{ "availability": true, "data": { "awardTitle": "Master of Nurse Practitioner", "advertisedTitle": "Master of Nurse Practitioner", "totalCreditPoints": 120, "offerYear": 2026, "studentType": "Domestic", "locationDisplayName": "Online", "deliveryModeCode": "OP", "deliveryModeDescription": "Online plus placement/intensive", "cricosCourseCode": "", "isFlexibleLocation": false, "majors": [], "specialisations": [], "virtualRollover": { "enabled": false, "instance": false, "indicativeFees": false, "startDates": false }, "relatedCourses": { "nestedCourses": null }, "startDates": "Semester 1 (March 2026), Semester 2 (July 2026)", "duration": "2 years part-time", "prerequisite": "", "courseDescription": "<p>This course aims to give students the in-depth knowledge and skills required to practice at an advanced nursing level and to provide professional leadership in contemporary clinical and professional nursing specialties. It is designed to build on the knowledge base and clinical skills of specialist nurses.<\/p><p>The role of nurse practitioner places particular emphasis on the development of advanced clinical assessment skills relevant to the nurse&#39;s specialty, and development of a collaborative multidisciplinary approach to patient care. The program focuses on this using the Nurse and Midwifery Board of Australia&#39;s Nurse Practitioner competencies.<\/p><p class=\"footnote\">The qualification awarded on graduation is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) as Level 9 - Masters Degree.<\/p>", "entryReq": { "rse": { "isEligible": true, "ineligibleMsg": "", "admCriAtarStmt": "", "prerequisite": "", "admCriInAddToAtar": "", "selRankAdj": "", "otherAdmOpts": "" }, "higherEd": { "isEligible": true, "ineligibleMsg": "", "prerequisite": "", "admCri": "" }, "vet": { "isEligible": true, "ineligibleMsg": "", "prerequisite": "", "admCri": "" }, "wle": { "isEligible": true, "ineligibleMsg": "", "prerequisite": "", "admCri": "" }, "prerequisite": "<p>Confirmation of Australian work-based clinical placement support to undertake 300 hours of supernumerary, supervised Integrated Professional Practice (IPP) during the clinical internship (year 2 of study). Complete and upload this form to your application: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.latrobe.edu.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0005\/1642433\/LTU_MNP_Confirmation-of-work-based-clinical-placement-support.pdf\">https:\/\/www.latrobe.edu.au\/__data\/assets\/pdf_file\/0005\/1642433\/LTU_MNP_Confirmation-of-work-based-clinical-placement-support.pdf<\/a><\/p><p>Current and enduring employment in an area of specialty nursing practice (minimum 0.5 FTE) while studying.<\/p><p>At least five years of full-time equivalent (FTE) registered nursing experience in a specific clinical field, with at least two years of FTE (approximately 3600 hours) advanced nursing practice in the clinical field relevant to your postgraduate study. All experience must be within the last 6 years.<\/p><p>Current Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) registration as a registered nurse with no conditions or undertakings.<\/p><p>Postgraduate Diploma in a clinical nursing specialty (relevant to the specialty of your advanced practice experience) or higher (eg: Masters\/PhD).<\/p>", "academicEntReq": "<ul><li><p>Evidence of appropriate clinical supervision (Supervision Team).<\/p><\/li><li><p>Demonstrated competence across Advanced Practice Nurse (APN) practice domains (leadership, education, research, health systems support) using the <a href=\"https:\/\/eprints.qut.edu.au\/105518\/1\/The%20Aust%20APN%20Self-Appraisal%20toolkit.pdf\">ADVANCE self-appraisal tool<\/a><\/p><\/li><\/ul>", "essentialRequirementsInherent": "<div class=\"ds-block\"><div class=\"ds-accordion\"> <h4> <button id=\"check-core-participation-req-0\" class=\"ds-accordion__trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"core-participation-req-0\"> <span class=\"ds-accordion__title\">Behavioural and relational skills<\/span> <\/button> <\/h4> <div id=\"core-participation-req-0\" class=\"ds-accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"check-core-participation-req-0\"><p><em><strong>Core requirement<\/strong><\/em><br \/><br \/>Students must be able to manage their own responses and behaviour to work effectively in a range of learning environments with diverse people and tasks. This includes the capacity to be receptive and respond appropriately to constructive feedback. Students should also be able to work with others in a team or group environment and make and maintain effective relationships with a wide range of individuals in order to complete tasks or for professional practice.<br \/><br \/>See also <a href=\"https:\/\/policies.latrobe.edu.au\/document\/view.php?id=60\">Student behaviours policy<\/a> for more information.