Profile
Master of Nursing program, Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing UGM officially established in 2011 according to Rector Decree Letter No. 449/P/SK/HT/2011. Until now, this program offers 5 majors:
- Medical Surgical Nursing
- Pediatric Nursing
- Maternity Nursing
- Emergency Nursing
- Psychiatric Nursing
Graduate of the program will be awarded Magister Keperawatan (M.Kep.)
Graduate Profile
- Researcher
- Graduates are able to research product as basic in solving issues, policy formulation, and knowledge development.
- Graduates are able to disseminate result of research through national and International publications
- Educator
- Graduates are able to develop learning design in nursing expertise using principles of adult learning approach as well as professional performance development in evidence-based nursing.
- Leader/Manager
- Graduates are able to improve nursing/health service management in various setting using process of management approach as well as consider ethics, legal, and policy in national and international level.
- Innovator
- Graduates are able to create innovation in nursing/health settings based on evidence and technology.
- Advocator
- Graduates are able to contribute to policy formulation for the clients, population, and nursing profession through negotiation skill and effective communication.
- Inter-professional health provider
- Graduates are able to collaborate with allied health professionals in improving nursing/health
Accreditation
Currently, Master of Nursing has been accredited by Independent Accreditation Board-Higher Education for Health in Indonesia. It is awarded A rank (excellence) based on Decree Letter: 0236/LAM-PTKes/Akr/Mag/V/2019.
Vision
To become a leading, innovative and internationally recognized Master of Nursing Program dedicated to nation and humanity’s interests, imbued with cultural values based on Pancasila.
Mission
Providing nursing higher education of postgraduate level to improve community health status through excellent education, research, community development and health service, based on local wisdom, ethics, professionalism and evidence-based science.
Goals
To be a leading, innovative, and internationally recognized nursing higher education of Master Program in Nursing through:
- Qualified nursing higher education which produces leading and competent graduates. Targets:
- Improving graduates’ competency.
- Creating intra-co-extracurricular learning system which is able to tackle local, national, and global challenge.
- Contributing for university reputation by performing nation excellence.
- Nursing research outcomes which are referred nationally and responsive to population, nation, and country issues. Targets:
- Providing qualified and capable human resources in developing valuable research.
- Devoting research quality and quantity accomplishments relevant with university roadmap.
- Improving research publication and incubation.
- Community service which supports sustainable community independence and welfare. Targets:
- Enhancing institution/unit capacity related to community service measures.
- Developing evidence-based community service.
- Strategical, synergist, and sustainable collaboration with partner institutions.
Learning Outcomes
Based on Regulation of Ministry of Research and Higher Education of Republic of Indonesia No. 44 year 2015 about National Standard of Higher Education, Master of Nursing graduates are equivalent as level 8 (eight) of Kerangka Kualifikasi Nasional Indonesia/Indonesian National Qualification Framework. Learning outcomes consists of 4 components (attitudes and values, knowledge, general skills, and specific skills).
ATTITUDE (S)
[S_1] Being devoted to God Almighty and able to show religious attitudes;
[S_2] Upholding human values in carrying out duties based on religion, morals, and ethics;
[S_3] Contributing to improving the quality of life in the society, nation, and state and to the advancement of civilization based on Pancasila;
[S_4] Being a citizen who is proud of and loves the country and has nationalism and a sense of responsibility to the state and nation;
[S_5] Respecting the diversity of cultures, views, religions, and beliefs, as well as the original opinions or findings of others;
[S_6] Showing good teamwork and having social sensitivity and concern for the community and the environment;
[S_7] Obeying the law and being disciplined in social and state life;
[S_8] Internalizing academic values, norms, and ethics;
[S_9] Showing a responsible attitude for work with their expertise independently;
[S_10] Internalizing the spirit of independence, struggle, and entrepreneurship;
[S_11] Being accountable for professional practices including the ability to accept accountability for professional decisions and actions in accordance with the scope of practice under their responsibility, and laws/regulations;
[S_12] Being able to implement nursing practices with ethical and culturally sensitive principles following the code of ethics for nurses;
[S_13] Showing respectful attitudes to the right of privacy, cultural values, and client dignity; respecting the clients’ right to choose and determine their own nursing and health care; and being responsible for the confidentiality and security of written, verbal and electronic information obtained in the capacity based on their responsibilities;
[S_14] Respecting other professions
KNOWLEDGE MASTERING (PP)
[PP_1] Mastering the concept of academic integrity in general and the concept of plagiarism in particular regarding the types of plagiarism, the consequences of violations, and the efforts to prevent them;
[PP_2] Being able to develop and update science, technology, and/or arts in nursing by mastering and understanding scientific approaches, methods and principles along with their application skills;
[PP_3] Being able to deepen or expand science in nursing to make original and tested contributions through research with an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach;
[PP_4] Being able to solve problems in nursing through research and development activities based on scientific principles;
[PP_5] Being able to criticize and provide corrective inputs from the perspective of nursing for problem solving policies that have been and/or are being implemented in the form of scientific working papers;
[PP_6] Being able to develop nursing professional performance indicated by the accuracy of problem analysis, adequate reviews, integrated problem solving or similar professions.
