Program Overview

Tailor your studies to your career aspirations with La Trobe's Master of Nursing.

Pursue clinical specialisations in relevant hospital settings with our prestigious health partners, or complete non-clinical specialisations to develop advanced knowledge of nursing research along with the critical thinking, problem-solving and communication skills you need to thrive as a nursing researcher, educator or leader.

By completing La Trobe's Master of Nursing, you will:

• Learn to effectively plan, implement and evaluate practice in your specialised context, make high-level independent judgements, and function effectively as a member of a multidisciplinary team
• Benefit from a flexible, blended learning approach that offers face-to-face or fully online study options that you can fit around your work commitments
• Choose from clinical specialisations in acute care, cardiac care, critical care, medical imaging, neonatal care, neonatal special care, and perioperative practices; or non-clinical specialisations in health management, leadership or public health
• Explore the introduction to nursing in the Australian context, including an understanding of professional standards and the healthcare organisational system
• Investigate legal and ethical issues pertinent to nursing practice.

Specialisation: Neonatal special care

Support our youngest patients and their families facing critical health issues in the first few weeks and months of life.

Learn how to deliver supportive and family-centered healthcare to newborn infants that are premature, low-birth weight or sick in the neonatal special care setting, including how to competently stabilise and manage the deteriorating infant. Expand your knowledge as you study risks, outcomes and complications related to preterm birth, congenital issues, birth trauma and the long-term impacts of acute neonatal care.