Intensive Care Nursing
Master
Overview
About this course
Our course aims to provide nurses with sound theoretical underpinning of clinical practice skills to deliver comprehensive care and advice to critically ill patients and their families, as well as work across complex medical environments that demand rapid, advanced and challenging decision making.
Who is it for?
Our Master of Intensive Care Nursing is designed for registered nurses working in the intensive care environment who are looking to become an expert and advance to clinical leadership roles or build professional practice capabilities.
Structure
What you’ll study
Intensive care nurses deliver complex care to critically ill patients, such as those experiencing single or multiple organ dysfunction due to serious illness or injury.
As a Master of Intensive Care Nursing student, you will learn to work across complex environments that often demand rapid, sophisticated and challenging decisions as you help patients and their families understand their illness and deliver high quality care.
You will be led by leading researchers as you build upon your individual clinical experience. You will learn to provide sophisticated care and advice to critically ill patients and their families.
You will complete:
- 60 credit points (cp), including core units of study (48cp) and
- a capstone (12cp).
In the first year, students complete 48cp of core units of study, which include four specialty-specific units for the intensive care nursing courses.
Students will undertake a work-based project or a research project as a capstone experience (12cp) and will study part-time in the final semester of their candidature.
Following academic consultation, students wishing to undertake the Capstone (Research) may substitute NURS5071 with a research unit offered by the University.
Costs
Tuition
HK$237,298.99
(international)
Funding
Admissions
Qualifications
Admission to this course requires:
- a pre-registration nursing degree from the University of Sydney or equivalent qualification with a credit average; or
- a graduate diploma or graduate certificate in this discipline from the University of Sydney or equivalent qualification.
- you to be a registered nurse in Australia or overseas
Domestic applicants
Domestic applicants are required to have minimum of one year's experience as a registered nurse, be working in intensive care nursing and provide a statement of support from their supervisor or manager in order to undertake the required clinical assessments. Students who already hold a graduate certificate in intensive care nursing are not required to provide a statement of support.
International applicants
International applicants are required to have a minimum of one year's experience in intensive care nursing and have a choice of providing a statement of support from their supervisor if they wish to undertake the required clinical assessments in their home country, or else the clinical assessments can be undertaken at the Sydney Nursing School under simulated conditions.
International qualifications
For qualifications awarded outside Australia, equivalencies and entry requirements are determined based on the country, institution, and qualification.
Language requirements
IELTS
7.0
A minimum result of 7.0 overall and a minimum result of 7.0 in each band
TOEFL
96
A minimum result of 96 overall including a minimum result of 23 in Reading, Listening and Speaking and 25 in Writing
PTE
68
A minimum result of 68 overall and a minimum result of 68 in each band