Master of Health Sciences Professional Practice - Palliative Care

University of Canterbury

The Master of Health Sciences Professional Practice is a 180-point, professionally focused, coursework-based master's degree. This degree will appeal to those already employed in the health sector or those wishing to enter health-related employment, with students examining a range of significant issues in health sciences, and looking to improve their professional practice as a result. You will be taught by some world-leading researchers in Te Kura Matai Hauora School of Health Sciences. You may either follow a general programme, or focus on a specialisation and receive your qualification endorsed in one of several areas: Environment and Health Health and Community Health Behaviour Change Health Information Management Health Leadership and Management Palliative Care UC also offers a research-inclusive (240-point) Master of Health Sciences, which includes a clinical Nursing endorsement. Palliative care has emerged as a speciality that incorporates inter professional health care provision for people who are living with and dying from active, progressive diseases or conditions that are not responsive to curative treatment. Palliative care embraces the physical, social, emotional, and spiritual elements of wellbeing (tinana, whanau, hinengaro, and wairua) and embraces a person’s quality of life while they are dying. This field involves people throughout the life span from children through to the elderly and continues on to support the bereaved whanau. The Postgraduate Certificate in Palliative Care develops health practitioners' skills in palliative care and introduces palliative care as a research field. It comprises two courses and can be started in Semester 1 or 2. The Palliative Care endorsement of the Postgraduate Diploma of Health Sciences, the Master of Health Sciences, and the Master of Health Sciences Professional Practice will prepare you to be employable and/or provide leadership in palliative healthcare within Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally.

Faculty of Health