Master of Nursing (Coursework)
School of Nursing & Midwifery
Are you a practising Registered nurse ready to advance your nursing career? The University of Notre Dame Australia’s Master of Nursing (Coursework) will allow you to select a relevant area to research so you can formalise your specialised knowledge in your chosen field. You can enrol in this course if you have completed a Graduate Certificate or Graduate Diploma in Nursing. Contact us today to discuss your options.
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Why study this degree?
If you are a Registered Nurse, a Master of Nursing is a useful career pathway if you want to formalise your qualifications or perhaps develop a specialist knowledge in a particular area of healthcare.
Our Master of Nursing (Coursework) can be completed over two semesters of part-time study once you have completed the four Certificate and four Diploma courses. Because you will choose a thesis subject relevant to your specialist area of nursing practice, you should discuss your study program with your postgraduate coordinator beforehand.
As with our other postgraduate programs, the Master of Nursing is aimed at practising Registered Nurses who wish to develop their knowledge and improve their skills so that they can operate at an advanced level. As a Master’s student, you will be allocated a research supervisor who will help you choose a relevant research subject and oversee the completion of the program.
The following specialisations are available for this course:
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Program summary
Three (3) Postgraduate Nursing Courses
- NURS4037 Clinical Governance
- NURS5006 Professional Role Development
- NURS5021 Management
One (1) Postgraduate Research Course
- NURS5003 Evidence Based Practice
Two (2) Masters Courses
- NURS6001 Supervised Dissertion Nursing
- NURS6015 Project Proposal Development
One (1) Core Curriculum Course
- PHIL6020 Ethical Issues in Professional Life
Three (3) Postgraduate Elective Courses
- MEDI5121 Learning and Facilitation in Health Professional Education
- MEDI5123 Reasoning and Clinical Innovation
- MEDI5110 Contemporary Issues in Health Professional Education and Leadership
- NURS6007 Introduction to Perinatal and Infant Mental Health
- COUN5500 Counselling Skills for the Professions
- NURS4037 Clinical Governance
- NURS5000 Deteriorating Patient Acute Care
- NURS5017 Emotional Intelligence
- NURS5006 Professional Role Development
- BUSN5005 Business Analytics
- BUSN5290 Negotiation Skills
- BUSN5750 Organisations, Power, Leadership and Transformation
- BUSN5000 Economics for Managers
- BUSN5740 Strategic Workforce Issues
- BUSN5600 Strategic Management and Planning
- BUSN5680 Leading Change
- NURS5021 Management
- NURS4020 Nursing Leadership Development Strategies
- NURS4023 Patient Care, Quality and Best Practice
- NURS4000 Advanced Health Assessment
Specialisations are available in Mental Health, Perioperative Nursing, Executive Leadership and Clincial Nursing.
Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Requirements.
Please note: the availability of these courses is indicative only and may be subject to change.
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Entry requirements
The program is open to you if you are a Registered Nurse who has a previous degree in Nursing or equivalent, and have a minimum of one-year relevant post-registration nursing experience.
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Learning outcomes
Upon successful completion of the Master of Nursing (Coursework) graduates will be able to:
- Analyse and interpret nursing scenarios to provide evidence based quality practice
- Use reflective practice techniques in a range of learning activities to promote professional practice
- Apply leadership and collaborative skills within an interprofessional health care environment
- Apply concepts of global, medico-legal, social and cultural diversity
- Identify the distinguishing characteristics of nursing research in terms of purposes, underlying assumptions and available methodologies
- Explore the principal paradigms employed in health and nursing research and differentiate between them in terms of their epistemological bases, their respective strengths and limitations in addressing different types of research
- Formulate questions amenable to research and align those questions to appropriate research designs, data collection procedures, techniques and data analysis
- Critique examples of research studies and models, identifying strengths and limitations of design that might threaten the internal validity and generalisability (external validity) of the findings
- Identify the important ethical or other issues when conducting nursing research and apply value appropriate safeguards to the interests of all stake-holders involved a research project; and
- Apply advanced technical skills and reflective practice within the domain of nursing research.
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Career opportunities
With a Master of Nursing (Coursework), you can pursue careers as a nurse unit manager, nurse practitioner, nurse educator, acute care nurse, and clinical nurse.
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Real-world experience
You will learn from our academics, who are leaders in their field. There are no practicum requirements for this program.
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Fees and costs
This Program has the following loan scheme(s) available for eligible students:
Domestic Fee-Paying
A domestic fee-paying place is a place at university where the student is responsible for the full cost the program.Eligible domestic fee-paying students may apply for the FEE-HELP loan scheme which assists eligible fee-paying students with the payment of all, or part, of their tuition fees, not including additional study costs such as accommodation or textbooks. Your FEE-HELP debt will be indexed each year in line with the Consumer Price Index.
For indicative fees and information on how to pay, including Government loan schemes and our online calculator, visit our Fees, costs and scholarships page.
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