Master of Nursing (Coursework)

On completion of this program students should be able to achieve the following learning outcomes:

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

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.

Professional recognition

Master of Nursing (Coursework) is not ANMAC accredited. University of Notre Dame PG Graduates are industry recognised through specific salary structures.

Higher education

To be eligible for admission to the Master of Nursing (Coursework) applicants must hold a recognised Bachelor of Nursing degree or equivalent, current licence to practice as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia or provisional registration and have a minimum of one year relevant post registration nursing experience.

English Proficiency Requirements

Defined as the successful completion of secondary education or a Bachelor’s degree in Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Canada or the Republic of Ireland.

Students who have English as an Additional language and are admitted on the basis of an International English Language Testing System (IELTS) assessment, or an equivalent English language proficiency assessment, are only admitted if they have attained n overall IELTS (or equivalent) score of 7.0, with no individual band score below 7.0.

All English language tests are valid for two years from the date of completion

 Applications for Advanced Standing and Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) will be considered and reviewed on a case by case basis by UNDA's Student Administration.

Nursing is a practice profession that requires all nurses to maintain competency and participate in activities that contribute to professional and practice development. The Master of Nursing program aims to enhance the knowledge and confidence of nurses to conduct independent studies. Students will learn the pragmatic considerations of systematic inquiry by adopting an experiential, inquiry-based approach to learning. The program will promote debate and discussion enabling the student to become a competent consumer of evidence-based practice and able to contribute knowledge to the discipline of nursing. Questions arising from the student’s nursing practice will address contemporary health care issues. The focus of the online program will be to evaluate evidence in order to make informed judgements about the robustness and utility of the findings to nursing practice. The program will also provide an important link between research and nursing practice, and will encourage the development of a culture of collaborative studies between practice and academia. Students who have completed a Graduate Diploma and a core curriculum course can apply for advanced standing and be eligible for specialisation. 

Recommended Study Pattern

To be eligible for the award of Master of Nursing (Coursework) students must complete a minimum of 300 Units of Credit chosen from the courses comprising:

• Three (3) Postgraduate Elective courses
• Three (3) Postgraduate Nursing courses
• One (1) Postgraduate Research Elective Course
• One (1) core curriculum course
• Two (2) Master courses.

Award Requirements

To be eligible for the award of Master of Nursing (Coursework) students must complete a minimum of 300 Units of Credit comprising: three (3) Postgraduate Elective courses, three (3) Postgraduate Nursing courses, one (1) Postgraduate Research Elective Course, one (1) core curriculum course and two (2) Master courses.