Postgraduate studies in nursing at QUT are designed for registered nurses, whether they're hospital or university trained, so that they can come and upgrade their qualifications in an area of interest to them.

One of the great advantages of studying at QUT with our staff in nursing is the fact that we're all very experienced clinically in the field. A lot of us are actually working while we're teaching in particular health facilities, either researching or working clinically, and we actually really have an understanding of what your needs are in terms of learning.

So we've got a very flexible program. We can offer things internally, we can offer study externally, completely online ... We'll offer you teleconferences, personal email contact, face–to-face contact if you need it and you can accommodate that ... Vodcasts, so that if you're working night duty you can actually stream our lectures as you're having a shift break or something. So our courses are actually really flexible.

We know that some of you are a bit concerned about the costs of higher degree study. To offset that concern, we actually have, in our graduate certificate program, Commonwealth support. That means that the government actually pay for a fair proportion of your study costs, up to about 50%
roughly, for the four units of the graduate certificate. And that particular arrangement also holds for our nurse practitioner students. One of the other advantages of studying, if you come from a Queensland Health facility for example, is that you can actually have your facility pay some way towards your study costs with your SARAS or your professional development leave funding.

One of the great things about graduating from QUT is that it upgrades your qualifications and that's often recognised by your employer in terms of an upgrade in pay to actually recognise that qualification.

Study can be tailored to what your learning needs are. You can actually do a clinical stream, a research stream or what we call a professional studies stream that's tailored to your needs. Our clinical areas of expertise are in aged care and dementia, cancer nursing, palliative care, intensive care, emergency, women's health, acute care, which encompasses things like renal and orthopaedics according to your needs ... So we offer a variety of study areas that should be able to be tailored to everything that you need to do.

One of the great advantages of our clinical streams is that they're workplace based. So a lot of your study is actually tailored towards what you're practising at the moment in the field and the assessments are actually based on what you're doing at work at that given time, which is a real advantage because it's a very economical way of studying as well as a very practised, real-world way of studying.

So if you're interested in coming to study with us at QUT in nursing, please give me a ring or come and see me personally. I'm really happy to talk to any of you, to chat, to see what sort of program we can tailor for your needs, and help you get ahead to where you want to go.