Cardiac Postgraduate Program

Designed to serve as a springboard for your nursing career, amplifying your skills and elevating cardiac nursing expertise to exceptional levels.

Our Cardiac Postgraduate Program is tailor-made to guide and support your seamless transition from Peninsula Health’s Cardiac learning journey into formal postgraduate studies, ensuring you experience a smooth and successful progression in your ongoing professional development.

General information

The program includes:

• A combination of online self-directed learning modules, face-to-face workshops, skills stations, high-fidelity simulation, and case studies
• Annual leave, study leave, exam leave, professional development (PD) leave
• Postgraduate study days at Peninsula Health
• LEAP days (a great opportunity to work in a variety of clinical areas based on clinical interests/assessment requirements)
• Support from NUM/ANUM,, Clinical Nurse Specialists, Clinical Support Nurse and Clinical Educators in cardiac care.
• Participation in a combined critical care study day to provide additional learning opportunities and to work collaboratively within the critical care environment
• Participation in cardiac-specific in-services to provide additional learning specific to cardiac care
• All formal assessments and hurdles (set by the university) are completed by the cardiac education team
• Use of Microsoft Teams for efficient communication

University partnerships

Monash University and Deakin University both offer a Master of Advanced Clinical Nursing (cardiac) with the option to exit the course at the Graduate Certificate level.

Further information

For further information, contact learninghub@phcn.vic.gov.au