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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

STRP-NEONC v.1 Neonatal Nursing Stream (GCert ClinNurs)


Major/Stream Overview

This major/stream is part of a larger course. Information is specific to the major/stream, please refer to the course for more information.


The Neonatal Nursing Stream has been developed for the registered nurses who are working in the clinical area and wish to expand their professional competence to an advanced level whilst concurrently undertaking an academically sound course which embraces evidence based practice and critical thinking. This stream focuses on all areas of neonatal nursing practice including very low birth weight infants and preterm babies with special care needs.



Major/Minor/Stream Organisation

Students need to stay in original stream as this is linked to the employment sector and scholarship.



Course Structure Hrs/Wk Credit
Year 1 Semester 1
NURS5017 v.1   Advanced Clinical Nursing Science 1 3.0 25.0
NURS5014 v.1   Advanced Clinical Practice 1 3.0 25.0
  50.0
Year 1 Semester 2
NURS5018 v.1   Advanced Clinical Nursing Science 2 3.0 25.0
NURS5015 v.1   Advanced Clinical Practice 2 3.0 25.0
  50.0




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