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Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (Emergency Care)

  • Professional development for Registered Nurses
  • Choose a clinical specialty focus
  • Gain leadership skills and enhance your practice

Program summary

Program title: Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (Emergency Care)
Award abbreviation:
MAdvNursPrac(Emerg Care)
Degree type: coursework
Study mode: on campus (blended)
Duration: 1 year full-time or equivalent part-time
Commence: Semester 1 or Semester 2
Fee type 2012: postgraduate coursework places 
Total courses: 8
USC program code: SC741
CRICOS code: Not available to international students on a Student Visa

Enhance your nursing practice and job opportunities.

Designed specifically for registered nurses, this suite includes study in leadership to enable you to explore opportunities for practice development, and to extend your knowledge in relation to clinical governance, legal and ethical issues.

The Postgraduate Certificate in Nursing (Advanced Practice) provides educational opportunities to advance your knowledge and skills in the area of physical, psych-social and mental health assessment, as well as explore your area of clinical expertise at an advanced level. This is a stand-alone program, but also forms the first four courses in both the Master of Advanced Nursing Practice and the Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (Emergency Care).

The Master of Advanced Nursing Practice allows you to develop your capabilities in providing leadership in practice in the future. You can choose electives that enhance your practice and broaden your knowledge as it relates to health and nursing.

The Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (Emergency Care) offers you the opportunity to add to your knowledge and skills, with studies in the challenging area of emergency nursing.

These advanced nursing programs are delivered in an internal/blended mode. Courses use a combination of online learning and on-campus intensive workshops. Assessment is tailored to meet your clinical learning needs and provides the opportunity to demonstrate advanced assessment skills.

Admission requirements

Students are required to be Registered Nurses, normally with an undergraduate degree in nursing or related discipline. Students will normally be employed in an emergency clinical environment at least 0.4 FTE.

International students will have gained registration as a nurse and a current or temporary license to practice as a registered nurse in Queensland. They will normally be employed in an emergency clinical environment at least 0.4 FTE.

Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) - Registration

For professional registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA), graduates are required to demonstrate English language skills at IELTS level 7 or equivalent. Test results from relevant examinations will generally need to be obtained within two years prior to applying for registration. For current information about AHPRA registration go to http://www.ahpra.gov.au

Enquiries

Faculty of Science, Health, Education and Engineering
Tel: +61 7 5430 2869
Email: sheinfo@usc.edu.au

Program structure

Program requirements and notes
  • Students are required to be Registered Nurses, normally with an undergraduate degree in nursing or related discipline. Students will normally be employed in an emergency clinical environment at least 0.4 FTE.
  • International students will have gained registration as a nurse and a current or temporary license to practiceas a registered nurse in Queensland. They will normally be employed in anemergency clinical environment at least 0.4 FTE.
  • Not available to International students on a Student Visa.
  • When enrolling, please refer to the Study Plan.
Advanced courses (8)

Required courses: (7)
NUR704 Human Associative Learning
NUR705 Abnormal Psychology
NUR706 Psychology of Health and Wellbeing
NUR707 Adult Development and Ageing
NUR721 Education Research an Introduction
NUR722 Second Language Acquisition and Learning
NUR751 Second Language Teaching Methodologies

PLUS select 1 elective course from:
EDU700 Interlanguage Phonology
NUR708 Language, Culture and Second Language Learning
NUR713 The English Language
PUB361 Curriculum Development and Evaluation

Study Plan

This Master of Advanced Nursing Practice (Emergency Care) Study Plan is for students commencing in the current Semester.

Year 1
  • Seven (7) required courses
  • One (1) elective course:
    Elective course should be studied in Semester 1
Required courses: (7)

CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
NUR705 Research Methods in Psychology A
NUR721 Research Methods in Psychology B
NUR751 Creative and Interactive Advertising
NUR704 Physiological Psychology
NUR706 Introduction to Human Development
NUR722 Social Psychology
NUR707 Motivation and Emotion

Elective course: (1)

Select 1 elective course from:

CourseSemester of offerUnitsRequisites
NUR708 Advanced Methods in Psychology
EDU700 Cognitive and Perceptual Psychology
PUB361 Intercultural and Indigenous Psychologies
NUR713 Personality and Assessment

 

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