<br \/><br \/><em><strong>Course-specific requirement<\/strong><\/em><br \/><br \/>Nursing and midwifery students must demonstrate knowledge and engage in ethical behaviour in practice (academically and clinically) to facilitate safe, competent interactions and relationships with people to ensure their own and others' physical, psychological, emotional and spiritual wellbeing is not placed at risk.<\/p><p>Nursing and midwifery students must be able to demonstrate behavioural stability by functioning and adapting effectively and sensitively in a diverse and changing academic and clinical environment.<\/p><p>Nursing and midwifery students must demonstrate knowledge and compliance with Australian law, professional regulations and scope of practice to enable the safe delivery of care. Nursing and midwifery students must be responsible and accountable for their practice to reduce the risk of harm to themselves and others.<\/p><p>Nursing and midwifery practice require effective verbal, non-verbal and written communication skills for the safe delivery of care. Nursing and midwifery students are required to have effective and efficient verbal communication in English. Nursing and midwifery students also need to be respectful, clear, attentive, empathetic, honest and non-judgmental; and have effective written communication skills \u2013 a fundamental nursing and midwifery responsibility with professional and legal ramifications.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ds-accordion\"> <h4> <button id=\"check-core-participation-req-1\" class=\"ds-accordion__trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"core-participation-req-1\"> <span class=\"ds-accordion__title\">Cognition<\/span> <\/button> <\/h4> <div id=\"core-participation-req-1\" class=\"ds-accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"check-core-participation-req-1\"><p><em><strong>Core requirement<\/strong><\/em><br \/><br \/>Students must be able to locate, acquire, retain and apply knowledge as part of their learning and for assessment. They must have the ability to sustain their attention over a designated period, maintain their focus in a variety of learning environments and remember information long enough to complete tasks in a reasonable and safe timeframe.<br \/><br \/><em><strong>Course-specific requirement<\/strong><\/em><br \/><br \/>Nursing and Midwifery students must be able to use retained knowledge to determine safe and appropriate care decisions. They must be able to notice, focus their attention and process information in order to respond effectively to critical changes in instructions, measurements or observable behaviour. For example, they must be able to focus on and respond to changing visual information in answering questions about appropriate courses of action in distracting environments.<\/p><p>Nursing and midwifery practice require comprehensive theoretical knowledge. Nursing and midwifery students must demonstrate consistent and effective knowledge and cognitive skills to provide safe and competent nursing and midwifery care.<\/p><p>Competent literacy skills are essential for safe and effective delivery of nursing and midwifery care. Nursing and midwifery students must have the ability to accurately acquire information and accurately convey appropriate effective messages; to read and comprehend a range of literature and information; and the capacity to understand and implement academic conventions to construct written text in a scholarly manner.<\/p><p>Competent and accurate numeracy skills are essential for safe and effective nursing and midwifery care. Nursing and midwifery students must demonstrate the ability to interpret and correctly apply data, measurements and numerical criteria.<\/p><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ds-accordion\"> <h4> <button id=\"check-core-participation-req-2\" class=\"ds-accordion__trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"core-participation-req-2\"> <span class=\"ds-accordion__title\">Sensory (visual, auditory, tactile, olfaction)<\/span> <\/button> <\/h4> <div id=\"core-participation-req-2\" class=\"ds-accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"check-core-participation-req-2\"><p><em><strong>Core requirement<\/strong><\/em><br \/><br \/>Students should possess the ability to interact with visual, auditory or tactile inputs sufficiently to manage their learning environment and to meet professional performance needs.<br \/><br \/><em><strong>Course-specific requirement<\/strong><\/em><br \/><br \/>Nursing students must be able to observe visual inputs, including patient symptoms, which will allow them to manage patient care and continually develop their nursing practice during placements and throughout their career.