MSc Nursing

Course details

Delivery: online, part-time

Duration: two years

Start dates: Future start dates to be confirmed.

Fees: £8,300 (flexible payment plans available)

Course overview

As a key healthcare profession, nursing is constantly faced with the need to rapidly implement new technologies, ideas, and approaches. It’s important that those in this practice can adapt to these changes while building on the critical thinking, creativity, and care that underpins it.

Our online, part-time MSc Nursing is designed to aid registered nurses from every area of the profession. We bring together nurses from all different backgrounds, specialisms, and corners of the world. Through your time on the course, we’ll help you develop the specialist skills, knowledge, and inter-professional insights needed to drive your practice forward.

Your studies will empower you with the ability to view nursing with more thought and detail, reflecting on how the profession has changed over time. This in turn will leave you better prepared to rise to the challenges and opportunities of the future, no matter what healthcare system you work in.

Looking further inwards, you'll be encouraged to reflect on your own practice, drawing from your prior experience and combining your knowledge with new learning and fresh perspectives. You'll begin to take a more critical and creative approach to your profession, promoting and providing innovative leadership within contemporary healthcare.

You can look forward to being supported by our excellent academics and support services. Plus, through our intuitive, mobile-friendly virtual learning platform, you can earn your postgraduate degree from home or on the move.

Experienced team

Gain invaluable insights and feedback from our academics and research staff, who have a rich array of experience in nursing and healthcare.

Flexible study

Engage with both lecturers and fellow students via live webinars that can be watched back at any time, at your convenience.

Professional growth

Receive resources to sharpen your independent learning, allowing you to continue your own professional growth even after graduation.

Learning outcomes

This postgraduate programme is built to give registered nurses the tools and critical understanding required to analyse on their practice and foster a dynamic, forward-facing approach to work.

Upon completing the MSc Nursing, you’ll be able to:

Evaluate and apply appropriate theories and models for contemporary leadership within the context of your practice
Examine the practical use of nursing knowledge, and its relationship with patient outcomes and the work of healthcare organisations

Drive innovative leadership in nursing professionals by encouraging the union of real-world experience and new learnings
Facilitate personal reflection in yourself and others to enhance critical appraisal and creativity in nursing
Utilise heightened cognitive, analytic, and problem-solving skills – along with the initiative needed to pursue continued professional development

Setting you up for success throughout the rest of the course and beyond, this module will take you through a broad overview of research principles and ethics to advance your research skills.

You’ll master the techniques to find and use literature and data more efficiently to streamline your research process.

Through your coursework, you’ll also strengthen your ability to analyse, present, and interpret such research to assess its 'real-world' implications.

As well as core academic competencies, you'll enhance important transferrable skills, including communication and presenting through peer study groups and problem solving.

We’ll guide you in building the critical awareness and advanced learning capabilities needed to devise innovative approaches to develop your practice.

During this part of the course, you’ll learn how to explore and evaluate nursing knowledge, and critically examine the influence and contribution of nursing in patient outcomes in modern health and social care settings.

You'll be encouraged to share your personal experiences and insight in order to critically appraise both your individual role and the role of nursing as a practice within your organisation and the wider world.

Equipped with advanced strategies to help you on your lifelong learning and development journey, you'll become a more self-aware and creative nurse.

This module will develop your ability to think critically and strategically about your leadership or management practice.

You will learn how organisational structures respond to political and social change and analyse how leadership and management styles influence organisational change.

We’ll give you the tools to facilitate change and influence policy in whatever healthcare system you work within.

During this module, you will critically examine an area of your work environment and produce a proposal for practice development based upon your findings.

You will combine different practice development strategies with the aim of widening clinical boundaries, enhancing your personal practice and improving patient experience.

You will produce a portfolio on your chosen area of practice development and will identify and critically examine the benefits and challenges of implementation.

Your final project will be a dissertation – an opportunity to use the knowledge and skills you’ve gained on the programme to produce an in-depth piece of work.

This project can reflect your own clinical, professional, or philosophical focus, and can even address a challenge you face in your practice or place of employment.

You’ll decide on a research methodology before you proceed, and we’ll support you with a range of materials and contacts.

Entry requirements

You must be a registered, qualified nurse with evidence of recent professional development
You’ll need to evidence your registration / qualification and share proof of recent professional development
References from your sponsor or employer will be sought
If you don’t speak English as a first language you will need to hold a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 or an accepted equivalent.

Unsure if you have the right qualifications or experience? Don’t worry – we know it’s impossible to measure everyone’s capabilities in the same way.

How we teach

We offer an interactive mix of weekly webinars, forums, and learning activities to keep you engaged and challenged during your studies with us. However, you’ll also be given the freedom and flexibility to access these resources at your own time, to best fit your schedule.

In addition, we’ll provide guidance on how to identify, locate, and use the online material available in the Library. Comprehensive bibliographies are provided for each module, as are guidelines for when you’ll be expected to produce essays, projects, and your dissertation.

Careers and opportunities

Upon earning your MSc in Nursing, you’ll be well-positioned to progress into management and leadership roles within the healthcare sector.

You can also expect to have developed a range of additional tools to help you secure such roles, including advanced Information Technology expertise and excellent communication skills.

Your degree also opens you up to the prospect of pursuing further study at doctorate level, such as a PhD or Professional Doctorate; in many countries an MSc is an essential requirement for study at doctoral level.

Check out our MSc Nursing careers page for more information on potential career paths open to you.

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