SPECIFIC SKILLS (KK)
[KK_1] Able to develop nursing care and learning models in nursing education and services through research;
[KK_2] Able to carry out educative activities for peers, students, and the community;
[KK_3] Able to develop a creative and entrepreneurial spirit which is innovative and responsive to changes for the advancement in nursing;
[KK_4] Able to manage creative and innovative research to evidence-based practice;
[KK_5] Able to manage nursing services at various managerial levels of nursing;
[KK_6] Able to develop nursing science and technology in nursing through research activities and able to design learning innovation models;
[KK_7] Able to disseminate/publish the results of knowledge development;
[KK_8] Able to effectively communicate information, ideas, analyses, and arguments in various forms of media for peers, other health workers, and the community, both as a leader and a member in the health service system;
[KK_9] Able to scientifically perform nursing care based on the latest nursing science.
GENERAL SKILLS (KU)
[KU_1] Able to develop logical, critical, systematic, and creative thinking through scientific research, design creation or works of art in science and technology that consider and apply humanity values based on their areas of expertise
Able to develop scientific conceptions and study results based on scientific rules, procedures, and ethics in the form of a thesis or other equivalent works and upload the works on the university website, as well as publish papers in accredited scientific journals or international journals;
[KU_2] Able to carry out academic validation or studies according to their areas of expertise and to solve problems in the community or relevant industryies through the development of their knowledge and expertise;
[KU_3] Able to responsibly formulate scientific ideas, thoughts, and arguments based on academic ethics and communicate them through media to the academic community and the wider community;
[KU_4] Able to identify object of research and position it on a research map developed through an interdisciplinary or multidisciplinary approach;
[KU_5] Able to make decisions for problem solving in the development of science and technology that consider and apply humanity values based on analytical or experimental studies of information and data;
[KU_6] Able to manage, develop, and maintain networks with colleagues and peers in the wider research institutes and community;
[KU_7] Able to independently increase learning capacity:
[KU_8] Able to document, store, secure, and recover research data in order to ensure validity and to prevent plagiarism;
[KU_9] Able to publish academic works in accredited national scientific journals or reputable international journals;
[KU_10] Able to adapt, work in teams, develop creativity, make contribution, and innovate to apply their science in social life and serve as a global citizen with global perspective;
[KU_11] Able to uphold academic integrity in general and prevent the practice of plagiarism;
[KU_12] Able to use information technology in the context of scientific development and implement their expertise;
[KU_13] Able to use at least one international language both for spoken and written communication;
[KU_14] Able to apply intra and inter-professional collaboration;
[KU_15] Able to apply lifelong learning.
Master of Nursing FK-KMK UGM adheres to the CARE philosophy, which is the belief and basis for carrying out all academic community activities in program in nursing. CARE stands for Competence, Altruism, Respect, and Empathy. In nursing, as its original meaning, CARE means that all members of the departments are people who have care and empathy for others, prioritize the interests of others, and programs as well as the interests of the nation and state, can respect others, and can work professionally.
In daily activities, CARE is the soul of activities that take place in the study program. The activities of the Three Pillars of higher education are aimed at sharpening students and the academic community to have concern and empathy for patients and clients, respect for patients, clients, and all health teams or people who interact with them, and in taking action, always prioritize the interests of patients, society, nation and state.
This philosophy is in line with the vision and missions of UGM, which is summarized in the jargon Locally rooted, globally respected. Locally rooted is reflected in words Altruism, Respect, Empathy, while globally respected is reflected in the word Competence. The CARE philosophy is the foundation of every academic activity to produce graduates as scientists/researchers, educators, managers and leaders, innovators, advocators, and inter-professional workers.
