Programme Overview:
- Duration:
- 1 Years / 2 Years
- Attendance:
- Full Time / Part Time
- Mode of Delivery:
- Face-to-Face
- Next Intake:
- 2024/2025 September
- Contact Name:
- Asmahan McCambridge
- Contact Number:
- +353(0)1 716 6490
- Fees:
- Fee Information
Critical care nursing requires an advanced knowledge base, skilled assessment, prompt intervention, and ongoing evaluation to care for the critically ill with complex needs. This course will provide the nurse with an opportunity to develop, enhance and maintain these specialist skills that are required to care for the critically ill.
Major Strengths
UCD has a long history of producing high-quality graduates
This programme enables graduates to be even more effective clinicians, change agents and clinical leaders in Critical Care
Access to clinical and university-based lecturers with national and international expertise from clinical, research and educational perspectives
The Programme employs a variety of innovative assessment strategies with a strong clinical focus
Extensive use of IT in supporting the teaching environment of the programme
Access to excellent facilities for lectures
The Graduate Diploma Critical Care Nursing: Intensive Care provides you with the comprehensive knowledge and skills required for caring for the critically ill. The key knowledge and skills gained on this Programme will also enable you to innovate and lead in your area of practice in Critical Care.
Curricular information is subject to change
Full Time option suitable for:
Domestic(EEA) applicants: Yes
International (Non EEA) applicants currently residing outside of the EEA Region. No
Part Time option suitable for:
Domestic(EEA) applicants: Yes
International (Non EEA) applicants currently residing outside of the EEA Region. No
This programme is aimed at advancing the registered nurse’s repertoire of knowledge and skills for professional practice in the care of patients within the critical care environment.
The purpose of the Graduate Diploma in Nursing (Critical Care: Intensive Care) is to support graduate students in enhancing their existing knowledge, skills and behaviours, in order to respond effectively to current needs of the critically ill patient in the intensive care clinical setting. The programme promotes an integrated, flexible, student-centred, patient-focused, and dynamic approach to learning, in order to enrich students' continuous professional and societal contribution, and their personal development. This programme actively fosters informed, relevant, skilled, ethical, innovative, reflexive, careful, research-led clinical and educational practice, so as to develop ‘fit-for-purpose’ professional practitioners and dynamic leaders in this complex and challenging field.
A wide variety of current, validated, pedagogical approaches and innovative, creative technologies are integrated and utilised in this programme, to ensure excellence in all teaching and learning processes and to enhance the overall student experience. The comprehensive engagement of our clinical partner sites in this programme's design and delivery and the resultant valuable student learning opportunities, are major strengths. The programme is delivered by experts in the fields of scholarship, education, and practice discipline and patient advocacy. This ensures that learners experience a coherent, cumulative, research-based educational programme that meets all academic and professional regulatory standards and requirements.
The Graduate Diploma in Critical Care Nursing – Intensive Care is a 60 ECTS programme offered over1-year full time (X547) or two years part-time (X745).
Assessments are varied (assignments/short examination questions/MCQ/case presentation/practical examination) and occur at intervals throughout and at the end of the trimesters.
There are two Core Modules (& year one of X745):
NMHS43260 Nursing Knowledge Philosophy and Practice (Autumn Trimester, 10 ECTS)
NMHS43270 Research Methods Applied to Healthcare (Spring Trimester, 10 ECTS)
Four Specialist Modules (& year two of X745):
NMHS 32440/42630 Core Concepts of ICU Nursing (Autumn Trimester, 10 ECTS) *
NMHS42770 Complex Critically Ill Patient (Spring Trimester, 10 ECTS)
NMHS42780 Chronically Critically Ill (Spring Trimester, 10 ECTS)
NMHS42520 Clinical Practicum (ICU) (Year Long Module, 10 ECTS)
*Please note that students are eligible to apply for exemption from NMHS 32440 based on successful completion of the following modules.
NMHS 32770: National Foundation Module in Critical Care Nursing
NMHS 31820 Foundation Intensive Care Nursing MMUH
NMHS32830 Foundation Intensive Care Nursing SVUH
GradDip Nursing ICU (X547) Full Time
EU fee per year - € 10150
nonEU fee per year - € 19400
GradDip Nursing (X745) Part Time
EU Year 1 - € 5240
nonEU Year 1 - € 9850
EU Year 2 - € 5060 aa
nonEU Year 2 - € 9540 aa
aaSecond Year Fee applies to Students in 2nd Year in 2024 and who were a 1st Year Student on the programme in 2023/24
***Fees are subject to change
If the fees for your programme are being paid by a third party (full or partial), please ensure your funding organisation/sponsor/hospital contacts student.payments@ucd.ie. Please note this is not a student facing email address.
If you have any queries about your fees, please contact the Student Desk:
https://www.ucd.ie/students/studentdesk/
Please note that all applicants are required to pay the €60 application fee. Your application cannot be processed fully unless the application fee has been paid.
More information about fees is available on the UCD website at the link below:
All applicants must hold a primary degree in Nursing (or equivalent in a related discipline)/RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning) consideration if no degree
All applicants must be listed on the Register of Nurses and Midwives, which is maintained by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland (NMBI).
All applicants must have at least one year’s post-registration experience at the time of application
All applicants must be employed in intensive care nursing for the duration of the programme and work a minimum of 75 hours per month
Also, each student must provide documented evidence from the Director of Nursing in the clinical practice area, which guarantees ICU placement for the duration of the programme
Documents Required
Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
RPL may be granted in respect of individual modules if applicants can demonstrate that the modules' learning outcomes have been achieved through prior credentialled or experiential learning. In some cases, where an applicant does not meet the prerequisites for entry to a programme, an RPL application may be considered. Further information can be found in respect of this here.
The following entry routes are available:
* Courses will remain open until such time as all places have been filled, therefore early application is advised