Master of Nursing
Duration:
2 years full-time
Intakes:
- March
- July
Required Score:
- 6.5 IELTS (Academic) with no individual band less than 6.0.
- PTE - Overall score of 58 with no communicative skill score less than 50
About the Master of Nursing
Tailor your studies to your career aspirations with La Trobe’s Master of Nursing.
Pursue clinical specialisations in relevant hospital settings with our prestigious health partners, or complete non-clinical specialisations to develop advanced knowledge of nursing research along with the critical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills you need to thrive as a nursing researcher, educator or leader.
By completing La Trobe’s Master of Nursing, you will:
- learn to effectively plan, implement and evaluate practice in your specialised context, make high-level independent judgements, and function effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- benefit from a flexible, blended learning approach that offers face-to-face or fully online study options that you can fit around your work commitments
- choose from clinical specialisations in acute care, cardiac care, critical care, medical imaging, neonatal care, neonatal special care, and perioperative practices; or non-clinical specialisations in health management, leadership or public health
- explore the introduction to nursing in the Australian context, including an understanding of professional standards and the healthcare organisational system
- investigate legal and ethical issues pertinent to nursing practice.
- learn to effectively plan, implement and evaluate practice in your specialised context, make high-level independent judgements, and function effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- benefit from a flexible, blended learning approach that offers face-to-face or fully online study options that you can fit around your work commitments
- choose from clinical specialisations in acute care, cardiac care, critical care, medical imaging, neonatal care, neonatal special care, and perioperative practices; or non-clinical specialisations in health management, leadership or public health
- explore the introduction to nursing in the Australian context, including an understanding of professional standards and the healthcare organisational system
- investigate legal and ethical issues pertinent to nursing practice.
- learn to effectively plan, implement and evaluate practice in your specialised context, make high-level independent judgements, and function effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team
- benefit from a flexible, blended learning approach that offers face-to-face or fully online study options that you can fit around your work commitments
- choose from clinical specialisations in acute care, cardiac care, critical care, medical imaging, neonatal care, neonatal special care, and perioperative practices; or non-clinical specialisations in health management, leadership or public health
- explore the introduction to nursing in the Australian context, including an understanding of professional standards and the healthcare organisational system
- investigate legal and ethical issues pertinent to nursing practice.
However you choose to structure your study, La Trobe recognises your hard work. Here are the pathways you could follow as you move through your course.
Master of Nursing intended learning outcomes
- Synthesise advanced nursing knowledge, skill and scholarship to make independent judgements in complex nursing scenarios and professional nursing contexts.
- Critique and synthesise developments in a specialised area of professional nursing practice.
- Contextualise clinical information and generate complex ideas and concepts to inform practice and leadership in a professional nursing context.
- Communicate effectively and sensitively with colleagues, clients/patients and the public in a variety of professional and social contexts in accordance with the ethical standards of the profession.
- Critically reflect on theory and scholarship, adapting established theories and current evidence to inform knowledge and professional practice.
- Defend scholarship and knowledge in a range of contexts for research and clinical practice to optimise population and care outcomes
- Formulate research principles and methods to execute evidence-based scholarship.
Master of Nursing career opportunities
Depending on your specialisation, you could be eligible for a range of clinical or non-clinical healthcare roles, including:
- acute, cardiac, critical, medical imaging, perioperative practice or neonatal care nurse
- clinical nurse manager
- clinical nurse specialist
- director of nursing or chief nursing officer
- nurse educator
- nurse researcher.
Scholarships Information:
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