All admission process of all degree and degree program in UGM can be accessed through UGM admission website: um.ugm.ac.id
Admission process
Step-by-step procedure and online registration account can be accessed here
Admission requirements
- Hold bachelor degree in nursing and current registration as a nurse in Indonesia.
- Bachelor’s GPA minimum score of:
- GPA ≥ 2.50 (for applicants who graduated from A accredited nursing school)
- GPA ≥ 2.75 (for applicants who graduated from B accredited nursing school)
- GPA ≥ 3.00 (for applicants who graduated from C accredited nursing school)
- Scanned institution accreditation certificate of bachelor program
- Academic potential test result. Applicants may take one of these tests:
| PAPs UGM | 500 |
| TPDA PLTI | 500 |
| TPA BAPENNAS | 500 |
- English proficiency test result. Applicants may take one of these tests:
| AcEPT UGM | 209 |
| TOEP PLTI | 40 |
| International English Testing System (IELTS) | 4.5 |
| Internet-based (iBT) TOEFL | 48 |
| Institutional Testing Program (ITP) TOEFL | 450 |
- Two academic/professional referees
- Study plan which comprised of research interest, expectation, research topic, and career plan after completion
- Thesis research proposal
- Previous Publication Manuscript
- Work leave permit from current employer (if applicable)
- Documents originality letter
Course enrollment
Course enrollment should be performed by every registered student before teaching and learning activities during enrollment period. Enrollment is begun by submit study plan into UGM internal dashboard (Simaster). Study plan consists of course name and credits for the upcoming semester. Proposed study plan must be approved by Academic Supervisor (https://simaster.ugm.ac.id/akademik/dsn_approve_krs/view_mhs_dpa) and Director of Master Program in Nursing. (https://simaster.ugm.ac.id/akademik/dsn_approve_krs/view_mhs)
Teaching and learning activities
- Expert lecture
- Tutorial Group Discussion
- Seminar and presentation
- Clinical placement
- Field study
UGM students have access to Course Handbook which provides comprehensive advice and information about the whole program. Student are assigned an academic supervisor to guide them through their studies and two research supervisors to guide them completing final thesis. Students are encouraged to engage as much as possible with all faculty member and to get involved in other events such as summer/winter course, conference, workshops, seminars, competition, etc.
Student assessment methods
- Assessment of learning:
- Formative
- Mid-semester examination
- Final Semester examination
- Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE), and
- Final Project/Thesis
- Assessment rubric, example:
- Monitoring and evaluation of study:
- Student progress evaluation (in the end of each semester)
- Master of Nursing Program final evaluation
- Teaching and Learning evaluation by students
Student Appeal
Students have rights to request appeal for academic decision and recommendation made by Assessor Board and Program Board which affect their academic progress. The procedure declares granted appeals and mechanisms as well as appeals which is not allowed. Complete procedure can be accessed here.
Graduation requirements
- Grade Point Average (GPA) minimum 3.00
- Completion of all plan courses with no D and E score
- Completion of final thesis defense
- Submission of final thesis report to Director of Master Program in Nursing
- Submission of publication manuscript to national/international journal (at least one article corresponds to thesis-related topic).
Curriculum
Students must complete the program at least 2 semesters and maximum 6 semesters with at least completing 44 total credits. The duration of study is counted since students are officially registered until be rewarded in graduation board meeting (Yudisium). The Master of Nursing consists of:
- Core courses (19 credits)
- Major required courses (14 credits)
- Elective courses (minimum 3 credits and maximum 4 credits)
- Master thesis (8 credits)
Curriculum Map
1. Core Courses
This course provides comprehensive knowledge and understandings to explore and analyze nursing theories. It is expected that students are able to design the implementation on nursing theory or model in nursing practice setting.
This course is designed to provide understandings and basic skill about biostatistics which become one of core competencies should be owned by Master of Nursing. Student will learn about the development and application of statistics methodology in analyzing and solving health issues and research.
This course provides an enhanced understanding and application aspects of ethical and legal issues in nursing. It focuses on the concepts of ethics and legal issues relevant to the practice of health professions, especially nursing practice.
