Postgraduate Certificate in the Art and Science of Health Care

This Postgraduate Certificate in the Art and Science of Health Care is a post-registration programme for New Zealand registered health professionals wanting to develop advancing skills. A range of papers are offered with a focus on high acuity care, community practice and the interfaces between hospital and home.

You, as a health professional, will be able to develop skills of research, critical analysis, constructive synthesis and advanced practice in your discipline.

This programme delivered through Blended Delivery.

Applicants should have either a degree in a nursing or health related subject or proven evidence of Level 7 study.

EACH PAPER IS WORTH 30 CREDITS AT LEVEL 8 AND REQUIRES APPROXIMATELY 300 HOURS OF STUDY (I.E. APPROXIMATELY 15-20 HOURS PER WEEK)

Semester One, 2023

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 12th December 2022

Orientation seminar 16/2/22 or 20/7/22 (on-line)

HS801 Clinical Diagnostic Reasoning and Health Assessment for Health Professionals

This paper enables registered nurses/registered health professionals to develop, conduct and critically reflect on advanced health assessment and diagnostic reasoning in the individual’s clinical setting.

Study days online: 15th & 16th March

Study days on-site: 15th February; 5th April; 3rd May; 1st & 2nd June (on-site assessment)

HS802 Pathophysiology for Health Professionals

This paper explores the pathophysiological basis of complex disease processes in long-term and common conditions. This paper assumes existing knowledge of normal anatomy and physiology and engenders critical understanding of altered, complex health states.

Study days (all online): 9th February; 10th March; 28th April; 19th May; 8th & 9th June

HS810 Health Professional Practice to Support Older Persons’ Health and Wellbeing

This paper enables New Zealand registered health professionals to develop knowledge which will assist in facilitating and providing evidence-based care to support older adults’ health and wellbeing.

Study days (all online): 22nd February; 15th March; 5th & 26th April; 17th May; 14th June

HS820 Health Services Management

This paper provides an opportunity for New Zealand registered health professionals to acquire knowledge and skills applied by managers and leaders in health services to ensure the achievement of improved patient outcomes.

Study days (all online): 20th February; 29th May

Semester Two, 2023

CLOSING DATE FOR APPLICATIONS: 13th June 2023

Orientation seminar 16/2/22 or 20/7/22 (on-line)

HS809 Applied Pharmacology for Health Professionals

This paper promotes the advancement of ethically robust and socio-culturally aligned pharmacological knowledge to health professionals engaged with health consumers in a variety of clinical environments

Study days (all online): 20th July; 10th & 27th August; 21st Sept; 19th October; 2nd, 16th & 23th November.

HS815 Advancing Clinical Emergency Care

This paper refines advancing practice, by enhancing New Zealand registered health professionals’ skills and expertise in assessment, diagnostic processes, interventions, pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, and pharmacotherapeutics using evidence-based practice in emergency clinical settings.

Study days on-site: 26th & 27th July; 16th & 17th August; 20th & 21st September; 18th & 19th October (on-site assessment)

HS816 Advanced practice to support long term conditions

This paper advances the New Zealand registered health professionals’ knowledge, utilising evidence-based practice, to provide expert levels of management of care, to health consumers with common long-term conditions across settings.

Study days (all online): 25th July; 1st, 22nd & 29th August; 19th & 26th September; 10th & 17th October.

HS818 Pain, Pain Assessment and Pain Management for Health Professionals

This paper enables New Zealand registered health professionals to develop an enhanced knowledge of acute, subacute and chronic pain, including pain assessment and the different therapeutic pain management interventions within the New Zealand context.

Study days (all online): 26th & 27th July; 27th & 28th September; 1st & 2nd November.

HS821 Research Paradigms for Nursing Science

This paper provides New Zealand registered health professionals with the knowledge and skills required for scholarly research at a postgraduate level, covering a range of paradigms, approaches, and techniques, with particular emphasis on the New Zealand cultural and sociopolitical context.

Study days: dates are individualised & specific to each student

*PAPERS SUBJECT TO APPROVAL

HS823 Health in Aotearoa New Zealand

This course aims to allow students to explore the implications of Te Tiriti o Waitangi for healthcare in Aotearoa New Zealand, as well as cultural and socioeconomic influences on the health of the Aotearoa New Zealand population.

MHS8.424 Global Health

This course aims to provide students with a comprehensive and critical overview of the global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases in an interdisciplinary health context. MHS8.443 Health in Aotearoa New Zealand This course aims to guide students in developing and extending knowledge and skills related to health promotion by critically examining relevant issues in a global and Aotearoa New Zealand context.

MN8.406 Advanced Practice to Support Child and Family Health

This course aims to draw on students’ developing knowledge and understanding of children (tamariki), youth (rangatahi) and families (whanau) to examine the child/youth within the family as the centre of health care from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines.

MN8.412 Advanced Practice in Critical care Nursing – not until 2025

This level 8 online course provides for specialist practice in critical care. The course explores essential theory underpinning practice that assists the registered nurse working in a critical care environment, to develop advanced practice knowledge and skills. Students will explore and critically analyze all aspects of the critical care environment that impact on patient care and professional practice. This includes clinical governance, multidisciplinary team collaboration and the legal and ethical issues related to the provision of care in a bioscience/technical situation.