Hi, welcome to Flinders University.
My name is Eimear Muir-Cochrane.
I'm a Professor of Nursing in mental health.
I came into this discipline because of my interest
in being passionate about wanting to work with people
when they were distressed
and wanting to understand their human experience.
It's a fantastic, rewarding career.
So, why study Postgraduate Nursing?
Well, it's an exciting proposition.
It's about lifelong learning.
It's about taking you where you want to go in your career.
It's about specialising in particular,
and really quite detailed and expert areas
that will give you a rewarding career.
It really is about making a point of difference for you
as you go forward,
and it gives you a passport to the world
in terms of learning.
Another key aspect of postgraduate study
is it prepares you to be a future leader.
It gives knowledge, skills, and attitudes
that are going to take you forward
to work in a diverse range of areas and specialties.
It will give you the confidence
to lead and manage in your career.
Your career in nursing through specialising
in postgraduate study,
can take you to specialties such as
Emergency, Intensive Care, Child and Youth Health,
Mental Health, my specialty, the best one of course,
and a whole range of primary health care options
including preparing to become a diabetes educator.
You would be working in these specialisms
and a whole range of quite exciting and innovative
community, inpatient, clinics,
working with GPs
and practicing in an autonomous way,
it really is very exciting.
These qualifications will prepare you
specifically for the specialty of your choice
as you go forward.
There are a whole range of exciting settings to work in.
You could end up working in drug and alcohol,
in cardiovascular health, in intensive care.
You could be working in community centers,
you could be working with people with lived experience
of physical and mental health issues,
non government organizations,
throughout Flying Doctor Service, MedStar,
it really is very exciting.
All our postgraduate nursing courses at Flinders
use research that has been undertaken by Flinders staff
and from around the world
to provide evidence-based learning activities.
Also, it's possible to move on from postgraduate study
in coursework through research courses
into higher degrees research programs
such as Masters by Research and PhD.
So, why study Postgraduate Nursing at Flinders?
Well, you'll be taught by experts in the field
in clinical practice,
and with research backgrounds like myself
in Mental Health Nursing,
like Professor Robyn Clark
in Cardiovascular Nursing,
you'll be exposed to a whole range of different experiences.
We also have programs that lead for you to be able
to register as a nurse practitioner
and work autonomously in private practice,
or alongside other discipline groups,
as well as a primary health care pathway,
which prepares you to be able to be recognized
for competencies in diabetes education and management,
and to be employed as a diabetes educator.
In our suite of programs,
a number of the courses including mental health
have clinical pathways.
We have excellent connections with industry,
which means that students on placement
will experience a huge amount of support
in state of the art facilities with clinical experts
and our facilities through university supporting you.
All our learning in Postgrad Nursing at Flinders
is designed in an online environment
so that you can log in anytime and learn.
We have flexible options in terms of study;
part time, full time,
and the specializations also have a range of electives
where you get to choose topics of interest to you.
At Flinders, in our postgrad suites of courses,
we pride ourselves on the networks
that students established with each other
and the relationships
that we as academics established with our students.
I've been teaching for quite a while now
in mental health, nursing, undergrad and postgrad.
But I am constantly surprised
and chuffed that ex-students
are now contacting me about where they're working,
what they've achieved, the awards they've won,
and as they go forward in the career, their ongoing study.
The Caring Futures Institute is unique
because it is the first Institute in Australia
that focus directly on care
for people who are having health or emotional problems
and works directly about translating that research
into care, into practice, and into new knowledge.
This means that when you finish a grad cert, or grad dip,
a Masters, you have the latest evidence
with which to go and practice.
It's really exciting undertaking postgraduate study.
It's fun, it's about lifelong learning.
It will set you up for your career,
and it will give you a point of difference
to be a student at Flinders.
Thank you for visiting Flinders University.
I look forward to welcoming you on campus soon.
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