Master of Nursing (Rural & Remote)
PostgraduateUSQ-NRR-MAS2025
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Advance your nursing knowledge to care for country communities
Provide quality nursing to patients isolated by distance. You’ll explore rural clients' special needs during emergencies and everyday healthcare. Expand your practice to include administering and supplying medicines in Qld and Vic.
- 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 (Rural & Remote)
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 judgment 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.
- Advance your nursing skills in the area of rural, remote and isolated practice. Become a remote area nurse with the expertise required to adapt your practice to the social, cultural and geographic challenges in an isolated health care setting. Build your knowledge of the political contexts, legal implications, and the importance of cultural safety while proving advanced nursing care to rural and remote clients. Gain the necessary rural and remote nursing training to enhance your clinical decision making for patients who are acutely ill or in an emergency care setting.
Recommended study pattern
Year 1
HEA6001 Contexts of Practice
ANP5001 Introduction to Rural and Remote Nursing Practice
ANP5003 Emergency Nursing in Isolated Practice
NUR6340 The Law and Health Care Practice or HEA6302 Culture as Determinant of Health
Year 2
HSC6050 Research Methodology for Human Sciences
ANP6008 Diagnostics and Assessment
ANP6009 Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacology for Scheduled Medicines
ANP610 Situational Practice: clinical and critical decision making skills
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.Choose your subjects
Electives
Approved Course List
HEA8101 Foundations of Gerontology Practice
HEA8102 Perspectives of Healthy Ageing
HEA8104 Alzheimers and Dementia: Contemporary Perspectives
HEA8201 Introduction to Clinical Education
HEA8105 Perspectives on `End-of-Life'
HEA8302 Culture as a Determinant of Health
ANP8003 Management in Health Care Practice
ANP8011 Clinical Leadership in Contemporary Health Care Practice
HEA8201 Introduction to Clinical Education
HEA8202 Innovative Learning Strategies for Healthcare Environment
NUR8550 Professional Studies 1
COU8103 Counselling Issues and Contexts
COU8101 Counselling Skills and Applications
COU8104 Counselling Frameworks
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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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. Provide written confirmation from your manager stating that you are currently employed as a Registered Nurse and can complete the required hours of clinical mentorship in your workplace. 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 (Rural & Remote) 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
Professional experience
To enhance students’ hands-on skills, this specialisation requires some supervised clinical practice in an Authorised Immunisation Clinic.
- 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 |
|---|---|---|
Nurse Educators and Researchers | $93K to $120K | Up 10.8% |
Nurse Managers | Over $120K | Up 19.9% |
Registered Nurses | $93K to $120K | Up 16.3% |