This course offers the concept of Inter-professional education (IPE) as well as the health professional roles in Inter-professional Collaboration Practice (IPCP) in promoting effective and comprehensive healthcare service. It also promotes evidence-based practice in IPE and IPCP context.
This course focusses the understanding of the theories and concepts of management and leadership as well as knowledge and leadership skills are required by a nurse in managing nursing services. The special feature of this course is the principles of efficiency and effectiveness in leadership including human resource management towards innovation and future orientation and skills to perform lobbying, negotiation, and presentation. This course also discusses the importance of leadership role development at the national, regional, and global levels.
This course provides an understanding and application of student centered-learning (SCL) in nursing. It focuses on the basic theories of education in nursing and nursing education process. It is expected that students are able to implement SCL in nursing education.
This course provides basic concept of quantitative research in solving clinical issues and nursing development comprehensively. It is comprised of background, research objective, methodological preferences, research design & framework, variable, population, sampling, hypothesis, research instrument, data collection, mining, and management. Also, it discusses cross sectional research, case control, cohort, and randomized control trial.
This course provides basic concept of qualitative and mixed method researches in solving clinical and nursing development comprehensively. It will discuss various qualitative approach, methodology, and analysis.
1. Core Courses
This course explores the steps of evidence-based practice implementation in clinical and community settings. It is expected that students are able to select important findings and apply it into nursing care management.
2. Major Required Courses
- Fundamental of Medical Surgical Nursing (2 credits)
This course offers basic concept of medical and surgical cases intervention related to promotive, preventive, curative, and rehabilitative measures based on evidence.
- Patient Safety in Medical Surgical Nursing (2 credits)
This course provides patient safety in medical and surgical nursing cases. It is expected that students are able to apply patient safety principles in providing medical and surgical nursing care plan.
- Advanced Medical Surgical Nursing I (2 credits)
This course is design to provide holistic care in medical and surgical nursing comprehensively as foundation of safe and effective nursing care plan for adult and family. It will focus on theory of nursing in patient with acute illness, injury, and disease deterioration.
- Advanced Medical Surgical Nursing II (2 credits)
This course explores the evidence integration and application of nursing concept for patient with chronic diseases.
- Concept of Advanced Pediatric Nursing in Family context (2 credits)
This course offers basic concepts of pediatric nursing in a family context holistically as the essential aspect in providing safe and effective nursing care for children and their family. It focuses on trends and issues in pediatric nursing, growth and development stages, and atraumatic approach for healthy and sick children in the setting of home, community, hospital, and other healthcare services.
- Advanced Pediatric Nursing Assessment (2 credits)
This course explores assessment of healthy and sick children (from newborn to adolescent). The assessment consists of history taking, developmental assessment, physical assessment, nutritional status assessment, family assessment and system assessment based on evidence.
- Advanced Pediatric Nursing I (2 credits)
This course is designed to provide understanding on pediatric nursing care using family-centered approach as well as safe and effective nursing care which suitable to growth and development stages. It focuses on theoretical concepts of health promotion approach including health perception and maintenance, nutrition, breastfeeding, activity and rest, elimination, roles and relationship, coping mechanisms, cognitive and perception, self-concepts, sexuality, and values according to growth and developmental stages at home, community, hospital, and other healthcare services.
- Application of Nursing Theory and SNL approach in Pediatric Nursing (2 credits)
This course provides theoretical and nursing models in formulating nursing care plan using Standardized Nursing Language (NANDA, NOC, NIC) and its application. It also explores the concepts of establishing priorities of nursing diagnosis, nursing intervention, and nursing outcomes in clinical and community health setting. This course focuses on theory of comfort, Orem’s self-care/dependent care deficit, theory of maternal role attainment-becoming a mother, health promotion model and adaptation model.
- Application of Nursing Theory and NANDA, NOC, NIC in Maternity Nursing (2 credits)
This course is designed to provide understanding of theory of nursing and NANDA NIC NOC approach as well as its implementation into maternity nursing care plan.
- Women’s Health Promotion (2 credits)
This course focusses on the women’s roles and status in Indonesian and globally. It offers measures on health promotion with primary-secondary-tertiary prevention towards reproductive health issues and diseases. It also discusses quality of life improvement in all stages of women as individual, group, and family in the community. In addition, involving men’s participation into women’s health promotion will be taught in this course.
