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Subject Overview

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 120 points for either of the following:

  • 120 points for Dissertation Option, or
  • 120 points for Research Project Option

Dissertation Option

Complete 120 points comprising:

  • 60 points from Elective Courses, and
  • Either:
  • 60 points for all Dissertation - 1 Semester, or
  • 60 points for all Dissertation - 2 Semesters

Elective Courses

Complete exactly 60 points from the following:

Dissertation - 1 Semester

Complete 60 points for ALL of the following:

Dissertation - 2 Semesters

Complete 60 points for ALL of the following:

Research Project Option

Complete 120 points comprising:

  • 30 points from Group 1 Elective Courses, and
  • 60 points from Group 2 Elective Courses, and
  • One of the following:
  • 30 points for all Nursing Research Project, or
  • 30 points for all Health Sciences Research Project - 1 Semester, or
  • 30 points for all Health Sciences Research Project - 2 Semesters

Group 1 Elective Courses

Complete exactly 30 points from the following:

Group 2 Elective Courses

Complete exactly 60 points from the following:

Nursing Research Project

Complete 30 points for ALL of the following:

Health Sciences Research Project - 1 Semester

Complete 30 points for ALL of the following:

Health Sciences Research Project - 2 Semesters

Complete 30 points for ALL of the following:

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