A candidate must successfully complete units totalling 80 credit points as detailed below. All units are valued at 10 credit points unless indicated.
Unit type | Credit Points | Specific requirements |
Core Units (6 units) | 60cp | Compulsory Core units totalling 60 credit points as per the list of units detailed below:
NUR510 Foundation of Nurse Practitioner Practice NUR511 Assess, Examine, Investigate & Diagnose A NUR512 Assess, Examine, Investigate & Diagnose B (available from 2021) NUR513 Nurse Practitioner Integrated Professional Practice 1 NUR515 Pharmacotherapeutics for Independent Prescribers (available from 2021) NUR614 Nurse Practitioner Integrated Professional Practice 2 |
Specialist Electives (2 units) | 20cp | Specialist Elective units totalling 20 credit points selected from the list of available units detailed below:
Students must undertake either: HEA550 Nursing and Midwifery Professional Leadership (available from 2022) OR MAN506 Organisational Behaviour (no longer available from 2022)(replaces MAN509 from 2021)
AND either NUR516 Critical Evaluation of Treatment Modalities OR PHM525 Indigenous Health Research |
Electives (0 units) | 0cp | There are no elective units available in this course. |
| 80cp | Total Credit Points |
Course Rules (unless otherwise indicated in the above course structure)
Course Changes from 2022
HEA550 Nursing and Midwifery Professional Leadership replaces MAN506 Organisational Behaviour from 2022.