- Maternal and Neonatal Health in Family Context (2 credits)
This course is designed to provide understanding on holistic nursing care for pregnant women, women in labor and postpartum, and their infants. It will focus on theory of nursing and principles in managing bio-psycho-socio-cultural needs including in normal condition or in condition when risks/complications occur.
- Transcultural Nursing in Maternity Nursing (2 credits)
This course provides the application of maternity nursing considering cultural aspects of patients. It focuses on the similarities and differences of cultures, human values, beliefs, and its application in the maternity context.
- Fundamental of Emergency Nursing (2 credits)
This course provides the fundamental of emergency nursing and its basic principles. It discusses assessment skills (ABCDE and Initial Assessment); diagnostic tests; emergency medical system; implementation of professional, ethical, and legal practice; safe environment for patients, family, and staffs. It also offers emergency management in daily life, mass casualty, and disaster (triage). In addition, students will learn about professionalism, leadership, systematic review, patient safety, risk and nosocomial infection and health promotion in this course.
- Advanced Emergency Nursing I (2 credits)
This course offers advanced emergency nursing as reference in solving clinical and nursing issues. It discusses diagnostic tests, nursing care process, communication and transportation in the emergency management system, trends and issues in emergency nursing and shock management.
- Advanced Emergency Nursing II (2 credits)
This course provides advanced emergency nursing as reference in solving clinical and nursing issues. It focuses on basic and advanced life support, emergency system, symptoms management in emergency context, and implementation of guideline and literature review in emergency setting.
- Disaster Nursing I (2 credits)
This course explores disaster nursing and quantitative studies to solve clinical issues and nursing science development. It discusses the concepts of disaster, disaster management, community disaster preparedness, hospital preparedness, local wisdom in disaster management, ethics and legal in disaster management, incident command system (ICS), data and information management, coordination and collaboration in disaster.
- Fundamental of Psychiatric Nursing and Complementary (2 credits)
This course provides the basic concepts of mental health nursing including connection between nursing theory and practice, human science basis of psychiatric nursing including: theory and practice, the use of theories in psychiatric nursing, history and trends in psychiatric mental health nursing, nurses’ competencies in mental health, ethics and legal issues in mental health, nursing process, and evidence-based in mental health and psychiatric nursing.
- Psychiatric Nursing in Special Population (2 credits)
This course explores nursing care process for psychiatric nursing among special populations of children, adults, up to elderly in the perspective of medical, nursing, and psychological aspects. It discusses homeless person with chronic mental health issues, persecuted people, person with life-threatening illness, person living with HIV/AIDS, sexuality disorder, rape victims, prisoners, domestic violence victims, human trafficking, and drug misuse.
- Basic Course – Community Mental Health Nursing (2 credits)
This course is designed to provide understanding of community mental health for individual, family, and community by empowering their resources. It consists of basic course-community mental health nursing including concept of CMHN, communication skill in mental health nursing, community management, disaster, and crisis intervention, mental health in children and teenagers, low self-esteem nursing care, social isolation, risk for violence, risk for suicide, people with dementia and depression, reporting, monitoring, and evaluation.
- Emergencies in Psychiatric Nursing (2 credits)
This course is designed to explore emergency cases in psychiatric setting. It will provide primary understanding about nursing care process for patient with psychiatric emergency, for example, nursing care for patient with delirium, drug addiction, risk for suicide, violence, and panic attack. In addition, students will learn ethics and legal aspect, assessment, and general approach of psychiatric emergency management.
3. Elective Courses
This course provides patient safety principles in medical and surgical nursing cases. It is expected that students are able to apply patient safety principles in providing medical and surgical nursing care plan.
This course discusses quality assurance in healthcare service, education, and community service to implement patient safety principles in healthcare. It is expected that students are able to apply the concepts of quality assurance in all settings and intervention as well as patient safety consideration.
This course is designed to provide fundamental of maternal and child health innovations in improving quality of life, health and wellness of mothers and their children based on personal characteristics and healthcare system development. It focuses on actual issues and innovations implementation in clinical and community settings, for instance, application in the clinical practice towards children with special needs and postpartum mothers as well as government roles and technology utilization.
This course offers scientific writing and publication techniques based on suitable guidelines.
This course focusses on integration and application of nursing concepts for patient with terminal illness and/or incurable diseases by implementing evidence-based practice. Student will learn about palliative care concept for patient to improve patient quality of life and their family as well as end of life care for dying patients.
