Course 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.
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Entry requirements
Specifically, applicants must hold a bachelor degree and registration as a general nurse in Division One with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) OR must be registered as a midwife. Students need to be able to undertake a compulsory five day pre-clinical skills workshop at the Bentley campus prior to their clinical placement.
There are no further fees incurred for this workshop but rural students will need to source and fund travel and accommodation expenses. Applicants for this course should refer to the Faculty website for more information on Communicable Diseases and Criminal Record Screening and Clearance.
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Fees
2026 Domestic indicative fees
Commonwealth-supported first-year fee
$2,400*
Domestic fee-paying first-year fee
$14,665*
Important information about fees
- *Fees are indicative only
- First year fees are based on a first-year full-time study load of 100 credit points. Your fees will vary depending on the units you choose.
- This indicative fee does not include other fees like administrative and incidental fees (such as lab coats or art supplies) or the cost of your textbooks. Visit other fees and charges for more information.
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