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During this programme, you will:  

• Become equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to navigate a dynamic and evolving complex healthcare environment. 

• Develop leadership and management strategies for collaborative working in care provision. 

• You’ll explore therapeutic interventions, ethical decision-making, and multidisciplinary collaboration, while developing leadership skills to manage health promotion and care service delivery. 

• Review current innovations and developments in leading and managing change in nursing care and practice. 

• On successful completion of Year 1 of programme, students can exit with a Postgraduate Diploma in Nursing.  

Key Information: 

• Complete full-time over two years. Taken on a part-time basis 

• Blended delivery – on campus and online   

• Modules taught during autumn and spring semesters. You can click here for a schedule of lectures      

• Undertake six modules in Year 1, including three elective modules 

• Complete a systematic/integrative review in your second year  

• Students who achieve a minimum QCA grade of 2.00 at the end of year one may progress to the second year for the MSc award 

• Modules with (M) beside them can be taken as independent micro-credential   

You will learn through a blend of:   

• Lectures, workshops, and hands-on activities   

• Reflective practice and guided research   

• Regular feedback from faculty and peers   

Year 1 

Autumn Semester  

Core modules:  

• Health Research - Methods and Methodology (M) (NS6036) provides an advanced understanding of the practical application and the challenges and contribution of research to health care delivery. 

• Leading and Managing Practice (M) (NS6035) explores the evolving healthcare environment for providing a caring, person-centred approach in practice development. 

Electives – choose 1 

• Principles of Primary and Community Care (M) (NS6034)
• Supporting Perinatal Mental Health (M) (NS6051)
• Principles Underpinning Dementia Care (M)(NS6071)
• Principles of Palliative Care in Practice (M) (NS6081)
• Principles Underpinning Peri-operative Nursing (M) (NS6091)
  • Applicants must be working in peri-operative theatre to undertake this module.
• Theories of Psychosocial Assessment and Care (M) (NS6101)
• Philosophical Underpinnings of Gerontology Care (M) (NS6411)
• Advanced Assessment in Respiratory Nursing (M) (NS6201) 

Spring Semester 

Core modules:  

• explores the concept of quality and safety in healthcare in promoting quality patient outcomes. 

Elective – choose 1 

• . Applicants must have successfully completed module NS6091
• Safety Planning and Risk Management in Healthcare (M) (NS6172)  

And  

Elective – choose 1 

• Safety Planning and Risk Management in Healthcare (M) (NS6172)   

Autumn Semester 

• facilitates students to conduct a systematic/integrative review of evidence related to their nursing practice.   

Spring Semester 

• facilitates students to organise, prepare and present final research dissertation. 

Books and journal articles needed for the course will be available online through the UL Glucksman Library.  

For more information on each module, you can search the faculty, school and module code on UL’s  

• Applicants should hold a bachelor’s degree ( Level 8) with at least a second-class honours, grade 2 (2:2) in Nursing. 

• Applicants must be a registered nurse on the current register of the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland. 

• If you don’t meet the standard entry requirements, see Other Entry Considerations below.    

Other Entry Considerations 

We encourage you to apply even if you don’t meet the standard entry requirements, as long as you can show that you have the knowledge, skills, and experience needed for the programme. 

At UL, we value all kinds of learning and support different ways to qualify through our Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL) policy. 

If you wish to apply for this nursing master's through our RPL policy, you will need to  

International students:   

• For details on country-specific qualifications visit postgraduate entry requirements for international students. 

Checklist of documents: 

• *Academic transcripts and certificates
  • UL graduates only need to provide their student ID.
• Copy of your birth certificate or passport
• Nursing and Midwifery Board of Ireland annual retention certificate
• , if applicable. 

English Language: 

• English Language Competency certificate
• For details on accepted language qualifications visit English Language Requirements 

Guidelines on Completing your Application  

• To make sure we can review your application quickly, please:
  • Upload all documents. Your application can’t be reviewed until we have all the documents on the checklist. 
  • Title the documents you are uploading. For example, "Personal Statement", "Undergraduate Transcript", "Postgraduate Transcript", "English Language Certificate" etc. 
• *If you are waiting to graduate, submit your application with the documents you have to date, you don’t need to have finished final exams before applying. 

