Master of Nursing

Aims and Characteristics

Programme Aims

This pre-registration nursing programme provides a chance for Bachelor’s degree holders in any discipline to simultaneously earn a professional credential as a registered nurse, and an academic credential, namely, a Master’s degree. The programme prepares students for registration as Registered Nurses with the Nursing Council of Hong Kong and to acquire the attributes to become future leaders in the profession. Its aims are as follows.

1. To equip students for holistic care that encompasses safe, ethical, legal and culturally sensitive nursing therapeutics provided to clients of all ages and their families in various health care settings.

2. To prepare students to acquire the attributes of future nurse leaders through the appraisal and translation of new knowledge in advancing nursing practice.

Description

Our innovative approaches to learning and teaching enhance our students’ critical thinking and clinical decision-making skills, and our graduates are both leaders in the nursing profession and responsible global citizens.

Our modern facilities include nursing therapeutics laboratories (equipped and furnished as virtual clinical wards with simulation laboratories and other new technologies), mental health nursing laboratories, the Yuen Yuen Institute Chinese Medicinal Nursing Laboratory, the Dorothy Wong Intensive Care Laboratory, Gerontological Nursing Laboratory, the Integrative Health Clinic, the Herbal Medicine Learning Centre, the World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for Community Health Services, and the Yuen Yuen Institute Learning Resources Centre.

Field practice is arranged in a variety of health care settings, including hospitals, old age homes, day care centres and other community centres. We also offer a wide range of overseas student exchange programmes. To obtain balanced and comprehensive clinical experiences, students have opportunities to adapt to a variety of practicum locations, environments and rotating work schedules.

A new Global Leadership Scheme is embedded in the programme which aims to nurture future nursing leaders with global vision. Students joining the scheme can apply the Global Leadership Scholarship to participate in oversea clinical attachment and other scholarly activities.