<\/p><p>Adequate visual, auditory, tactile acuity is required to provide safe and effective nursing and midwifery care. Nursing and midwifery students must demonstrate the following:<\/p><ul><li>adequate visual acuity to perform the required range of skills, tasks and assessments to maintain consistent, accurate and safe care to self and others<\/li><li>adequate auditory ability to monitor, assess and manage individuals' health needs consistently and accurately<\/li><li>adequate tactile ability to monitor, assess and detect patients' physical characteristics and act on any abnormalities detected to provide thorough nursing and midwifery care.<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>", "engReq": "", "hasEngReqAlt": true }, "vtacCodes": null, "courseStructure": "<section id=\"course-structure\" class=\"sublayout-1\"><div class=\"ds-block\"> <p><b>To qualify for the award of Master of Nurse Practitioner, students must complete a total of 120 credit points across 2 years.<\/b><\/p><\/div><div class=\"ds-block ds-block--full-width course-structure-content\"><div class=\"ds-tabs\"><div class=\"ds-tabs-nav ds-block\" role=\"tablist\"><button class=\"ds-tabs-nav__tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"true\" aria-controls=\"tab1\" id=\"tab1trigger\" >Year 1<\/button><button class=\"ds-tabs-nav__tab\" role=\"tab\" aria-selected=\"false\" aria-controls=\"tab2\" id=\"tab2trigger\" >Year 2<\/button><\/div><div class=\"ds-content-chunk\" data-bg-color=\"lightest\"><div id=\"tab1\" class=\"ds-block ds-tab-content__body\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab1trigger\"> <p class=\"lead\"> Year 1 requires the completion of <b><a class=\"pls-explain\" title=\"A credit point is a unit of measurement to indicate the relative study load of subjects, courses, majors, minors, specialisations and other academic items.<br><br>For example, to be eligible for the award of a standard Bachelor's degree, a student must complete 360 credit points.\">60 credit points<\/a><\/b> including:<\/p> <ul> <li><b>60 credit points<\/b> from Core<\/li><\/ul><\/div><div id=\"tab2\" class=\"ds-block ds-tab-content__body\" role=\"tabpanel\" aria-labelledby=\"tab2trigger\" hidden=\"hidden\"> <p class=\"lead\"> Year 2 requires the completion of <b><a class=\"pls-explain\" title=\"A credit point is a unit of measurement to indicate the relative study load of subjects, courses, majors, minors, specialisations and other academic items.<br><br>For example, to be eligible for the award of a standard Bachelor's degree, a student must complete 360 credit points.\">60 credit points<\/a><\/b> including:<\/p> <ul> <li><b>60 credit points<\/b> from Core<\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ds-block\"><h4>Study options<\/h4><\/div><div class=\"ds-block\"><div class=\"ds-accordion\"> <h5> <button id=\"check-course-struct-1\" class=\"ds-accordion__trigger\" aria-expanded=\"false\" aria-controls=\"course-struct-1\"> <span class=\"ds-accordion__title\"> Core subjects <\/span> <\/button> <\/h5> <div id=\"course-struct-1\" class=\"ds-accordion__content\" role=\"region\" aria-labelledby=\"check-course-struct-1\"> <div class=\"ds-table-wrapper\"> <p> Core subjects are required subjects in your course. You need to complete these subjects to attain your degree. <\/p> <table class=\"ds-table--striped\"> <thead> <tr> <th> Subject name<\/th> <th> Subject code<\/th> <th> Year<\/th> <th> Credit points<\/th> <\/tr> <\/thead> <tbody><tr> <td><a href=\"https:\/\/handbook.latrobe.edu.au\/subjects\/2026\/LTU0AIM\" target=\"_blank\">ACADEMIC INTEGRITY MODULE<\/a><\/td> <td> LTU0AIM<\/td> <td> 1<\/td> <td> 0<\/td><\/tr><tr> <td><a href=\"https:\/\/handbook.latrobe.edu.au\/subjects\/2026\/NSM5ACE\" target=\"_blank\">ADVANCED CLINICAL EVIDENCE FOR NURSING PRACTICE<\/a><\/td> <td> NSM5ACE<\/td> <td> 1<\/td> <td> 15<\/td><\/tr><tr> <td><a href=\"https:\/\/handbook.latrobe.edu.au\/subjects\/2026\/NSM5ACN\" target=\"_blank\">ADVANCED CLINICAL NURSING PRACTICE<\/a><\/td> <td> NSM5ACN<\/td> <td> 1<\/td> <td> 15<\/td><\/tr><tr> <td><a href=\"https:\/\/handbook.latrobe.edu.au\/subjects\/2026\/NSM5TMA\" target=\"_blank\">THERAPEUTIC MEDICATION MANAGEMENT A<\/a><\/td> <td> NSM5TMA<\/td> <td> 1<\/td> <td> 15<\/td><\/tr><tr> <td><a href=\"https:\/\/handbook.latrobe.edu.au\/subjects\/2026\/NSM5TMB\" target=\"_blank\">THERAPEUTIC MEDICATION MANAGEMENT B<\/a><\/td> <td> NSM5TMB<\/td> <td> 1<\/td> <td> 15<\/td><\/tr><tr> <td><a href=\"https:\/\/handbook.latrobe.edu.au\/subjects\/2026\/NSM5CIA\" target=\"_blank\">CLINICAL INTERNSHIP FOR NURSE PRACTITIONER A<\/a><\/td> <td> NSM5CIA<\/td> <td> 2<\/td> <td> 30<\/td><\/tr><tr> <td><a href=\"https:\/\/handbook.latrobe.edu.au\/subjects\/2026\/NSM5CIB\" target=\"_blank\">CLINICAL INTERNSHIP