MSc Nursing

Suitable for registered nurses from all areas of practice, our MSc Nursing will equip you with the knowledge, skills, personal, professional and inter-professional insights needed to confront, challenge and shape the future of your nursing practice. One of the greatest challenges facing nursing today is to build on nursing as a caring profession whilst incorporating new technologies, ideas and approaches to healthcare. This postgraduate nursing course is your chance to stand back and take an in-depth and considered review of nursing in order to face the challenges and opportunities of the future.

Why Study with Us

• Depending on the size of your dissertation module, you can also take three to four optional modules focusing on practice, leadership and other important aspects underpinning nursing.
• To help with your personal development you’ll create a learning contract with your tutor and take part in a Personal Development Centre to create a profile of your abilities, attributes and skills.
• You’ll be taught by academic and research staff with a wide range of experience in nursing and other healthcare practice.

What You'll Do

• You’ll interact with students from different backgrounds and different countries, and learn from their responses to nursing challenges.
• You have the option to leave with a Postgraduate Certificate or a Postgraduate Diploma.
• You’ll need to demonstrate your ability to analyze and reflect upon current issues within the practice of nursing.

Compulsory Modules

These modules are set and you have to study these as part of your course.

• Dissertation
• Introduction to Postgraduate Research
• Dissertation
• Thinking Nursing

Dissertation

In this dissertation you will draw to a conclusion the themes that you have explored throughout your learning experience. You will demonstrate your knowledge and ability to produce a piece of work that will have a potential impact on your own area of healthcare practice.

Future Careers

Our MSc in Nursing will help you develop a career in management or other sphere of nursing internationally.

You could also pursue further study in the form of a PhD or Professional Doctorate. If you are interested in either of these, please discuss this with your course leader or one of the Research Degree Tutors in the School.