Nurse Anesthesia

Programme Structure

Courses include:

• Advanced Health Assessment and Clinical Diagnosis
• Clinical Anesthesia Practicum
• Advanced Pharmacology
• Advanced Physiology
• Pathophysiology
• Physics, Equipment, and Safety for Anesthesia
• Regional Anesthesia

Admission requirements

Academic requirements

• GPA: 3

English requirements

• Duolingo English Test: 110
• TOEFL iBT: 79
• PTE Academic: 58
• IELTS: 6.5

General requirements

• Baccalaureate or graduate degree in nursing from an accredited program
• Current RN licensure
• Current Advanced Cardiac Life Support (ACLS)
• Current Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
• CCRN Certification
• Currently employed in an ICU (SICU, MICU, CICU, Neurotrauma, Pediatric ICU in an academic teaching setting). PACU and ER employment are not accepted as ICU experience, with a minimum of one year full-time ICU experience
• Shadowing experience at your hospital of employment.
• Applicant Personal Statement a summary (1-2 pages) double-spaced highlighting your professional nursing career. Please include reasons for desiring the nurse anesthesia profession.
• Three (3) professional references are required two (2) from current ICU RN co-workers and one (1) from your immediate RN ICU supervisor.

Tuition Fees

• International: 78,067 AUD / year (≈ 55,593 USD / year) — Non-residents
• Out-of-State: 78,067 AUD / year (≈ 55,593 USD / year)
• Domestic, In-State: 38,525 AUD / year (≈ 27,434 USD / year)

Living costs

Detroit, United States: 1,474-2,486 AUD / month