Graduate Diploma in Intensive Care Nursing

This course aims to help nurses develop their expertise and skills to deliver comprehensive care and advice to critically ill patients and their families, as well work across complex medical environments that demand rapid, sophisticated and challenging decisions.
This course is designed for registered nurses working in the intensive care environment who are looking to advance to clinical leadership roles or build professional practice capabilities.
Graduates of this course will be recognised as:

having advanced knowledge relevant to intensive care nursing
highly capable of working in nursing administration, consultancy, education, and research.

Admission to this course requires:

a pre-registration nursing degree from the University of Sydney or equivalent qualification; or

an embedded graduate certificate in this discipline from the University of Sydney or equivalent qualification; or

a minimum of five years experience as a registered nurse in Australia or overseas.

be a registered nurse in Australia or overseas.

International applicants are required to have a minimum of one year's experience in intensive care nursing and have a choice of providing a statement of support from their supervisor if they wish to undertake the required clinical assessments in their home country, or else the clinical assessments can be undertaken at the Sydney Nursing School under simulated conditions.

IELTS score: A minimum result of 7.0 overall and a minimum result of 7.0 in each band

TOEFL - IBT score: A minimum result of 96 overall including a minimum result of 23 in Reading, Listening and Speaking and 25 in Writing

Pearsons Test of English: A minimum result of 68 overall and a minimum result of 68 in each band