Nursing and Allied Health
The Alfred is also an ideal place to study nursing or allied health disciplines. The Alfred is home to one of Australia’s busiest emergency and trauma centres, the state’s largest intensive care unit, Victoria’s only heart and lung transplant service, the Victorian Adults Burn Service, the Victorian Melanoma Service and more.
Alfred Health
The Nursing and Allied Health Education Service delivers a range of education programs, including:
- Occupational Therapy new graduate program
- Graduate nurse program
- Physiotherapy new graduate program
- Professional development courses
- Nursing research programs in partnership with Deakin University Centre for quality and Patient Safety (see below).
- Specialty postgraduate courses in partnership with Deakin University or La Trobe University (see below).
Deakin University
Deakin’s Centre for Quality and Patient Safety Research in partnership with Alfred Health offers a range of postgraduate programs, including:
- PhD and Master’s degrees in areas including patient safety, health service evaluation, clinical decision making and integrated knowledge translation
- Master of Nursing Practice – advanced clinical practice – specialty practice: cardiac care, critical care, intensive care, interventional cardiology, emergency care and perioperative nursing
- Master of Nursing Practice (Nurse Practitioner)
La Trobe University
La Trobe nursing and allied health students undertake clinical placements at Alfred Health, with postgraduate nursing degrees offered in priority clinical areas. Offering on-site postgraduate education in areas including:
- Non-pharmacological management of chronic lung disease
- Neurological rehabilitation
- Time-critical interventions
- Translation of research into practice
- Master of Nursing Science
Spotlight on nursing research
Improving the safety and care of hospitalised patients in isolation
Researchers from Alfred Health, Deakin University and Monash Universities received funding from the Victorian Nurses and Midwives Trust to conduct a codesigned project with patients, families, nurses and infection control experts to identify and test the feasibility of a nurse-led intervention to improve care of patients in isolation.