Graduate Diploma in Intensive Care Nursing
- 1st in Australia for Nursing (QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025)
What you’ll study
Intensive care nurses deliver complex care to critically ill patients, such as those experiencing single or multiple organ dysfunction due to serious illness or injury.
As a Graduate Diploma in Intensive Care Nursing student, you will learn to work across complex environments that often demand rapid, sophisticated and challenging decisions as you help patients and their families understand their illness and deliver high quality care.
During this one and a half year degree, you will be led by leading researchers as you build upon your individual clinical experience. You will learn to provide sophisticated care and advice to critically ill patients and their families.
You will complete:
- 48 credit points of core units of study, which include four specialty-specific units for the intensive care nursing courses.
Unit of study table: Nursing - Intensive Care Nursing
Fees
Admission criteria
How to apply
Before applying
Prepare relevant documentation
Please prepare the relevant documents to submit with your application:
- academic transcripts or clinical qualifications/achievements;
- testamurs of degrees or diplomas;
- current authority to practice as a registered nurse in Australia or overseas;
- passport, birth certificate or citizenship certificate;
- marriage certificate or other appropriate documentation, if your name has changed;
- Curriculum Vitae, including nursing employment experience (position, start and end dates, employer FT, PT or casual)
- Statement of Support Clinical Assessment Requirement form (pdf, 363KB)
- evidence of English proficiency (ie IELTS test results) if appropriate;
- any other relevant documentation that you feel may support your application.
Submit application
Submit an application through our portal.
Closing dates
Semester 1
31 January of the commencing year.
