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Nursing (Pre-Registration)

Full-time unit of study table

In this course teaching and learning takes place in accordance with the University’s approved semesters and teaching blocks, and as set out in the Sydney Nursing School Academic Calendar, approved by Academic Board.

Master of Nursing

Students must complete:
(a) 96 credit points of core units of study set out in the table below; and
(b) clinical experience as prescribed.
Students are required to attend either Camperdown campus or the Westmead campus for the duration of their degree.

 

Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites
C: Corequisites N: Prohibition

Year 1 Core units of study

NURS5002
Social Contexts of Health
6  
NURS5042
The Body, Its Function and Pharmacology
6  
NURS5081
Introduction to Nursing Practice
6  
NURS5082
Developing Nursing Practice
6 C NURS5081
NURS5006
Illness Experience and Nursing Care
6 P NURS5081
NURS5043
Understand Health and Managing Disease
6 P NURS5042
NURS5084
Nursing the Acutely Ill Person
6 P NURS5082 and NURS5081
NURS5085
Mental Health Nursing Practice
6 C NURS5084

Year 2 Core units of study

NURS6018
Care and Chronic Conditions
6 P NURS5084 and NURS5085 and NURS5043
NURS6019
High Acuity Nursing
6 P NURS5084 and NURS5043
NURS6031
Frameworks for Practice (MN)
6 P NURS5081 and NURS5082
NURS6033
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health
6 P NURS5002
NURS6022
Community Health Nursing
6 P NURS6018 and NURS6019
NURS6029
Australian Health Care - Global Context
6  
NURS6030
Evidence Based Practice
6 P NURS5002 and NURS5006
NURS6032
Transition to Practice (MN)
6 P NURS5085 and NURS6018 and NURS6019