Mental Health Nursing

Please note that this online program isnot valid for Student Visa applications in Australia. However, it are available to international students in Australia on other visa types or to students studying from overseas.

The Mental Health Nursing , Postgrad.Dip. from Australian Catholic University (ACU) offers a specified unit in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy, an intervention of choice in contemporary mental health service delivery and is an effective treatment option.

Current mental health postgraduate programs in Australia focus on either acute mental health care settings or generic mental health. ACU’s Master of Mental Health Nursing has been developed specifically for nursing clinicians entering into the specialist area of mental health. The course is targeted to new nursing graduates and to those working in mental health but who have no formal postgraduate mental health qualifications.Top 50 worldwide in Nursing Shanghai Ranking, Global Ranking of Academic Subjects 2024

In the current period of mental health service provision reform, there has been a shift in focus from acute inpatient treatment to recovery-oriented practice, so the workforce requires professional development opportunities to keep pace with such changes.

Career opportunities:

Graduates will be able to apply their theoretical and practical learning in a range of mental health settings.

Examples of potential employment settings include:

• public and private health care organisations
• child and adolescent, adult and older person mental health services
• acute, community, rehabilitation and long term care focused settings
• local, state and commonwealth government policy
• consumer and carer groups
• mental health based research

Examples of potential employment roles include:

• clinician
• case manager/worker
• team leader
• service manager
• triage manager
• psychiatric consultation and liaison nurse
• nurse practitioner

Courses include:

• Recovery Oriented Mental Health Nursing

• Holistic Individual Centred Mental Health Nursing Practice

• Cognitive Behaviour Therapy

• Health Promotion and Social Inclusion in Mental Health Nursing

• Leadership in Health Care