Graduate Diploma in Infection Risk Management (Level 7)

Summary

Do you work in a public health, clinical health, scientific, or food production environment and need to know about how to prevent and minimise the spread of infection?

Our graduate courses are not only for nurses and other clinical staff, but anyone whose field of work involves the potential for infection transmission, such as scientists, lab technicians or allied health workers.

In this one-year Graduate Diploma you develop your skills and knowledge in microbiology, epidemiology and epidemiological research, and learn best-practice strategies to prevent and minimise the spread of infectious organisms.

Leadership is a strong focus of this course and using evidence-based research, you explore leadership issues and how they relate to the implementation and coordination of infection risk management.

You also learn what’s involved in delivering effective monitoring and quality assurance programmes.

Upon successfully completing the requirements you'll receive the award of:

• Graduate Diploma in Infection Risk Management

Additional awards included:

• Graduate Certificate in Infection Risk Management

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES

Employment in the areas of:

• public health or health monitoring
• education
• science or environmental analysis
• food production
• auditing
• communicable diseases
• local government
• as an infection prevention and control clinician

TOPICS YOU'LL COVER

• Microbiology for Infection Risk Management
• Epidemiology
• Fundamentals of Infection Risk Management
• Leadership of Infection Risk Management
• Infection Risk Management in Practice
• Applied Research

STUDY OPTIONS

If you have already completed the Graduate Certificate in Infection Risk Management, you can finish this course in 19 weeks (full time).

Offered online or partly online

FURTHER STUDY OPTIONS

Master of Applied Professional Studies (Infection Prevention and Control)