Postgraduate Diploma in the Art and Science of Health Care

Postgraduate Diploma in the Art and Science of Health Care

Postgraduate Diploma in the Art and Science of Health Care

This Postgraduate Diploma in the Art and Science of Health Care are post-registration programmes for New Zealand registered health professionals wanting to advance their clinical practice. A range of papers are offered, with a focus on advancing care, pathophysiology, pharmacology,  pain, and community practice. The postgraduate diploma/certificate is able to be credited into Master programmes throughout New Zealand. 

Important:

For students considering Masters study there are options available to you - please contact the nursing post graduate programme manager Karyn Madden who will be able to assist and guide you through this process.

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Key Details
Invercargill
Qualification:
Postgraduate Diploma
Level:
8
Credits:
120
Duration:

Two years full-time

Up to four years part-time

Blended Delivery

Study Modes:
On Campus
Dates:

2024 Intake 2: 11 July to 21 November - Applications Close 13 June 2024

2025 Intake 1: 10 February to 27 June - Applications Close 29 January 2025

2025 Intake 2: 07 July to 21 November - Applications Close 25 June 2025
Fees:

This programme is eligible for the Zero Fees Scheme.

  • NO tuition fees
  • 2024 Direct material costs is $1,225.60 (GST inclusive)
  • 2025 Direct material costs is $1,313.00 (GST inclusive)

International Fees can be found here.

 

NZ$4,500.00 (International Students)

The Postgraduate Diploma in the Art and Science of Health Care is aimed towards registered nurses and New Zealand registered health professionals who wish to develop advancing practice skills. A range of papers are offered with a focus on high acuity care, community practice and the interfaces between hospital and home.

You, as a health professional, will be able to develop skills of research, critical analysis, constructive synthesis and advanced practice in your discipline.

Graduates will be able to develop innovative, effective, efficient and high-quality approaches to health care delivery, within the defined scope of practice. Each paper offered in the Postgraduate Diploma in the Art and Science of Health Care is equivalent to 30 credits at NZQA Level 8.

This programme delivered through Blended Delivery.

Applicants should have either a degree in a nursing or health related subject or proven evidence of Level 7 study.

PG Orientation Semester 1

12th Feb (online)

PG Orientation Semester 2

17th July (Online)

 

Semester 1

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 6th December 2024

HS801 Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning and Health Assessment for Health Professionals. (Combination of online/onsite)

This paper enables registered nurses/registered health professionals to develop, conduct and critically reflect on advanced health assessment and diagnostic reasoning in the individual’s clinical setting.

19th February (on-site)

5th March (on-site)

19th March (on-site)

3rd April (on-line)

16th April (on-site)

30th April (on-site)

4th June (on-site assessments) 

5th June (on-site assessments)

This course will be capped due to the practical element of this course

 

HS802 Pathophysiology for Health Professionals. (Online) 

This paper explores the pathophysiological basis of complex disease processes in long-term and common conditions. This paper assumes existing knowledge of normal anatomy and physiology and engenders critical understanding of altered, complex health states.

All on-line

Thursday 20th Feb

Thursday 13th March

Thursday 3rd April

Thursday 15th May

Presentations held on Thursday 5th June and Friday 6th June.

 

HS820 Health Services Management

This paper provides an opportunity for New Zealand registered health professionals to acquire knowledge and skills applied by managers and leaders in health services to ensure the achievement of improved patient outcomes.

Study days (all online) – tutorials offered periodically through the semester with regular modules released for students to work through

 

HS 816  Advanced Practice to Support Long Term Conditions

This paper advances the New Zealand registered health professionals knowledge, utilising evidence based practice, to provide expert levels of management of care, to health consumers with common long term conditions across the setting

Study days (all online) – tutorials offered periodically through the semester with regular modules released for students to work through

 

Semester 2

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 20th June 2024

HS809 Applied Pharmacology for Health Professionals. (Online)

This paper promotes the advancement of ethically robust and socio-culturally aligned pharmacological knowledge to health professionals engaged with health consumers in a variety of clinical environments.

Study days (all online):

Dates TBC

 

HS818 Pain, Pain Assessment and Pain Management for Health Professionals. (Online)

This paper enables New Zealand registered health professionals to develop an enhanced knowledge of acute, subacute and chronic pain, including pain assessment and the different therapeutic pain management interventions within the New Zealand context.

Study days (all online)

 

HS823 Health in Aotearoa New Zealand. (Online)

This course aims to allow students to explore the implications of Te Tiriti o Waitangi for healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as cultural and socioeconomic influences.

Study days (all online) – tutorials offered periodically through the semester with regular modules released for students to work through

21 July start (online compulsory)

Report and presentation 1 September (Online compulsory day)

 

HS 815 Advancing Clinical Emergency Care (onsite)

This paper refines advancing practice, by enhancing NZ Registered health professionals skills and expertise in assessment, diagnostic processes, interventions, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics and pharmacotherapeutics using evidence-based practice in emergency clinical settings

Block 1: 23rd and 24th July

Block 2: 20th and 21st of August

Block 3: 24th and 25th of September

Block 4: 22nd and 23rd of October

This course will be capped due to the practical element of this course

 

 

Graduates of this programme will articulate their scope of practice and its advancement, show expert practice working collaboratively across settings and within interdisciplinary environments, show effective leadership and consultancy, develop and influence health and socioeconomic policies and practice at a local and national level, and show scholarly research inquiry into professional practice.

Qualifications gained in the Postgraduate Diploma in the Art and Science of Health Care would be expected to focus on Advancing Clinical Practice with the graduate practising more effectively as an Advancing Practitioner, who will influence/improve the health outcomes for the population base they are involved in the care of.

Application by Academic Qualification

An undergraduate degree in a health profession discipline and with New Zealand registration in their health care discipline. It is expected that applicants will be in current clinical practice. 0.4 full time equivalent positions is the expected minimum. However, applicants who are unable to meet this will be assessed by the postgraduate programme manager to ensure they have appropriate clinical placements. Where an applicant does not hold an undergraduate degree in a health professional discipline, evidence of extensive professional practice and scholarly achievement to the equivalent of a Bachelor’s degree is to be presented in a curriculum vitae accompanied by a statement about advanced practice and postgraduate goals for the future.

Additional Criteria

A minimum of one-year full time post registration experience and so thus one year in practice at the discretion of the programme manager is required.

All applicants must be New Zealand Registered Health Professionals.

To be awarded the Postgraduate Diploma in the Art and Science of Health Care at SIT, the student will have been credited with four papers of choice as specified in the structure of the Postgraduate Diploma in the Art and Science of Health Care. The total credit value of the Postgraduate Diploma in the Art and Science of Health Care is 120 credits.

Please note that students failing to attend for 80% of the timetabled programme hours, may forfeit Zero Fee entitlement.

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