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POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN NURSING (MENTAL HEALTH) This programme is offered to registered nurses in their first year of practice or registered general or psychopeadic nurses wanting to change their scope of practice to include mental health nursing.

Clinical practice is completed in a variety of placements in workplace settings

This programme builds on the existing knowledge and experience of the graduate nurse, gained during undergraduate study, while providing an environment that supports the acquisition of knowledge and skills in beginning nursing practice. Students are employees of health providers and attend theory blocks and/or tutorials at the polytechnic or in their workplace environments.

Our aim is to ensure the provision of a qualification that provides the graduate nurse with a supportive and challenging entry to mental health and addiction nursing practice. The programme identifies and incorporates, in partnership with health care providers, the specific skills and competencies that need to be developed in relation to new entry to specialist practice (mental health and addiction) nursing. The nurse, on successful completion, is competent and able to critically incorporate best practice standards and research into mental health and addiction nursing.

PROGRAMME INFORMATIONHCS8316: Contemporary Mental Health and Addiction Nursing (60 credits)This course offers students the opportunity to explore the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of contemporary mental health and addictions practice within New Zealand. The student will explore socio-political and professional issues influencing mental health and addiction and how these issues relate to clinical practice.

HCS8326: Professional Practice in Mental Health and Addiction Nursing (60 credits)This course is designed to provide supported entry into specialty mental health and addiction nursing through the development of confidence and competence within the professional practice setting.

This programme is delivered as follows: > Theory blocks delivered at the Porirua campus > Three half day tutorials are held in a variety of geographical locations > Online/flexible learning

Students of the programme will be required to: > Travel to a Whitireia campus > Travel to tutorial groups, which may at times be outside the employing

organisation > Have access to a computer with broadband internet connection

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

ENROL NOW!POSTGRADUATE CERTIFICATE IN NURSING (MENTAL HEALTH)

QUALIFICATIONGraduates gain the Postgraduate Certificate in Nursing

CAREER OPPORTUNITIESWork completed as part of this programme may contribute evidence for use in Professional Development Recognition Programmes (PDRP). Successful graduates may also gain credits towards Master’s studies.

LOCATIONPorirua campus, Wi Neera Drive, Porirua

DURATION40 weeks

LEVEL 8

FEESCurrent fees are available on the Whitireia website

ENTRY REQUIREMENTSDomestic: Registered nurse with a current New Zealand practising certificate, Bachelor's degree or equivalent; currently employment in a Ministry of Health funded Mental Health and Addictions setting, working no less than 0.7 (three and a half days per week) full-time equivalent for the duration of the programme

Change of Scope: Applicants also need Nursing Council of New Zealand approval

International: IELTS 7.0 in each band

June 2017

PROGRAMME AND BLOCK COURSE DATES WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE PROGRAMME PAGE ON THE WHITIREIA WEBSITE ONCE CONFIRMED