Program Overview

Master of Nursing (Perioperative Nursing)

Overview

The Master of Nursing (Perioperative Nursing) program is designed for Registered Nurses who want to improve their career prospects with a higher level of formal qualification. The program can be completed over two semesters of part-time study and is offered at the Fremantle Campus.

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 with a previous degree or those with no degree but accumulated experience in nursing.

English Language Requirements

• Two years of full-time secondary, vocational, or tertiary level of study in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Republic of Ireland, South Africa, United Kingdom, or the United States of America.
• If not met, applicants must sit the Academic IELTS exam and achieve a score of at least 7.0 overall and 7.0 in each sub-section (reading, writing, listening, and speaking).

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of the Master of Nursing (Perioperative Nursing), graduates will be able to:

1. Analyze and interpret nursing scenarios to provide evidence-based quality practice.
2. Use reflective practice techniques in a range of learning activities to promote professional practice.
3. Apply leadership and collaborative skills within an interprofessional health care environment.
4. Apply concepts of global, medico-legal, social, and cultural diversity.
5. Identify the distinguishing characteristics of nursing research in terms of purposes, underlying assumptions, and available methodologies.
6. 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.
7. Formulate questions amenable to research and align those questions to appropriate research designs, data collection procedures, techniques, and data analysis.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Apply advanced technical skills and reflective practice within the domain of nursing research.

Career Opportunities

With a Master of Nursing (Perioperative Nursing), graduates can pursue careers as a nurse unit manager, nurse practitioner, nurse educator, or perioperative nurse.

Real-World Experience

Graduates will learn from 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.
• FEE-HELP loan scheme: 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.

For indicative fees and information on how to pay, including Government loan schemes and the online calculator, visit the Fees, costs, and scholarships page.