MEDICINE AND HEALTH Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION Graduates of the course may be eligible to apply to the Nursing SATAC CODE – 1CM097 and Midwifery Board of Australia for endorsement as a Nurse Online Practitioner. See the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia website for further details regarding regulatory requirements. DURATION – 2 years part-time CAREER OPPORTUNITIES Nurse Practitioners work in a wide variety of health care settings. DOMESTIC INTAKE – Semester 1 As a Nurse Practitioner you can work in primary health care, community health or older adult care. Nurse Practitioners ABOUT THE COURSE work in hospital or outreach from different specialist areas, common areas; chronic diseases i.e. heart failure, renal or Our Master of Nursing (Nurse Practitioner) is an online course respiratory. There are opportunities to work as an endorsed Nurse designed for experienced registered nurses who want to build Practitioner in public and/or private health care either employed their professional practice capability and seek endorsement as or through your own business. a Nurse Practitioner in line with the Standards of Practice set by Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. ADMISSION REQUIREMENTS This course will enhance your knowledge and advanced practice Applicants must: skills in a range of areas including, but not limited to: > hold current and unrestricted registration as a registered > expanded practice nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation > professional autonomy and accountability, and Agency (AHPRA) > clinical leadership. > have completed a graduate certificate or higher degree in their nursing clinical field The course builds on your knowledge from professional > provide a curriculum vitae demonstrating a minimum of two- experience and postgraduate studies. Focusing on person-centred years of full time equivalent (FTE) employment as a registered care that is culturally responsive, to be applied within primary nurse in a specified clinical field and a minimum of an health care, or any other healthcare settings where a Nurse additional two-years FTE of recent advanced nursing practice Practitioner provides care. in the same clinical field. Intensives (on campus) > provide evidence from an approved health care organisation While this is an online course, you are required to complete that support the applicant and the clinical requirements, two on-campus intensives. Each intensive is one-week long and including supervision and clinical support for a minimum of takes place at CDU's Sydney campus early in Semester 1 each 300 hours of supernumerary integrated professional practice year. Exact dates are confirmed during the course and students during the course. are responsible for the costs of attendance (including travel and accommodation). ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS Clinical requirements Students may be required to undertake a Criminal History In this course you are required to undertake a minimum of 300 Check and Working with Children Check prior to undertaking hours supernumerary integrated professional practice (IPP). supernumerary integrated professional practice. Further details are available in the Clinical Requirements SNNP01 Assessment Pack for the professional practice units. Clinical Support Team (CST) Chosen Clinical Support Team members and the clinical mentor (CM) must be employed at a minimum of 0.5 full-time equivalent (FTE) to enable consistent supervision and assessment in practice; casual staff are not eligible as CST members. The nurse practitioner (NP) student will be working closely with their team to expand and further develop their clinical skills, decision-making, critical thinking, diagnostic reasoning, patient management, and professional practice. It is desirable that the members of the CST have at least one of the following: educational training, experience supervising previous NP students, or experience of supervising registrar or medical students as outlined in the CST agreement form. 108 Charles Darwin University 2023 undergraduate and postgraduate degrees