Master of Nursing (Coursework)

Masters (Coursework)

The Master of Nursing (Coursework) at the University of Notre Dame Australia is designed for practising Registered Nurses aiming to advance their careers through specialised research and knowledge formalisation. It offers various specialisations and is structured to enhance professional skills and expertise.

Key details

Degree Type

Masters (Coursework)

Duration

1.5 - 6 semesters full-time

Course Code

5114

Study Mode

Online

Intake Months

Jan, Jul

About this course

Overview

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.

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:

Master of Nursing (Clinical Nursing)
Master of Nursing (Executive Leadership)
Master of Nursing (Mental Health)
Master of Nursing (Perioperative Nursing)

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.

Study locations

Sydney

Fremantle

Broome

Online

What you will learn

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
Apply advanced technical skills and reflective practice within the domain of nursing research

Career pathways

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.

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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