OVERVIEW
This qualification will provide a career path for Professional Nurses who would like to specialize within the field of nursing research. Students learning towards this qualification will become advanced nurse practitioners within the area of nursing research. The advanced nurse practitioners require specialized skills and knowledge on research ethics; research computing skills; research methodologies and nursing research paradigms; and statistics to conduct independent nursing research on an array of nursing issues to respond to the Health care needs of society. Further to this the programme will prepare students to engage in research for evidence-based practice and grounding in epidemiology and biostatistics to respond wholly to the public Health care needs of a society by enabling nurses to comprehensively and independently conduct nursing research.