Master of Nursing (Leadership & Management in Health)
PostgraduateUSQ-NLM-MAS2025
Course information for 2025 intake View information for 2024 course intake
Strive for leadership and managerial roles in healthcare
Learn to lead people and manage health care organisations. You’ll study contemporary clinical leadership theory and build your own leadership traits. Explore legal and ethical considerations. Develop staff, build teams, and become an agent of change.
- Study method
- Online & on-campus
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Credit available
- Yes
- Duration
- Approx. 1.5 years full time or part time equivalent
- Total subjects
- 12
- Available loans
- Australian Higher Education Loan Program (HELP)
- CSP available
- Yes
Master of Nursing (Leadership & Management in Health)
About this degree
Upon completion of this program, graduates will be able to:
- Display an advanced body of seminal, conceptual, and data-based knowledge in nursing.
- Communicate an advanced knowledge of research principles and methods applicable to health and nursing.
- Review conceptual and data-based literature using cognitive and technical skills to critique, evaluate, and identify best evidence to improve individual, community, and population health outcomes.
- Apply evidence-based decision-making to clinical, policy, education, and/or practice situations.
- Lead people and projects in diverse situations with a high degree of creativity, autonomy, and accountability, demonstrating appropriate judgement and responsibility as an expert practitioner.
- Communicate at a high level in interpersonal, inter-professional, and intercultural situations with people of diverse ages, backgrounds, and needs.
- Employ advanced skills in competent, caring, and professional nursing practice.
- Gain the competitive edge by exploring contemporary issues related to theoretical and practical leadership concepts regarding nursing in health care organisations. Build expert knowledge with this nursing management degree and gain an understanding of the legal, ethical and social justice approaches to clinical leadership in health care settings. Understand how to strategically approach performance management and people development to build and foster productive and cohesive teams. Become a manager and strong leader who understands the complex interactions of the behaviour of people at work by analysing the behaviour at the individual, group and organisational level.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
HEA6001 Contexts of Practice
HEA6101 Foundations of Gerontology Practice
HEA6102 Perspectives of Healthy Ageing
NUR6340 The Law and Health Care Practice or HEA6302 Culture as Determinant of Health
Year 2
HSC6050 Research Methodology for Human Sciences
HEA6105 Perspectives on ‘End-of-Life’
HEA6104 Alzheimer's and Dementia: Contemporary Practices
1 x Elective
Year 3
HSC6060 Research Project Design
NUR6060 Health Policy Analysis and Review
HSC6070 Health Masters Project A or NUR6075 Research Implementation Project
HESC6080 Health Masters Project B or 1 x Elective
Award requirements
Completion of 12 units as outlined in the Recommended Study Pattern section.Exit points
Graduate Certificate of Nursing.
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Indicative first year fee
$8,948
Indicative total fee $13,422
The amounts shown here are indicative for an Australian citizen studying full-time, which is typically 8 subjects per year.
Fees may vary depending on:
- the subjects you choose
- credit from previous work experience
- your eligibility for government funding loans or subsidies such as HECS-HELP or a Commonwealth supported place.
To learn more, go to Fees or contact a student advisor.
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- Times Higher Education Ranking 2024:
- 24
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Entry requirements
- Completed a 3-year bachelor degree in the area of nursing from an Australian university, or equivalent. Hold a current Professional Registration as a Division 1 nurse, or equivalent, with either Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) or relevant regulatory body in applicant's home country. Proof of meeting the English Language Proficiency requirements is also required.
All students are required to satisfy the applicable English language requirements. For entry to the Master of Nursing (Leadership & Management in Health) program, applicants are required to meet the Category 4 English Language Proficiency requirements.
- Exemptions/credit will be assessed based on the UniSQ Credit and Exemption Procedure. Claims for credit for previous study should be submitted prior to or at the time of enrolment. Each claim will be assessed on individual merit in line with UniSQ policy.
Study method requirements
- May include the requirement Residential School to complete practical components of some courses depending on whether the Clinical or Research enrolment stream is chose.
Career opportunities
Australian job snapshots
Data sourced from Australian Jobs 2023.
Role | Earnings | Employment change |
|---|---|---|
Health and Welfare Services Managers | Over $120K | Up 56.6% |
Medical Administrators | Over $120K | Up 0.01% |
Nurse Managers | Over $120K | Up 19.9% |
Policy and Planning Managers | Over $120K | Up 53.8% |
Practice Managers | $75K to $93K | Up 18.7% |
Primary Health Organisation Managers | N/A^ | N/A^ |
Tribunal Members | N/A^ | N/A^ |
^ There is no data available