Gain specialized knowledge and skills to support your professional development in nursing, midwifery and patient care through our portfolio of short courses.
Ranging from one day workshops or more in-depth short courses, including microcredentials - where you can accumulate related courses and be eligible to receive credit into a subject belonging to a Graduate Certificate or Diploma - our courses are designed to fit into your busy life.
Choose a course that will provide you with a tailored skill set, allowing you to deliver specialized care in your chosen healthcare area, be it midwifery, paediatrics, nursing, or aged care. They prepare you to offer informed, evidence-based healthcare across diverse settings, including rural and culturally diverse environments.
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Why do a short course at La Trobe?
We have deep partnerships in the sector
We are embedded within healthcare settings, both within Victoria and internationally, which ensures that our education and research programs are contemporary and meet the needs of our communities.
We have expertise
Our researchers, whose work encompasses five key areas relating to health people, families and communities, are working to improve health and wellbeing.
We have impact
Our Rural Health School works with community partners across Victoria, to make difference to rural health outcomes.
Specialisation
Nursing
Our nursing courses can help you acquire or improve specific nursing skills, such as wound care, medication administration, digital health or patient assessment.
Patient and Aged Care
These courses will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide high-quality care to patients. You'll learn about patient assessment, communication, infection control, and other critical aspects of healthcare.
Midwifery
Completing a midwifery short course can open up various career opportunities in the healthcare sector. Midwives are in demand in hospitals, birthing centres, and even home birth settings, and a formal education in midwifery is often required for these positions.
Introductory Courses
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Popular Nursing and Midwifery Short Courses
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Gain fundamental knowledge and best evidence decision-making for health professionals.
Build on the knowledge and skills gained in Foundations of Would Management A and learn how to assist clients with complex wound management challenges
This course is now available via the Master of Nursing, where it has been introduced as a specialisation.
Developed by the Australian Centre for Evidence-Based Aged Care (ACEBAC), this training package will give personal care workers and personal care assistants the skills to recognise and report changes in residents' health, and prevent hospital admissions.
Develop your skills in health assessment for paediatric, adult and older patients and learn in-demand skills in digital health - all in the rural healthcare context.
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Why study Nursing and Midwifery at La Trobe?
Industry experience while you study
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Rising demand
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Powerful Collaborations
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