Master of Nursing

Director of Education Message

This Post-graduate Nursing Programme aims to provide you with a bird’s eye view of the complexities in the Singapore healthcare system, thereby enabling you to chart a clear path on acquiring key competencies required to manage these challenges. Our goal is to stretch our students’ multidimensional abilities through knowledge gaining, case study discussions, clinical encounters, development of community projects and generate evidence-based solutions for healthcare challenges.

The Master of Nursing Programme is unique in that we adopt experiential learning to facilitate your learning through simulation training to master clinical skills, virtual integrated case encounters to facilitate knowledge translation, clinical decision making training platform to master the mental reasoning process, and an intelligent student-centric teaching and learning platform to monitor your learning progress. With these innovative teaching pedagogy, your clinical competencies and leadership abilities will be broadened and sharpened, thereby enabling you to manage the complex healthcare conditions and care issues holistically and safely.

As a leader in the teaching and development of nursing professionals in Asia, we not only seek to develop problem solvers that can sense anomalies within the system and challenge the status quo, but also innovative thinkers with scientific mindsets that are capable of finding solutions and leading change to alter the nursing landscape in Singapore. We are committed to nurturing lifelong learners that keep close alumni ties with the school to continually develop themselves and the nursing profession.

I look forward to personally welcoming you to the Master of Nursing Programme.

Assoc Professor Zhou Wentao
PhD, MN, PG Dip (Edu), Adv Dip (Neuro), BSN

Application

Academic Year Commences in January every year

One intake per academic year
Application opens from 1 September to 15 October each year.

Programme Overview

The Master of Nursing (MN) curriculum offered by NUS reflects the current healthcare needs and the importance of advanced nursing practice.

Students receive advanced clinical knowledge, skills and acquired professional attitude from a range of disciplines in advanced nursing practice, clinical medicine, social sciences and public health. Students acquire and apply learnt knowledge and skills not only on campus but also in clinical practice settings. Upon successful completion of the MN programme, graduates are eligible to apply for APN provisional license with the Singapore Nursing Board (SNB) to continue with a 12-month Integrated APN Internship (IAI).

Aims of Programme

This programme aims to enable MN graduate to perform the nine APN core Entrusted Professional Activities (EPAs) at the expected level of entrustment (LOE). They will acquire knowledge, skills and attitude to build their capabilities in the five competencies domains determined by SNB: Patient care, Clinical knowledge, Interpersonal and communication skills, Practice-based learning and improvement, and Professionalism. The details on core competencies of Advanced Practice Nurse can be found on SNB website.

Core EPAs for MN students
EPA1 Perform an initial assessment and formulate management plans
EPA2 Manage follow-up care for a patient
EPA3
Plan, perform and evaluate care procedures
EPA4 Recognise and manage patients requiring immediate clinical attention
EPA5 Manage care transitions within and between health care settings
EPA6 Recognise and manage pharmacology needs of patients
EPA7
Collaborate with patients, families and community to improve health through disease prevention and health promotion
EPA8
Participate in health quality improvement initiatives
EPA9
Develop self and others in professional practice

The MN programme offers 2 pathways: 

  • Adult Health (AH) 
  • Paediatric (Paed), which is applicable for Registered Nurses (RN) working in the paediatric setting

Programme Structure

The MN programme is an 18-month programme and will be delivered across 3 semesters.

Contact Us

Alice Lee Centre for Nursing Studies