Postgraduate - CourseMaster of Advanced Nursing (Nurse Practitioner)

The role of nurse practitioner (NP) is important and growing throughout Australia. The nurse practitioner has an advanced role that includes health assessment and management and may include, but is not limited to, the direct referral of patients to other health care professionals, prescribing medications and ordering diagnostic investigations. NPs work autonomously in advanced and extended clinical practice roles in hospitals and community settings in collaboration with other members of the health care team.

This course is intended for registered nurses working in advanced practice roles intending to seek endorsement as nurse practitioners with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

These course outcomes are aligned with the Australian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate AttributesAustralian Qualifications Framework level 9, the Bologna Cycle 2 and Monash Graduate Attributes (http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/alignmentofoutcomes.html).

On completion of this course students will be expected to be able to:

• demonstrate achievement of the advanced knowledge, skills and attitudes required of a nurse practitioner
• demonstrate high level interpersonal, problem solving and clinical decision making in professional practice
• provide holistic, person-centred advanced nursing care in specific health care settings
• utilise research to enhance health outcomes and evaluate nursing interventions
• plan, deliver and evaluate health programs and services
• analyse ethical, legal and political aspects of the nurse practitioner role
• develop advanced skills in medication management, health assessment and diagnosis
• demonstrate achievement of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council Competency Standards for the nurse practitioner.

This course consists of six units comprising five 12-point core units, and 12 points of elective units from an approved list of units offered within the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences. Students are required to be employed in an advanced practice role for the duration of the course, with support for supervised extended clinical practice. (Note: A minimum of three years EFT advanced practice experience is required for endorsement as a nurse practitioner)

First year

• GHS5841 Research and evidence for practice
• NUR5411 Advanced clinical assessment and diagnostic reasoning

Second year

• NUR5208 Therapeutic medication management
• NUR5218 Advanced clinical decision making

Third year

• NUR5219 Advanced clinical practice for nurse practitioner
• 12 points of elective units from the list below

Electives

All units are 12 points unless otherwise indicated.

• MCM5417 Medical ethics (6 points)
• MCM5419 Ophthalmology (6 points)
• MCM5504 Dermatology
• MCM5507 Child health
• MCM5602 Mindfulness-based stress management (6 points)
• MCM5606 Issues in general practice prescribing (6 points)
• NUR5202 Nursing informatics
• NUR5204 Education in health care practice
• NUR5833 Refugee health and wellbeing
• SRH5016 Interprofessional rural health practice (6 points)

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Master of Advanced Nursing (Nurse Practitioner)