514 5153

Professional

Jacqueline Baker
KG05.2.03; telephone (02) 9514 5072

Course Coordinators and Advisers

Anaesthetics and Recovery Room/Perioperative (Northern Sydney Health)

Lois Hamlin
KG05.2.05; telephone (02) 9514 5717 or (02) 9926 6476

Anaesthetics and Recovery Room/Perioperative (MayneHealth and Ramsay Health)

Callista Garman
KG05.2.04; telephone (02) 9514 5120

Clinical Nursing

Callista Garman
KG05.2.04; telephone (02) 9514 5120

Critical Care

Tom Buckley (Northern Sydney Health)
Royal North Shore Hospital; telephone (02) 9926 8305

Dianne Pelletier (Central Sydney Health
KG05.2.08; telephone (02) 9514 5760

Diabetes Education and Management

Sue Dean
KG05.2.18; telephone (02) 9514 5124

Aileen Wyllie
KG05.4.05; telephone (02) 9514 5204

Health Services Management

Christine Duffield
KG05.2.15; telephone (02) 9514 5729

Mental Health/Transcultural Mental Health

Kevin Kellehear
KG05.2.07; telephone (02) 9514 5050

Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Denise McGarry
KG05.2.05; telephone (02) 9514 5732

Midwifery (Graduate Diploma)

Vacant
KG05.2.10; telephone (02) 9514 5713

Midwifery (Master)

Linette Lock
KG05.2.06; telephone (02) 9514 5153

Neonatal/Paediatric

Janet Green
KG05.4.94; telephone (02) 9514 5740

Nursing Management/Spinal/Neuroscience/Professional Studies

Jacqueline Baker
KG05.2.03; telephone (02) 9514 5072

Associate Dean, Teaching and Learning

Responsible for the oversight and quality of academic activities and all coursework programs:

Diane Brown
KG05.3.88; telephone (02) 9514 5126

Admission requirements

Where large numbers of applicants are eligible for admission to any of the Faculty's courses and places are limited, preference is given on the basis of:

1. general educational qualifications
2. previous academic grades, and
3. professional experience and activities, e.g. post-registration certificates and scholarly activities such as research and publications.

Graduate Certificates/Graduate Diplomas/Master's (by coursework)

• Applicants should have an undergraduate degree in Nursing or an equivalent tertiary qualification.
• Registered nurses who do not have an undergraduate diploma or degree but who have recent relevant work experience are also considered eligible (applicants must present evidence of a capacity to undertake tertiary study, e.g. completion of hospital or college certificates, professional or staff development).
• Applicants are expected to have had at least one year's full-time professional employment in nursing.
• Applicants are normally expected to have concurrent employment in their area of specialty.
• Applicants for the Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Master of Health Services Management or Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in Transcultural Mental Health require an undergraduate degree usually with a minimum of one year's experience or extensive relevant work experience and evidence of a general capacity to undertake tertiary study. Applicants for these courses need not be registered nurses.

Additional/special requirements

Graduate Certificate in Anaesthetics and Recovery Room Nursing/Graduate Certificate in Perioperative Nursing

• Applicants must be employed by Northern Sydney Health, MayneHealth or Ramsay Health.

Graduate Certificate in Critical Care Nursing

• Applicants must be employed by Northern Sydney Health (NSH) or Central Sydney Area Health Service (CSAHS).

Graduate Certificate in Diabetes Education and Management

• Applicants may have an undergraduate degree in a relevant field, such as education, nursing, medicine or an equivalent tertiary qualification.
• The one-year's professional employment in nursing does not apply, however it is assumed that applicants have a basic knowledge of the practice of diabetes education and management.
• Applicants require access to a relevant clinical setting.

Graduate Diploma in Gastroenterological Nursing

• Applicants are normally working in areas of gastroenterological nursing and/or are members of the Gastroenterological Nurses College of Australia (GENCA).

Graduate Diploma in Midwifery

• Applicants must be concurrently employed as student midwives in a 12month midwifery placement.

Graduate Diploma in Nursing/Graduate Diploma in Nursing Management

• Applicants are not expected to have concurrent employment in their area of specialty.

Master's conversions

• Applicants should already hold a Graduate Diploma.

Master of Nursing in Clinical Practice

• Applicants are normally expected to have concurrent employment in their area of specialty.

Master of Midwifery (Conversion)

• Applicants should already hold a Certificate of Midwifery or Graduate Diploma in Midwifery.

Fees

Students who have not paid all due fees and charges by the published final date for payment will have their registration in the course terminated. Terminated students will not receive any examination results for the semester and must apply for readmission in a later semester. Readmission is not automatic.

International fees

Postgraduate coursework programs undertaken by international students attract an annual fee in 2004 of A$15,000. Contact the International Office for further information.

Student service fees/charges

Click here for information regarding compulsory student service fees.

Footnote:
1. For students commencing in 2004.

Notes: A standard part-time student would normally undertake two subjects (12 credit points) each semester.

