Australian Nursing Schools in Australia

University of Sydney Nursing School

Program Overview - Master of Nursing

University and Faculty:	University of Sydney Faculty of Nursing
Program:	Master of Nursing
University Location:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
City Population:	4.5 million
Student Population:	47,200
Campus Location:	Camperdown Campus, Sydney
Program Duration:	Two years
Semester Intake:	March each year
Next Intake:	March 2013
Est. Annual Tuition:	$25,680 AUD (2012)

Sydney Nursing School invites nurses and midwives, and those wanting a career in nursing and midwifery, to study with them at the University of Sydney. The university offers an excellent range of nursing programs which are highly regarded by the nursing profession nationally and internationally. The University of Sydney Nursing School has a reputation for academic excellence, quality teaching and innovative research, ensuring that students gain valuable knowledge and specialist skills which are current, relevant, marketable and responsive to community health care needs now and in the future. If you hold a previous tertiary qualification in a discipline other than nursing, you're eligible to be considered for admission to the Master of Nursing graduate-entry program. Like the combined degree nursing program, the Master of Nursing provides an introduction to the profession of nursing through both clinical and theoretical components for students who wish to become registerd nurses. Course material is presented at a level appropriate to a master's qualification. It is envisaged that as a graduate of the Master of Nursing, you will have obtained the knowledge and skills, along with the personal motivation and general ability, to progress in your clinical, management or educational nursing career.

Goals of the Program

Graduates of the Master of Nursing will have a much stronger basis on which to rely in their professional practice, particularly in relation to those areas of practice that call for and understanding cultural and social differences. They will also be more able to work with semi-scripted and unstructured workplace environments and they will be able to use the research literature in their practice and to identify and resolve problems within the clinical setting.

Study Plan

The Master of Nursing consists of 96 credit points or 16 units of study. All clinical units of study have external clinical placement experiences in a wide variety of health-care settings in both city and rural areas and public and private facilities. You might undertake clinical placements in emergency departments, intensive care units, paediatric units, mental-health faculties and community health centres. Much of these placements are usually done outside the normal semester (including approximately 19 weeks in second year). The majority of clinical placements occur within the Sydney metropolitan area. You may also elect to undertake some clinical placements in rural NSW or interstate. In the final year of study, you will be placed within a clinical school and undertake units of study and your clinical placements alongside Sydney Medical School medical students. You can choose one of the four new clinical placement options: Paediatric, Mental Health, High Acuity, and Clinical Nursing. For these options you will undertake four weeks of clinical placement in your chosen area. You might like to choose an option in which you may wish to practice when you graduate.

Admissions Criteria/Entry Requirements for Canadians

A successful applicant for admission to the Master of Nursing will hold

- a bachelor degree in a discipline other than nursing from the University of Sydney or equivalent qualification; or

- a Diploma of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health, or equivalent qualification, and relevant work experience.

This course is not available to applicants who are registered to practice as a nurse in an Australian state or territory. Qualifications used as the basis of admission must have been completed less than 10 years prior to application. Qualifications older than 10 years will be considered at the discretion of the dean. In addition to these requirements, this course requires applicants to have the ability to undertake clinical placements. The school's Clinical Policy contains further details of the requirements.

Professional Certification/Accreditation Information

Graduates from the University of Sydney Nursing School are accredited by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Graduates from Canada, who wish to practice as a registered nurse upon their return to Canada, should be aware of the certification process for foreign-trained nurses in their province of residence. For information on Canadian certification processes for foreign-trained registered nurses, please visit
http://www.cicic.ca/en/professions.aspx?sortcode=2.19.21&prof=3152

Scholarships

Every student who applies (and accepts) via OzTREKK and commences his/her studies at an OzTREKK Australian university will receive a $500 scholarship from OzTREKK. Click here for more information about the OzTREKK Scholarship!

Total Number of Places in the Program: tbc

Total Number of International Places: tbc

Application Deadline for the March 2013 intake: Oct. 31, 2012.

OzTREKK Admissions Officer: Christine Chu