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Upskill fast. La Trobe’s short courses help you get up-to-speed in your industry or make a switch into a new career. Build the skills you choose.
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Employers ranked La Trobe graduates the most innovative and adaptable in Victoria.
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Our graduates have an employer satisfaction rating of 86.1%
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Business and commerce
Education and teaching
The Science of Language and Reading – An Introduction
Advance your knowledge and skills in the field of reading instruction and support.
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Mental health and wellbeing in schools
Gain valuable skills to improve the emotional wellbeing of your students.
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Health
Endorsed Scheduled Medicines (ESM) Online Case Studies
Discuss the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, uses and contraindications of medicines available to endorsed podiatrists.
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Introduction to Counselling Skills
Focus on the development of effective, basic counselling skills.
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Introduction to Art Therapy
This two-day workshop offers a more in-depth version of the one-day taster workshop.
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Art Therapy Supervision Skills for Health Professionals
This 5-day short course will provide theoretical components and opportunities to practise supervision skills in a group setting.
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Laughter, Resilience and Wellbeing
Develop essential “laugh skills” to optimise wellbeing and promote mental health.
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Person-centred Care Through Shared Decision Making
Understand and strengthen your delivery of person-centred care through shared decision making.
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Supervision of Art Therapy Supervision Practice
This workshop is suitable for art therapists and other health professionals who are currently supervising art therapists/trainees.
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Animal Assisted Therapy for Healthcare Professionals
Advance your therapeutic practice through Animal Assisted Therapy. This course will enable healthcare professionals to upskill in a growing area, providing additional therapeutic services to benefit their clients.
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Speech Pathology with Trans and Gender Diverse People
Support transgender people with voice and communication.
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Podiatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Explore the role of shame as a by-product of trauma, drawing on various theories and therapies, and how it manifests in clients, and how to move onwards to empowerment and independence.
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Introduction to Counselling Skills
Focus on the development of effective, basic counselling skills.
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Introduction to Art Therapy
This two-day workshop offers a more in-depth version of the one-day taster workshop.
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Art Therapy Supervision Skills for Health Professionals
This 5-day short course will provide theoretical components and opportunities to practise supervision skills in a group setting.
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Laughter, Resilience and Wellbeing
Develop essential “laugh skills” to optimise wellbeing and promote mental health.
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Supervision of Art Therapy Supervision Practice
This workshop is suitable for art therapists and other health professionals who are currently supervising art therapists/trainees.
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Animal Assisted Therapy for Healthcare Professionals
Advance your therapeutic practice through Animal Assisted Therapy. This course will enable healthcare professionals to upskill in a growing area, providing additional therapeutic services to benefit their clients.
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Building Team Resilience
Explore the concept of team resilience and what managers can do to build positive team cultures, while considering the challenges for staff working in helping professions with responses that sustain trauma informed practice.
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Shame, Trauma and Family Relationships
Explore the role of shame as a by-product of trauma, drawing on various theories and therapies, and how it manifests in clients, and how to move onwards to empowerment and independence.
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Leadership and Management in Healthcare
Scrutinise different types of leadership and whether the nomenclature of leadership and management is interchangeable or two different skillsets.
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Pain Management
Get the skills and knowledge fundamental to providing quality pain management care.
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Comprehensive Health Assessment of the Older Person
Develop hands-on skills in assessment, care planning and care delivery for older people.
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Perioperative Nurse Surgical Assistant (PNSA)
Advance your knowledge and skills in the field of perioperative nursing practice.
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Prostate Nursing Care
Develop knowledge and skills in the specialist practice area of prostate nursing care.
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Urology and Continence
An opportunity to examine contemporary urological and continence nursing.
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Advanced Health Assessment
Perform and interpret advanced nursing assessments on patients and clients.
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Leadership and Management in Healthcare
Scrutinise different types of leadership and whether the nomenclature of leadership and management is interchangeable or two different skillsets.
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Re-entry to Practice (RN)
Meet the requirements for Division One registration, allowing re-entry to nursing within the Australian healthcare context.
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Person-centred Care Through Shared Decision Making
Understand and strengthen your delivery of person-centred care through shared decision making.
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First Nations Perinatal Health
The First Nations Perinatal Health short course is designed for midwives and maternal and child health nurses working with First Nations families during the perinatal period and wanting to provide culturally safe care.
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Data Collection and Analysis in Midwifery Research
This short course is targeted at midwives and maternal and child health nurses and who would like to gain increased understanding of research and evidence.
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Introduction to Evidence-based Midwifery Practice
Interpret and understand research evidence and its impact on midwifery practice. Specific areas of focus within this course will include the foundations of evidence-based practice with an understanding of various research designs including quantitative and qualitative approaches.
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