HECS (Higher Education Contribution Scheme) can be paid upfront with a 25 per cent discount or deferred (exceptions apply – see 2004 HECS Guide). HECS is not tax deductible. Postgraduate course fees must be paid upfront without discount and may be tax deductible (advice should be sought from the Australian Taxation Office or your accountant). Students may apply for PELS (Postgraduate Education Loan Scheme) for courses with postgraduate course fees (see 2004 PELS Guide).

HECS and postgraduate course fees are payable on a semester basis.

Advanced standing

Exemptions are granted on the basis of the successful completion of equivalent subjects from recent postgraduate studies. Students should lodge an Application for Subject Exemption form and include a formal transcript verifying academic results and a description of the subject for which they are claiming equivalence.

The Faculty may also grant credit by substitution. This involves students being able to substitute a prescribed subject where they can demonstrate they have undertaken an equivalent subject at either postgraduate or, in exceptional circumstances, at undergraduate level.

The maximum number of exemptions under the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health Policy are:

• Graduate Certificates
  Maximum of two exemptions
  (12 credit points).
• Graduate Diplomas
  Maximum of four exemptions
  (24 credit points).
• Master's
  Maximum of eight exemptions
  (48 credit points).
• Master's conversions
  No exemptions available. Students must complete four subjects.

Course structure

All postgraduate subjects are classified as either 400 (graduate level) or 500 (advanced level). The requirements for completion of awards are:

• Graduate Certificate
  four 400-level subjects
• Graduate Diploma
  seven 400-level subjects, and
  one 500-level subject
• Master's¹
  nine 400-level subjects, and
  three 500-level subjects

Footnote:
1. Students who elect to complete their Master's programs by project are considered as having completed the equivalent of two 500-level subjects and need to take another 500-level subject. Those electing a dissertation are considered to have completed all the required number of 500-level subjects. Refer to the Subject Descriptions section where 500-level subjects are identified.

Subject categories

Clinical practice subjects

92868 Advanced Assessment in Nursing Practice (500 level) 6cp
92894 Advanced Clinical Practice (500 level) 6cp
92928 Clinical Practice 1 6cp
92929 Clinical Practice 2 6cp
92873 Midwifery Practice 1 6cp
92893 Midwifery Practice 2 6cp
92869 Specialty Clinical Practice 6cp

Clinical studies subjects

92900 Advanced Nursing: Cardio-respiratory and Renal Disruption 6cp
92901 Advanced Nursing: Immune Response and Haematological Disruptions (500 level) 6cp
92773 Advanced Nursing: Metabolic and Neuroendocrine Disruptions 6cp
92958 Advances in Critical Care Nursing 6cp
92781 An Introduction to Midwifery Practice 6cp
92878 Care of the Child in Illness and Disability 6cp
92902 Care of the Acutely Ill Child 6cp
92919 Complex Critical Care 6cp
92957 Complex Spinal Nursing 6cp
92906 Contexts of Recovery Room Nursing 6cp
92923 Continuity of Midwifery Care 6cp
92910 Counselling and Group Skills 6cp
92905 Dimensions of Anaesthesia Nursing 6cp
92881 Foundations of Perioperative Nursing 6cp
92956 Foundations of Spinal Nursing 6cp
92875 Frameworks for Mental Health Nursing 6cp
92918 Fundamentals of Critical Care Nursing 6cp
92713 Health Breakdown 6cp
92913 Issues in Day Surgery Nursing 6cp
92895 Issues in Neonatal Care 6cp
92964 Mental Health Problems and Disorders of Children and Adolescents 6cp
92785 Midwifery in Complex Situations 6cp
92921 Neuroscience: Degenerative and Oncological 6cp
92920 Neuroscience: Trauma and Cerebrovascular 6cp
92871 Perinatal Development 6cp
92877 Personal and Professional Development in Mental Health Nursing (500 level) 6cp
92963 Psychosocial Dimensions of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Care 6cp
92882 Techniques in Perioperative Nursing 6cp
92922 The Meaning of Birth: Mothers, Babies and Midwives 6cp
92876 Therapeutic Interventions in Mental Health Care 6cp

Health subjects

92936 The Australian Health Care System Within an International Context 6cp
92937 Understanding Health 6cp

Health services management subjects

(These subjects are offered by the Faculty of Business)

21720 Human Resource Management 6cp
21739 Health Funding Policy and Resource Management 6cp
21724 Strategic Human Resource Management 6cp
21822 International Health Management 6cp
21728 Public Sector Management 6cp
21758 Strategic Governance and the Business of Government (500 level) 6cp

Midwifery subjects

92781 An Introduction to Midwifery Practice 6cp
92924 Becoming a Reflective Practitioner (500 level) 6cp
92923 Continuity of Midwifery Care 6cp
92927 Evidence-based Practice (Midwifery) 6cp
92785 Midwifery in Complex Situations 6cp
92873 Midwifery Practice 1 6cp
92893 Midwifery Practice 2 6cp
92938 Midwifery Practice Development (500 level) 6cp
92925 Models of Midwifery Care 6cp
92922 The Meaning of Birth: Mothers, Babies and Midwives 6cp