FOR NURSE PRACTITIONER B<\/a><\/td> <td> NSM5CIB<\/td> <td> 2<\/td> <td> 30<\/td><\/tr> <\/tbody><\/table><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>", "workBasedLearning": "<p><strong><em>Compulsory placements (Work Based Learning)<\/em><\/strong><\/p><p>During this course, you will participate in supervised Work Based Learning (WBL) placements designed to allow you to practice newly acquired skills, behaviours and knowledge while integrating theory with practice. The placements will immerse you in professional work culture, enabling you to develop and further enhance your skills. WBL provides you with the opportunity to gain valuable industry experience within your employing agency. The number of hours undertaken are as per the requirements of this course. Please refer to the individual subject entries for more information.<\/p>", "handbookLinkHtml": "<a href=\"https:\/\/handbook.latrobe.edu.au\/courses\/2026\/HM021O\" target='_blank'>Online<\/a>", "intendedLearningOutcomes": "<ul><li>Critically reflect on professional practice to generate and evaluate models of care for complex cases using research-based evidence and innovative practices.<\/li><li>Demonstrate mastery of advanced holistic health assessment and diagnostics interpretation to generate diagnoses utilising contemporary digital tools and informatics.<\/li><li>Analyse and synthesize advanced knowledge of medications, regulatory and legislative requirements and research evidence to prescribe therapeutic interventions and appropriate referral pathways.<\/li><li>Mastery of research skills to evaluate the socio-economic, geographical and political factors that construct and maintain nurse practitioner service models to advocate effectively for service improvement and clinically effective outcomes.<\/li><li>Demonstrate a person-centered care approach in the communication, assessment, management and evaluation of evidence-based patient care.<\/li><\/ul>", "careerOpportunities": "", "professionalRecognition": "<p>The Master of Nurse Practitioner is accredited by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC). Graduates of the Master of Nurse Practitioner may be eligible for endorsement with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). Professional registration may be subject to additional or ongoing requirements beyond completion of the degree. Please contact the relevant professional body for details.<\/p>", "fees": { "overview": "$30,600 per 120 credit points. <br>Note: 120 credit points represents full-time study for one year. <br>Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP) may be available.<BR> Indicative CSP price $4,738 per 120 credit points.", "showFeeLegislationMsg": false, "amountDescription": "$30,600 per 120 credit points. <br>Note: 120 credit points represents full-time study for one year. <br>Commonwealth Supported Places (CSP) may be available.<BR> Indicative CSP price $4,738 per 120 credit points.", "essentialRequirementsSelection": "", "eligibleForCspLoan": false, "eligibleForErpLoan": false } }, "content": { "atarDistributionReport": null }, "softContent": { "contactCta": { "primaryCta": { "link": "https:\/\/apply.latrobe.edu.au\/content\/forms\/af\/direct-applications\/home.html", "text": "Apply now" }, "secondaryCta": { "link": "#contact-us", "text": "Contact us" }, "overwriteHeadline": "<h2>Step into the next phase of your career<\/h2>\r\n<h3 style=\"color: black;\">Applications now open<\/h3>\r\n<ul><li>Flexible online study with 300 hours of supervised placement with your employer.<\/li><li>Develop professional leadership, person-centred care and advanced clinical assessment skills relevant to your nursing specialty.<\/li><li>Learn advanced therapeutic medication management and multidisciplinary patient care in clinical and professional nursing specialties.<\/li><li>Master advanced holistic health assessment and diagnostics interpretation to generate diagnoses with contemporary digital tools and informatics.<\/li><\/ul>\r\n", "headline": "<p class=\"h2\">Applications now open<\/p>", "subheadline": "<p>There's never been a better time to build new skills and follow your passion.<\/p>", "contactCallBtn": { "show": true, "link": "tel:1300135045", "text": "Call 1300 135 045" }, "contactConsultBtn": { "show": true, "link": "https:\/\/consultation.latrobe.edu.au", "text": "Book a 1:1 consultation" }, "contactChatBtn": { "show": true, "link": "https://www.latrobe.edu.au/contact/chat", "text": "Live chat" }, "contactAskBtn": { "show": true, "link": "https://www.latrobe.edu.au/contact/question", "text": "Ask a question" }, "howToApplyVtacStatusText": "Apply through VTAC", "howToApplyUacStatusText": "Apply through UAC" }, "atarPeriod": "based on the January 2026 ATAR profile", "feeAdditionalDescription": "" } }