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If you are someone with empathy, good communication skills and a desire to help people and achieve good outcomes, Nursing is the ideal career for you.

Nursing has changed over the years. In today's world nursing has become a critical patient-focused health science career that requires a sophisticated mix of expertise, knowledge, skills and nursing judgement.
Modern healthcare is now focused on integrated care, where teams of health professionals work together to provide the best treatment possible for their patient so it is important that tomorrow's nurses are able to work within that environment.

Nursing offers variety and also good career progression. If you are wanting to begin a career in nursing, you must first complete your undergraduate study.
Once you have completed your that study, there are opportunities to advance your career through further postgraduate study.

With an ageing and increasing population in New Zealand, there is a rising demand for trained nurses, particularly in primary care, aged care and mental health settings.

Knowledge and Skills

The focus for postgraduate nursing study is the enhancement of clinical nursing practice, leadership qualities, and development of advanced practice through education.
Postgraduate study is about investigating, analysing, critically evaluating, reflecting and responding to the challenges posed by practice and the academic environment.
Programme structures are flexible and provide opportunities for nurses to design programmes of study that are appropriate for the learning goals they wish to achieve and that are relevant to their practice areas.

Potential Careers

Nursing offers exciting opportunities for career advancement in a wide variety of clinical contexts..
Potential careers include advanced nursing practice, community, gerontology, paediatric, hospital, or primary healthcare, mental health, or nursing education, management or research.
- Jobs related to Nursing
- Clinical Nurse Specialist
- Nurse Educator
- Nurse Practitioner
- Nurse Researcher
- Occupational Health Nurse

Schedule

Plan Schedules

Complete 240 points comprising:

  • 120 points from Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences Schedule, and
  • One of the following:
  • 120 points for all Thesis Option, or
  • 120 points for all 120 points Research Portfolio Option, or
  • 120 points for 90 points Research Portfolio + 30 Points from Elective Courses Option

Postgraduate Diploma in Health Sciences Schedule

Complete exactly 120 points from the following:

Thesis Option

Complete 120 points for ALL of the following:

120 points Research Portfolio Option

Complete 120 points for ALL of the following:

90 points Research Portfolio + 30 Points from Elective Courses Option

Complete 120 points comprising:

  • 30 points from Elective Courses, and
  • 90 points for all Research Portfolio

Elective Courses

Complete exactly 30 points from the following:

Research Portfolio

Complete 90 points for ALL of the following:

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