Enrolled Nursing Advanced Speciality Practice (Acute Care) Skill Set
This skill set lets you specialise and expand your practice with flexibility, building specialist skills while continuing your professional practice. Learning is delivered through self-directed online study combined with workplace practice and observation.
Overview
Campus Joondalup (McLarty Avenue)
When Semester 2, 2026
How Online
Build specialist skills and expertise in acute nursing care
Enhance your nursing expertise and develop advanced skills to care for patients in acute care settings, including orthopaedics, respiratory, cardiovascular, diabetes, maternity, paediatrics, and end-of-life care.
This skill set lets you specialise and expand your practice with flexibility, building specialist skills while continuing your professional practice. You’ll gain the knowledge and hands-on experience to advance your career, increase employment opportunities, and open pathways to higher-level nursing roles.
Learning is delivered through self-directed online study combined with workplace practice and observation. Successfully completing the units in this skill set may contribute towards the Advanced Diploma of Nursing or support your pathway to a Bachelor of Nursing to become a registered nurse at university.
- Rapid assessment and monitoring of patient condition
- Management of complex clinical interventions (IV therapy, medications, wound care)
- Specialist knowledge in conditions like cardiovascular, respiratory, orthopaedic, and diabetes care
- Collaboration with multidisciplinary healthcare teams
- Current registration as an enrolled nurse
- A commitment to patient safety and quality care
- Organisation, self-motivation, and the ability to complete self-directed tasks
Select your preferred campus and apply
Semester 2, 2026
Details
Course fees
| Tuition | Resource | Total fee* | |
|---|---|---|---|
| General | $1,910.70 | $105.00 | $2,015.70 |
*Fee disclaimers
The fees quoted are estimates only and are for the entire course for local students enrolling on a full-time basis. Please view the full list of Fee disclaimers.
Please note fees listed include all units required to gain this qualification. If you're a continuing student and have successfully completed a lower-level qualification that is a prerequisite for this course, you'll only pay for the units that you need to enrol in, to complete this course.
Enquiries regarding fees can be made by calling us.
Units
| National ID | Unit title |
|---|---|
| HLTENN049 | Apply nursing practice in the orthopaedic care setting |
| HLTENN055 | Apply nursing practice in the respiratory care setting |
| HLTENN056 | Apply nursing practice in the cardiovascular care setting |
| HLTENN057 | Contribute to the nursing care of a person with diabetes |
| HLTENN068 | Provide end of life care and a palliative approach in nursing practice |
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