EU - €7,700 per annum*

Non-EU €7,700 per annum*

* Year 2 fees are subject to change 

Please note that international study visas are only available to students studying full-time in Ireland. This programme does not qualify for a study visa.  

Annual fees are billed by semester. Once registered, students may be eligible to apply for a monthly payment plan.  

Further information on fees and payment of fees is available from the Student Fees Office website. All fee related queries should be directed to the Student Fees Office (Phone: +353 61 213 007 or email student.fees.office@ul.ie).  

 
Funding 

Find further information on funding and scholarships.

 The MSc Nursing can lead graduates to become eligible for specialist and advanced practice roles across a variety of healthcare settings supporting people as: 

• Clinical nurse specialist
• Advanced practice posts
• Advanced nurse practitioner 

Maurice Lynch, MSc Nursing Graduate 2023  

Maurice was awarded a First-Class Honours degree and his thesis focused on the subject of Rapid Response Team Interventions on Post-Operative Patients. 

Twenty-five-year-old Maurice, who split his time between his MSc and his job as a staff nurse in the surgical ward of University Hospital Limerick (UHL), was recently awarded for his exemplary teamwork and professionalism by his colleagues at UHL. 

“It’s nice to get recognition amongst your professional peers, it means you’re doing something right. It highlights the teamwork aspect of the multidisciplinary team. There will always be difficulties working in the hospital with overcrowding and lack of beds but it’s that teamwork that pulls us through the difficult times.” 

Presented each summer by the Non-Consultant Hospital Doctors, Maurice was one of six nurses to receive this award in 2022, and one of three nurses in 2023. 

Speaking ahead of his graduation, Maurice shared why he chose UL for both his undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Nursing. 

“I’d highly recommend UL for studying nursing in terms of facilities, course structure and quality of teaching. UL’s Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery is filled with cutting edge resources, such as the clinical skills labs which replicate a four-bed hospital ward. Here students get hands-on practical experience using the likes of nasogastric tubes and catheterisation. This was very beneficial ahead of going on hospital placement. 

“The humanitarian and personable side of nursing is often lost between the amount of courses and training you have to do. It was definitely never lost amongst the training in UL.” 

UL’s BSc in Nursing (General) includes practice placements throughout the UL Hospital group in Limerick, Clare and Tipperary North. 

“The overall course structure works out around two years in college and two years in the field, so in UL you get the best of academic and practical experience,” explained Maurice. 

Maurice said his lecturers had an open-door policy to provide advice when needed. 

“The lecturers are very supportive, both academically and personally. They created a good atmosphere to learn and grow as a person, as many of us were going from being a 17-year-old out of secondary school, to developing into a nurse as well as an adult, and entering the real world of work for the first time.” 

Graduates from the BSc in Nursing programme can pursue further study in nursing or healthcare including the MSc Perioperative Nursing, MSc Palliative Care, and MSc Advanced Practice. Maurice continued his studies through the MSc in Nursing which has a broader focus. 

“I chose Intercultural Care, Primary and Community Care, and Leadership as my elective modules. These subjects have proven to be invaluable in my day-to-day work in University Hospital Limerick.” 

While the ratio of male to female nurses is still low, Maurice has never found this to be an issue. 

“We are in the minority, but we’re holding our own in the field - it shouldn’t be seen as a divide, I don’t think it is. Nurses work as part of a multidisciplinary team alongside healthcare assistants, doctors, pharmacists and other hospital staff. It’s never been a big deal – everyone works together regardless of gender. The patient is the main focus. That’s the way I’ve always seen it.” 

Maurice emphasised how a career in nursing holds many opportunities. 

“Nowadays, there are so many options to progress as a nurse specialist, an advanced nurse practitioner, or a clinical nurse manager,” he explained. 

“There are also a multitude of careers in the community coming up as part of the government’s Sláintecare initiative. And there are always research developments in the field of nursing, it’s one of those careers where there is so much scope.” 

Above all, for Maurice, it is the humanitarian side of the job that he finds most rewarding.  

“You go into work, and you see people going through difficult times and you have that capability as a nurse to change how they are experiencing things and make it that bit easier for them by caring for them or just talking to them. 

“As a career in general it is something you won’t ever regret doing – it is the commitment to something more than just a job, it is a vocation.” 

Still Curious?  

The team regularly host and take part in webinars to support future students. If you would like to learn more or ask questions at an online information session, click below.     

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