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A study planner will help you decide what topics to study and when. Use it as a guide to plan your enrolment and complete your degree, alongside the program of study, ensuring all requisites are met.

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To qualify for the Master of Nurse Practitioner, a student must complete 54 units with a grade of P or NGP or better in each topic and complete the required Supernumerary Integrated Professional Practice, according to the program of study below.

Not all topics are necessarily available each year.

1. This Program of Study serves as a suggested study plan.  When core topics are offered in both halves of the year, students may enrol in these topics in either half of the year as long as requisites are met.
2. Upon completion of the course, graduates are eligible to apply to the nursing regulatory authority to practise for endorsement as a nurse practitioner.

Applicants must:

• Hold a Bachelor of Nursing or equivalent qualification from an approved tertiary institution
• Have current general registration as a registered nurse in Australia
• Hold a postgraduate qualification at Australian Qualifications Framework Level 8 relevant, clinically, to the context of the applicants advanced nursing practice
• Have a minimum of two years full-time equivalent practice as a registered nurse in a specialist clinical field in Australia or New Zealand
• Have a minimum of two years current full-time equivalent practice at an advanced nursing practice* level in this same clinical field, as defined by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia, within the last six years in Australia or New Zealand
• Provide evidence of approval from an employing organisation to complete the 300 hours of supernumerary integrated professional practice that is a requirement of the course, and evidence of supervisor availability

*Advanced nursing practice (ANP): ANP is a continuum along which nurses develop their professional knowledge, clinical reasoning and judgement, skills and behaviours to higher levels of capability (that is recognisable). Nurses practising at an advanced level incorporate professional leadership, education and research into their clinically based practice. Their practice is effective and safe. They work within a generalist or specialist context and they are responsible and accountable in managing people who have complex health care requirements.

Advanced nursing practice is a level of practice and not a role. It is acknowledged that advanced nursing practice is specific to the individual within their context of practice.

Graduates will demonstrate integration of their learning with the Nursing and Midwifery Board's requirements for endorsed Nurse Practitioners by meeting the required national competency standards for practice.