Master of Nursing (Mental Health) Online

What you will study

To earn the Master of Nursing (Mental Health), you must successfully complete units totalling 300 credit points, as detailed below. Unless otherwise noted, each course is worth 25 credit points. 

Entry requirements

The program is open to registered nurses who have a previous degree or those who do not have a degree but have accumulated a wealth of experience in nursing.

English language requirements

• You must be able to demonstrate two years of full-time secondary, vocational or tertiary level study in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, South Africa, the United Kingdom or the United States of America.
• If you do not meet these requirements, you must sit the Academic IELTS exam and score at least 7.0 overall and 7.0 in each sub-section (reading, writing, listening and speaking) to qualify for entry into the Master of Nursing (Clinical Nursing). This applies to Permanent Residents and Australian citizens whose first language is not English and who have not completed two years of full-time academic study in Australia. IELTS results will need to be verified by the Admissions Office before an offer of a place can be made. The Admissions Office reserves the right to ask for IELTS results from any applicant.

Contact the university for more information.

Recognition of Prior Learning

You may be eligible for recognition of prior learning if you have previously studied or have relevant work experience. This will help reduce the number of units you need to study to finish your course. Contact the university for more information.

Outcomes

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of the Master of Nursing (Mental Health), graduates will be able to:

• Analyse and interpret nursing scenarios to provide evidence-based quality practice.
• Use reflective practice techniques in a range of learning activities to promote professional practice.
• Apply leadership and collaborative skills within an interprofessional healthcare environment.
• Apply concepts of global, medico-legal, social and cultural diversity.
• Identify the distinguishing characteristics of nursing research in terms of purposes, underlying assumptions and available methodologies.
• Explore the principal paradigms employed in health and nursing research and differentiate between them in terms of their epistemological bases and their respective strengths and limitations in addressing different types of research.
• Formulate research-friendly questions and align those questions with appropriate research designs, data collection procedures, techniques and data analysis.
• Critique examples of research studies and models, identifying strengths and limitations of design that might threaten the internal validity and generalisability (external validity) of the findings.
• Identify important ethical or other issues when conducting nursing research and apply value-appropriate safeguards to the interests of all stakeholders involved in a research project.
• Apply advanced technical skills and reflective practice within the domain of nursing research.

Career outcomes

With a Master of Nursing (Mental Health), you can pursue careers as a nurse unit manager, nurse practitioner, nurse educator or mental health nurse.

Fees and FEE-HELP

Indicative annual fee in 2026: $38,700 (Full-fee paying place)

Indicative annual fees are based on your first year of study.

A student’s annual fee may vary by:

• The number of units studied.
• Choice of units.
• Credit from previous study or work experience.
• Eligibility for government-funded loans.

Student fees shown are subject to change. Contact the university directly to confirm.

FEE-HELP loans are available to assist eligible full-fee paying domestic students with the cost of a university program.