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University and Faculty:	University of Sydney Faculty of Nursing
Program:	Master of Nursing
University Location:	Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
City Population:	4.6 million
Student Population:	52, 000
Campus Location:	Camperdown Campus, Sydney
Program Duration:	2 years
Semester Intake:	March each year
Next Intake:	$33, 500 AUD (2017)

Sydney Nursing School invites nurses and midwives, and those wanting a career in nursing and midwifery, to study with them at the University of Sydney. The university offers an excellent range of nursing programs which are highly regarded by the nursing profession nationally and internationally. The University of Sydney Nursing School has a reputation for academic excellence, quality teaching and innovative research, ensuring that students gain valuable knowledge and specialist skills which are current, relevant, marketable and responsive to community health care needs now and in the future.

If you hold a previous tertiary qualification in a discipline other than nursing, you're eligible to be considered for admission to the Master of Nursing graduate-entry program. Like the combined degree nursing program, the Master of Nursing provides an introduction to the profession of nursing through both clinical and theoretical components for students who wish to become registered nurses. Course material is presented at a level appropriate to a master's qualification. It is envisaged that as a graduate of the Master of Nursing, you will have obtained the knowledge and skills, along with the personal motivation and general ability, to progress in your clinical, management or educational nursing career.

Goals of the Program

Graduates of the Master of Nursing will have a much stronger basis on which to rely in their professional practice, particularly in relation to those areas of practice that call for and understanding cultural and social differences. They will also be more able to work with semi-scripted and unstructured workplace environments and they will be able to use the research literature in their practice and to identify and resolve problems within the clinical setting.

Study Plan

The Master of Nursing consists of 96 credit points or 16 units of study. All clinical units of study have external clinical placement experiences in a wide variety of health-care settings in both city and rural areas and public and private facilities. You might undertake clinical placements in emergency departments, intensive care units, paediatric units, mental-health faculties and community health centres. Much of these placements are usually done outside the normal semester (including approximately 19 weeks in second year). The majority of clinical placements occur within the Sydney metropolitan area. You may also elect to undertake some clinical placements in rural NSW or interstate.

In the final year of study, you will be placed within a clinical school and undertake units of study and your clinical placements alongside Sydney Medical School medical students. You can choose one of the four new clinical placement options: Paediatric, Mental Health, High Acuity, and Clinical Nursing. For these options you will undertake four weeks of clinical placement in your chosen area. You might like to choose an option in which you may wish to practice when you graduate.

Admissions Criteria/Entry Requirements for Canadians

A successful applicant for admission to the Master of Nursing

• will hold a bachelor degree in a discipline other than nursing; and
• will perform satisfactorily in an interview; and
• will perform satisfactorily on an admissions test.

Applicants who successfully meet the admission criteria will receive a conditional offer and an invitation to undertake an interview and literacy and numeracy tests. Literacy and numeracy tests for international students will be undertaken online and interviews will be held via Skype.

Interview

Interviews are used as a valuable screening tool to enable Sydney Nursing School to offer places to applicants who not only present well on paper but who can also demonstrate they have the required level of communication skills, motivation, attitude and insight necessary to succeed in nursing.

Interviews are used to evaluate an applicant based on the following:

• interpersonal and communication skills
• intelligence and cognitive ability
• team work
• decision-making ability
• respect for diversity
• a sense of caring, empathy and sensitivity
• motivation and commitment within the context of nursing

Admissions interviews are conducted on a group basis with up to eight applicants and will be facilitated by two academic staff members. It is envisaged that this process will take approximately 45 minutes, including 30 minutes for the group task and 15 minutes for reflection.