Master of Nursing (Leadership & Management in Health)
Strive for leadership and managerial roles in healthcare. Learn to lead people and manage health care organisations.
About the Course
Learn to lead people and manage health care organisations. You’ll study contemporary clinical leadership theory and build your own leadership traits. Explore legal and ethical considerations. Develop staff, build teams, and become an agent of change.
Course Entry Requirements
- Completed a 3-year bachelor degree in the area of nursing from an Australian university, or equivalent.
- Hold a current Professional Registration as a Division 1 nurse, or equivalent, with either Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) or relevant regulatory body in applicant's home country.
- Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
Course Structure
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
HEA6001 Contexts of Practice
HEA6101 Foundations of Gerontology Practice
HEA6102 Perspectives of Healthy Ageing
NUR6340 The Law and Health Care Practice or HEA6302 Culture as Determinant of Health
Year 2
HSC6050 Research Methodology for Human Sciences
HEA6105 Perspectives on ‘End-of-Life’
HEA6104 Alzheimer's and Dementia: Contemporary Practices
1 x Elective
Year 3
HSC6060 Research Project Design
NUR6060 Health Policy Analysis and Review
HSC6070 Health Masters Project A or NUR6075 Research Implementation Project
HESC6080 Health Masters Project B or 1 x Elective
Award requirements
Completion of 12 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.
Exit points
Graduate Certificate of Nursing.
Upon completion of this program, graduates will be able to:
- Display an advanced body of seminal, conceptual, and data-based knowledge in nursing.
- Communicate an advanced knowledge of research principles and methods applicable to health and nursing.
- Review conceptual and data-based literature using cognitive and technical skills to critique, evaluate, and identify best evidence to improve individual, community, and population health outcomes.
- Apply evidence-based decision-making to clinical, policy, education, and/or practice situations.
- Lead people and projects in diverse situations with a high degree of creativity, autonomy, and accountability, demonstrating appropriate judgement and responsibility as an expert practitioner.
- Communicate at a high level in interpersonal, inter-professional, and intercultural situations with people of diverse ages, backgrounds, and needs.
- Employ advanced skills in competent, caring, and professional nursing practice.