Professional studies subjects

92924 Becoming a Reflective Practitioner (500 level) 6cp
92848 Clinical Teaching in the Health Care Setting 6cp
92933 Health Care Regulation and Policy (500 level) 6cp
92721 Health Promotion and Health Education (500 level) 6cp
92926 Information Management Application (500 level) 6cp
92879 Issues in Mental Health Care 6cp
92885 Leadership and Change in Health Care (500 level) 6cp
92932 Management for Clinicians 6cp
92786 Negotiating Nursing 6cp
92887 Organisational Management in Health Care 6cp
92847 Planning and Evaluating Health Services (500 level) 6cp
92794 Power and Politics in Health Care 6cp
92917 Using Health Care Data for Decision Making 6cp

Research subjects

92790 Evidence-based Practice¹ 6cp
92927 Evidence-based Practice (Midwifery) 6cp
92935 Public Health and Epidemiology (500 level) 6cp
92xxx Health Care Research Methodology 6cp
92xxx Developing Health Care Theory Investigating 6cp
92xxx Researching Health Care Change 6cp

Transcultural mental health subjects

92939 Advanced Clinical Practice in Transcultural Mental Health (500 level) 6cp
92940 Ethnicity, Culture and Migration 6cp
92941 Issues in Transcultural Mental Health 6cp
92942 Models of Transcultural Mental Health Practice 6cp
92943 Transcultural Mental Health Assessment and Treatment 6cp

Dissertation and project subjects

92812 Project² (two x 500 level) (one semester; 12 credit points) 12cp
92944 Dissertation (Part A)³ 12cp
92945 Dissertation (Part B) ³ 12cp
92946 Project (Part A) 6cp
92947 Project (Part B) 6cp

Other subjects

92726 Clinical Gastroenterological Nursing 6cp
92934 Clinical Management of Diabetes 6cp
92702 Gastroenterological Nursing 1 6cp
92886 Graduate Writing Skills 6cp
77940 Health Care Law (Law subject) 6cp
92914 Introduction to Homoeopathy 6cp
92845 Primary Health Care 6cp
92808 Resource Allocation (Ethics subject) 6cp
92861 Technology and Ethics (Ethics subject) 6cp
92862 Life, Death and Ethics (Ethics subject) 6cp
92805 The Ethics of Professional/Client Relationships (Ethics subject) 6cp

Footnotes:
1. Students who have not previously done any research subjects must undertake 92790 Evidence-based Practice.
2. Project prerequisites:
• usually a Credit average in previous 48 credit points
• approved project topic and supervisor prior to anticipated commencement of the subject.
3. Dissertation prerequisites:
• usually a Distinction average in previous 48 credit points
• dissertation proposal and supervisor approved by Faculty Research Committee prior to anticipated commencement
• have completed a research elective in the methodology intended to be used for your dissertation.

Articulation and progression

The specialty Graduate Certificates articulate with the Graduate Diploma/Master's in Clinical Practice. The Graduate Certificate in Nursing Management articulates with the Graduate Diploma in Nursing Management.

The Graduate Diploma in Nursing and the Graduate Diploma in Nursing Management articulates with the Master of Nursing in Professional Studies which has been designed for those students who wish to pursue management or education interests. Students in the course are able to undertake subjects in other faculties to supplement those on offer within the Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery and Health. Students who undertake a management or education major will have this indicated on their transcript. Alternatively, students can design their own program. Students who have not completed either the Graduate Diploma in Nursing or Graduate Diploma in Nursing Management (or equivalent) can articulate into the Master of Nursing in Professional Studies, however they may be required to undertake additional subjects. The Graduate Diploma in Nursing Management also articulates with the Master of Health Services Management.

The other Graduate Diplomas – Graduate Diploma in Clinical Practice, Graduate Diploma in Mental Health Nursing, Graduate Diploma in Midwifery and Graduate Diploma in Community Health Nursing – articulate with the Master of Nursing in Clinical Practice. The Graduate Diploma in Clinical Practice has a variety of major clinical areas of study which can be identified on the student transcripts. Students can also design their own program. Students who have not completed a Graduate Diploma in Clinical Practice or equivalent can articulate into the Master of Nursing in Clinical Practice, however they may be required to undertake additional subjects.

Rules and regulations

All students should refer to the Rules section of the UTS: Calendar. The Rules of the University are also available online at:

www.uts.edu.au/div/publications/policies/rules/contents.html

Progression rules

A student will have their registration discontinued, in accordance with Rule 3.2.6.2 and 3.3.7.2, if they gain any two failures in a course, or fail to meet any concurrent experience or other requirement prescribed by the course over a two-year period.