Master of Nursing (Primary Health Care)

Boost your career, develop life-changing skills and provide specialised care to patients with a range of complex health issues. Boost your career, develop life-changing skills and provide specialised care to patients with a range of complex health issues. Graduates of all our postgraduate programs thrive in a wide range of settings and provide skilful care to individuals, families and communities. Take on leadership and specialised care roles in a variety of areas, including diabetes management and education, mental health nursing, emergency nursing and nurse practitioner roles. Or, begin your path in research with the Master of Nursing which you can complete in as little as 1.5 years.

Our postgraduate degrees are built to be as flexible as possible and work with your lifestyle with options for part-time or full-time and some courses that can be completed in as little as six months. Be fearless with a degree in postgraduate nursing. Postgraduate studies for midwives are available through the following HDR pathways - Master of Science, Master of Health & Clinical Research and PhD. Through these courses, topics pertinent and important to midwives and reproductive health and childbirth can be explored. Students will work with experienced midwifery staff to develop their supervised research project. Current midwifery postgraduate students are local, national, and international covering varied clinical challenges, workforce issues, education and research dissemination utilising both qualitative and quantitative methodologies.

The equivalent of a three-year Australian bachelors degree.
Some degrees may require work experience to meet the entry requirements.
A reference or statement from the employer will be required.

English language requirements

IELTS (Academic): 6.5 Overall with 6.0 Speaking, 6.0 Writing, 6.0 Reading, 6.0 Listening;

TOEFL iBT: 79 Overall with 18 Speaking, 21 Writing, 13 Reading, 12 Listening;
Pearson PTE Academic: 58 Overall with 50 Speaking, 50 Writing, 50 Reading, 50 Listening;
Cambridge C1 Advanced: 176 Overall with 169 Speaking, 169 Writing, 169 Reading,169 Listening;
Occupational English Test (OET): 300 Speaking, 300 Writing, 300 Reading, 300 Listening; Duolingo (Up to and including Semester 2, 2024): Overall 105-110