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MSc Nursing Studies

Advance your nursing career with vital leadership and sector knowledge

Apply by: 25 December 2024

To start: 6 January 2025

Total fees: £8100

Per 15-credit module: £675

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Why choose Sheffield Hallam?

Teaching excellence

Awarded Gold for our Teaching Excellence (Teaching Excellence Framework 2023)
Strong career outcomes

95% of graduates in employment or further study (HESA Graduate Outcomes 2020/21)
Among the best

Shortlisted University of the Year (Times Higher Education Awards 2022)
A high performer

5-star university with top marks in teaching, employability and innovation (QS Stars)
Fully flexible

100% online, part-time study with six starts per year
Affordability

Pay per module to ease budget pressure

Become a nursing leader and learn how to analyse and problem-solve in healthcare contexts…

Sheffield Hallam’s 100% online MSc Nursing Studies supports the development of your leadership career in healthcare. Agility, resilience and confidence are essential to healthcare, and, as such, the course develops your ability to provide judgements and solutions in contemporary health care situations and understand the perspective of different specialist professionals in the sector.

As a student you will develop your post-registration nursing career so you can progress into leadership in the health care sector. You will learn how to lead change in your professional area, analyse and problem-solve using evidence-based health care knowledge and gain insights from different professional perspectives across the health care sector.

Overall, you will develop your skills in self-direction, critical thinking, decision making and originality in navigating complex and unpredictable situations and advance your career in health care settings.

Learning outcomes

As a student you will:

Learn how to critically evaluate current research in nursing practice and healthcare including teaching and learning, leadership and service or practice development and improvement.
Develop your ability to apply creative and innovative solutions to complex and unpredictable situations.
Gain high-level skills and learn how to autonomously plan and implement tasks while developing your knowledge and understanding of advanced nursing and innovation in healthcare.
Be able to specialise in a field of interest and develop your skills of self-direction, critical thinking, problem solving and decision making.

Career opportunities

Develop the skills sought by today’s employers for careers such as:

Advanced Nurse Practitioner
Advanced Clinical Practitioner
Clinical Nurse Specialist
Executive Nurse Leader
Nurse Administrator
Nurse Educator
Nursing Consultant
Public Health Nurse
Research Nurse

Flexible learning

Degree studies you can tailor to your life...

Sheffield Hallam’s online MSc Nursing Studies is designed for the needs of busy professionals aiming to advance into nursing leadership roles. As a student you will develop your knowledge and skills in professional nursing practice and gain the skills and expertise necessary to provide evidence-based solutions in health care. Additionally, you’ll enjoy the flexibility of fully online, part-time study, enabling you to balance your education with your personal and professional commitments.

Entry requirements

All students

To study Sheffield Hallam’s 100% online MSc Nursing Studies applicants must be NMC registered nurses (or equivalent professional registration for international applicants) and:

Applicants must normally hold a 2:2 undergraduate honours degree or its equivalent in any subject discipline.
OR
Applicants with a lower degree classification will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

Any offer to study an online programme with Sheffield Hallam is subject to your acceptance of the University’s Terms and Conditions and Student Regulations.

English language requirements

Applicants whose first language is not English, or most recent education or work experience was not in English will need to demonstrate proficiency by completing an approved English language test such as IELTS (6.5 overall with a minimum of 6.0 in writing and no individual element below 5.5), or equivalent.

Any offer to study an online programme with Sheffield Hallam is subject to your acceptance of the University’s Terms and Conditions and Student Regulations

Modules

Leadership in Healthcare Practice

Fundamentals of Healthcare Policy and Practice

Organisational Change and Innovation

Critically explore theories, concepts and methodologies relating to innovation and change within the context of healthcare. You will critically appraise evaluate organisational culture and its response to innovation and change. You will also receive input from academic and healthcare experts, carry out online activities to explore the use diagnostics and methodologies and view a range of case studies that focus on real world context.

Developing Professional Practice for Teaching and Learning

Client Engagement and Solution Focused Nursing

Digital Literacy in Healthcare

Patient Care and Public Involvement

Health Inequalities and Determinants of Health

Supervision in Healthcare Settings

Interpreting Evidence-Based Practice

Develop the knowledge and skills required to interpret and evaluate evidence-based literature and to assess the impact and benefits of local and national health and other policies on the health and wellbeing of people. Using a range of effective electronic search strategies related to contemporary health issues, you will explore how the skills of critical enquiry positively contribute to modern health care practices.

Service Development Project

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100% onlineMSc Nursing Studies