Overview
Overview
The Child and Adolescent Health specialisation is available to study as a graduate certificate and as part of the Master of Advanced Practice. It is suitable for registered nurses interested in designing and implementing early intervention strategies at the individual, family and community level.
In this course, you'll become a specialist in child and adolescent healthcare to enhance the wellbeing of children and their families in the community health context.
Key components include:
- child and adolescent health within the collaborative primary healthcare framework, and best practice sociocultural health support
- physical and psychosocial development of children aged 0 to 18 years within family, education and community environments
- applying the evidence-based community models of healthcare planning and clinical decision-making.
Curtin is an industry-partnered university, and this specialisation is designed to meet the health sector’s need for advanced expertise in Child and Adolescent Health.
Your learning will be consolidated with a clinical placement that includes interprofessional learning and collaboration. Before your clinical placement, you’ll complete a five-day pre-clinical skills workshop at Curtin Perth.¹
The Graduate Certificate in Child and Adolescent Health Specialisation is offered as an online course that is studied on a part-time basis only. We recommend that you study one or two units per semester. This graduate certificate is available in semester 1.
Note: This course is not available to international students studying in Australia on a student visa. See our handbook for more course information.
¹ There are no fees for this workshop. Students travelling to Perth to complete the workshop must arrange (and fund) their travel and accommodation.
How this course will make you industry ready
Curtin is an industry-partnered university. This specialisation is designed to meet the health sector’s need for advanced expertise in Child and Adolescent Health.
The graduate certificate for this specialisation is progressive. You can pause your postgraduate studies after gaining this qualification or continue studying for your master’s degree.
What you'll learn
- identify and apply principles of primary health care into practice to maintain optimal wellbeing of the individual, family and community
- assess the environmental, physical and psychosocial aspects of the individual, family and/or community to determine and plan the health care needs within a community practice setting
- locate, extract and interpret relevant evidence and scientific literature
- communicate both verbally and written, in a way the individuals, family and professional colleagues can understand
- use appropriate technologies to practice community health practice
- demonstrate ability in interdependent and self-directed learning
- incorporate learning opportunities in community practice
- recognise national and global community health issues and strategic health care directions; relate these to community practice
- provide culturally aware and respectful health care provision to multicultural groups and Indigenous communities; demonstrate professional and ethical practice in community health; work collaboratively within an interdisciplinary health care team
