Graduate Diploma of Emergency Health

This course builds on the Graduate Certificate of Emergency Health and continues to support students to improve their clinical practice and knowledge related to the delivery of emergency health services while preparing them for leadership positions.

Participants explore their role and the role of their employer within the context of an integrated emergency medical system considering the issues and trends that influence scope of practice and service delivery.

The course comprises two core units; integrated emergency medical system and paramedic clinical practicum and a further six elective units chosen from within postgraduate units offered by the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences.

This course will support students in improving their clinical practice and knowledge related to the delivery of emergency health services and help prepare them for clinical leadership positions.

The student will explore clinical practice within an integrated emergency medical system and consider the issues and trends that influence scope of practice and service delivery. Students will be able to select streams of study relevant to the emergency health services context, to meet both their learning needs and interests. Graduates of this course may gain leadership or management roles within the emergency health services.

Minimum entrance requirements
Applicants are required to have completed a bachelors degree in emergency health or equivalent undergraduate studies leading to practice as a health professional. In addition, applicants wishing to undertake the clinical practicum unit will need to demonstrate current relevant health professional registration (or equivalent). Interstate and international applicants without an undergraduate degree but with extensive relevant experience will be considered on a case by case basis.

By the completion of this course, the graduate will be able to:

• critically explore their practice role from the perspective of broader population and health system demands on care delivery within an integrated emergency health system
• critically review their clinical practice against current evidence
• apply knowledge gained through the completion of elective units of study to their practice context
• work collaboratively within an integrated emergency health system at an advanced level.

• apply an appropriate ethical and professional construct as an emergency care provider to their clinical practice
• recognise and assess appropriate symptom-syndrome patterns in patients with sudden illness or injury, and initiate advanced life support measures
• demonstrate the use of advanced clinical problem solving processes and the integration of theory, practical skills and clinical competence
• develop an awareness of the responses of patients and families to acute, life-threatening illness/injury, in a diverse cultural community
• contribute to and utilise outcomes from quality management and clinical audit strategies, information technology and research programs
• critically evaluate the relevance of research findings within the context of community-based emergency health.