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The University of Notre Dame Australia

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Master of Nursing (Clinical Nursing)

  • Masters (Coursework)

The Master of Nursing (Clinical Nursing) at the University of Notre Dame Australia is designed for practising Registered Nurses aiming to advance their careers through specialised research. It offers pathways for formalising qualifications and developing expertise in healthcare.

Key details

Degree Type
Masters (Coursework)
Duration
1.5 - 6 semesters full-time, 1.5 - 6 semesters part-time
Course Code
5114
Study Mode
Online
Intake Months
Jan, Jul

About this course

Master of Nursing (Clinical Nursing)

Are you a practising Registered nurse ready to advance your nursing career? The University of Notre Dame Australia's Master of Nursing (Clinical Nursing) 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 Clinical Nursing. Contact us today to discuss your options.

Why study this degree?

Are you a senior nurse with a thesis subject you wish to research and specialise in? Taking a Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma, or Master of Nursing is an excellent career pathway for Registered Nurses who want to formalise their qualifications or develop specialist knowledge in a particular area of healthcare.

You can complete our Master of Nursing (Clinical Nursing) over two semesters of part-time study once you have completed the four Certificate and four Diploma courses. If you do not have a nursing degree, we will consider your accumulated experience when enrolling.

A research supervisor will assist you in choosing a thesis subject relevant to your specialist area of nursing practice. The supervisor will oversee the project to its completion. Call our postgraduate coordinator to discuss your options.

Entry requirements

Entry requirements

The program is open to you if you are a Registered Nurse who has a previous degree or you have accumulated a wealth of experience in nursing but do not have a degree.

English Language Requirements

You must be able to demonstrate 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 you do not meet these requirements you will need to 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) to qualify for entry into the Master of Nursing (Clinical Nursing). This applies to Permanent Residents and Australian citizens whose first language is not English and have not completed two years full-time academic study in Australia. IELTS results will need to be verified by the Admissions Office before an offer of a place can be made. The Admissions Office reserves the right to ask for IELTS results from any applicant. For more information, please visit www.ielts.org

Study locations

Sydney

Fremantle

Broome

Online

What you will learn

Learning outcomes

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

  1. Analyse 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 stake-holders involved a research project; and
  10. Apply advanced technical skills and reflective practice within the domain of nursing research.

Career pathways

Career opportunities

With a Master of Nursing (Clinical Nursing), you can pursue careers as a nurse unit manager, nurse practitioner, nurse educator, and clinical nurse.

Course structure

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

Full details of the program requirements are contained in the Program Requirements.

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