Postgraduate
Nursing, Paramedicine & Midwifery
When you study nursing with us, you will be studying at the university which is a forerunner in health care simulation and scenario based learning across health disciplines. Our well qualified staff and world class facilities position us as the premium provider of nursing qualifications in WA.
We are passionate in finding better ways to educate nurses, midwives, medical practitioners and health professionals.
Research activities and teaching in our Nursing, Paramedicine & Midwifery disciplines are built upon a collaboration of world-class researchers, industry leaders and clinical experts.
Our research strengths in these disciplines include cancer and palliative care, aged care, mental health, acute and clinical care, midwifery, child health and primary health care.
Research centres
Our Nursing, Paramedicine & Midwifery disciplines are heavily involved with several leading research centres, either in leadership or partner roles. Centres include the Systems and Intervention Research Centre for Health, the Western Australian Centre for Cancer and Palliative Care, the Centre for Health and Ageing, the National Nursing and Midwifery and Research Institute and the WA Centre of Excellence for Alzheimer's Disease Research and Care.
In addition, we provide lead university status to a number of industry based centres of excellence with international profiles, such as The Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital Centre for Nursing Research.
Leading the market in education excellence
Our new Centre of Excellence in Healthcare Simulation and demonstration areas housed in the new Health and Wellness building on the Joondalup Campus provides a safe authentic environment for clinical skills development.
The simulation suites can be configured to different settings such as operating theatres, consulting rooms, wards, birthing suites and intensive care. Each suite has cutting edge recording and interactive audio-visual facilities and its own set up/debriefing rooms and observation areas.
The Centre will lead many new initiatives in healthcare simulation and scenario based learning for nursing, midwifery, medical, allied health and health management professionals.
A partnership has been forged with Laerdal Pty Ltd, international leaders in human patient simulators and other products for health care training and therapy, and will further the development of this Centre and the associated exciting research agenda into simulation teaching and learning practice development.
A partnership with the WA Academy of Performing Arts provides actors to perform the roles for scenarios so students can feel the realistic and practical nature of the situation.
Centre for Excellence in Healthcare Simulation recognised for innovation
Our Centre for Excellence in Healthcare Simulation was awarded the Innovation in Nursing Award for Western Australia at the recent Australian Nursing Awards. The Australian Nursing Awards were introduced last year to honour and recognise nurses, graduate nurses and nursing innovations that make a difference.
The Innovation in Nursing Award recognises our commitment to producing competent graduates through healthcare simulation and scenario-based learning innovations using actors.
Head of School, Professor Cobie Rudd, and team leader, Associate Professor Christopher Churchouse, are now hoping to expand the library of scenarios to include specialist areas such as Alzheimer's care, youth suicide, domestic violence and drug and alcohol issues.