This programme is designed to strengthen and deepen the student’s knowledge and expertise in critical care nursing across the continuum of the speciality. The programme will enable graduates to function with appropriate and relevant advanced clinical competencies necessary within critical care nursing as well as enhancing their ability to critically apply and evaluate contemporary evidence to their own practice. The Postgraduate Diploma in Adult Critical Care Nursing seeks to develop a critical care nurse specialist who will use expert evidence-based knowledge to enhance adult patient care within a continuum of care, including tertiary prevention.