Overview

Use your current nursing qualifications to upskill into the interesting area of forensics, with a Graduate Diploma of Forensic Mental Health Nursing. You’ll learn the necessary skills for success in this area, which includes an understanding of legal and correctional systems, working effectively with challenging patients and behaviours, and factors that influence offending.

View the Graduate Diploma of Forensic Mental Health Nursing course handbook
There's still time to apply for Semester 1, 2025

Don't wait another year. Submit an application now and start your studies on Monday 3 March.

Upgrade your skills

  • Apply advanced knowledge to individual mental health factors
  • Cognitive skills
  • Technical skills
  • Communication skills
  • Deliver effective treatments

Stretch your career further

  • Forensic mental health nurse
  • Nurse in a prison setting
  • Nurse in a court setting
  • General mental health nurse
International student visa

International students in Australia who hold student visas are required to study full-time and on campus. Courses that are taught entirely online are only available to international students studying outside Australia or those in Australia who are not on a student visa. Online courses are not available to international students in Australia who hold a student visa.

Professional partnership

This course is offered through the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science at Swinburne, in collaboration with the Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health (Forensicare).

Why Swinburne?

Ranked top 250 in the world for the subject of psychology

Times Higher Education World University Ranking by Subject 2023

83.5% of students found employment within 4 months of graduating

Ranked top 20% in Australia for 5-star PG Overall experience