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Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner)

Course code/s: Melbourne (HMNNP)

This course will only be conducted if sufficient enrolments are achieved.

The Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) is a one-year, full-time or two-year, part-time, 120-credit point award providing students with the detailed knowledge and skills required to provide professional leadership in contemporary clinical nursing specialties. Expert speakers from nursing, pharmacology, radiology, pathology, physiotherapy and other disciplines will contribute to the course. Students must have five years post-registration experience in their specialty, a post graduate nursing qualificaiton and be employed by an appropriate agency.

It is expected that students would complete the core subjects NSG5CPD in the first year and complete their specialty subjects in the second year.

Admission Requirements

Students require a letter of organisational support indicating clinical governance and professional indemnity.

Nurse practitioner, part-time

First year

Teaching period	Subject code	Subject title	Credit Points
TE-SEM-1	NSG5ACP	Advanced Clinical Practice	20
TE-SEM-1	NSG5TMN	Therapeutic Medication Management1	20
TE-SEM-2	NSG5CPD	Clinical Practice Development	20

Key: ^1. Students may be required to enrol in a cross institutional therapeutic medication management subject if sufficient enrolments are not achieved for NSG5TMN.

Second year

Teaching period	Subject code	Subject title	Credit Points
TE-SEM-1	NSG5PCA	Nurse Practitioner Clinical Internship A	30
TE-SEM-2	NSG5PCB	Nurse Practitioner Clinical Internship B	30