Program Overview
Master of Nursing (Coursework)
Overview
The Master of Nursing (Coursework) is a postgraduate program designed for practicing Registered Nurses who wish to advance their nursing career and formalize their specialized knowledge in a particular area of healthcare.
Program Summary
- 75 Units of Credit from three (3) Postgraduate Elective courses
- 75 Units of Credit from three (3) Postgraduate Nursing courses
- 25 Units of Credit from one (1) Postgraduate Research Elective Course
- 25 Units of Credit from one (1) core curriculum course
- 100 Units of Credit from two (2) Master courses
Entry Requirements
The program is open to Registered Nurses who have a previous degree in Nursing or equivalent, and have a minimum of one-year relevant post-registration nursing experience.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the Master of Nursing (Coursework), graduates will be able to:
- Analyze 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 healthcare 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 generalizability (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 stakeholders involved in a research project
- Apply advanced technical skills and reflective practice within the domain of nursing research
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.
Real-World Experience
You will learn from our academics, who are leaders in their field. There are no practicum requirements for this program.
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 of 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.
Locations
- Online
- Fremantle
- Broome
- Sydney
- Clinical Schools
Specializations
- Master of Nursing (Clinical Nursing)
- Master of Nursing (Executive Leadership)
- Master of Nursing (Mental Health)
- Master of Nursing (Perioperative Nursing)