This course offers the aspects of wound and ostomy care including basic physiology of wound healing, wound management and evidence-based practice, and clinical experience in wound and ostomy care. It is expected students are able to integrate theory and practice using patient-centered care approach.
This course provides disaster nursing, roles, and responsibilities of nurses in every disaster management phase.
This course offers fundamental of Japanese language, literature, and Japanese in daily life. It also introduces Hiragana letter, Katakana letter, Kanji letter, and able to introduce themselves.
This course provides basic concepts, specification and design of emergency department, patient flow, patient safety, waste management, care delivery system, information and technology, leadership, development of supporting staffs, resources, workload, enhancing handover from emergency department to the wards, ethics, evidence-based practice, knowledge translation, and evidence-based practice in emergency department.
This course aims to provide understanding on teamwork in disaster using STEPPS program developed by USA. It is comprised of Team STEPPS, disaster team, coordination team, contingency team, effective teamwork, communication method, regional teamwork in disaster, and team building exercise.
This course offers combination between cognitive science, computer science, and information science. Students will learn the concept of information system in healthcare and how it supports and ensure quality of nursing care. Also, they will learn the principles of effective and efficient health information system as well as nursing leadership in health information system.
This course is designed to prepare and perform effective oral presentation by emphasizing informative and persuasive public speaking. It introduces students on the essential elements of successful presentation including effective listening, presentation organization, logical structure, visualization, research and evidence, ethical consideration, and method to build confidence in public speaking.
This course is designed to enhance knowledge and skills in initiating and designing own business. It facilitated students to obtain leading mindset of entrepreneurship in health and non-health sectors.
1. Major Required Courses
- Contemporary Medical Surgical Nursing (2 credits)
This course offers issues and trends in the field of medical and surgical nursing. The goals of Medical Surgical Nursing practice are assisting patient and family to promote and maintain optimum health status.
- Application of Nursing Theory and SNL approach in Medical Surgical Nursing (2 credits)
This course applies theory of nursing in nursing care process including assessment, nursing diagnosis, planning, implementation, and evaluation using Standardized Nursing Language (NANDA, NIC, and NOC) for medical surgical nursing area.
- Advanced Medical Surgical Nursing III (2 credits)
This course focuses on integration and application of nursing concepts for patient with terminal illness and/or incurable diseases by implementing evidence-based practice. Student will learn about palliative care concept for patient to improve patient quality of life and their family as well as end of life care and bereavement family care for patient in dying stage.
- Advanced Pediatric Nursing in Family context II (2 credits)
This course is designed to understand pediatric nursing care comprehensively using acute and chronic disease management approach in the family-centered care context. It focuses on disease management for infection, immune system disorders, respiratory disfunction, gastrointestinal, hematology, cardiovascular, genitourinary, musculoskeletal, neuromuscular, neurology and cognitive, endocrine, cancer, injury, poisoning, genetics, and children who require intensive treatment. It also covers nursing care and health education and prevention strategy based on growth and development stages at home, community, hospital, and other healthcare facilities.
- Contemporary Pediatric Nursing (2 credits)
This course is designed to explore actual trends and issues in pediatric nursing.
- Management of sick children care service (2 credits)
This course provides management of sick children care at hospital using child health management system in hospital setting. It also considers guideline of national hospital accreditation and international accreditation on its quality assurance system.
- Advanced Maternity Nursing I (2 credits)
This course applies nursing theories and standardized nursing language in maternity nursing care and women’s health service. It focuses on implementation of new strategies in providing nursing care for client related to reproductive health, labor, postpartum, and baby until 40 days as well as women with sexuality disorders.
- Advanced Maternity Nursing II (2 credits)
This course applies nursing theories and standardized nursing language in maternity nursing care and women’s health service. It focuses on implementation of new strategies in providing nursing care for client related to reproductive health, labor, postpartum, and baby until 40 days as well as women with sexuality disorders.
- Contemporary Maternity Nursing (2 credits)
This course is designed to understand actual issues and trends in maternity nursing.
- Disaster Nursing II (2 credits)
This course provides disaster management for vulnerable group (children, elderly, pregnant women, patients with chronic diseases, people with special needs, and foreigners), community empowerment, natural-biohazard-chemical-radiology hazards disaster management, decontamination and isolation, shelter management, logistic management, as well as disaster training and simulation.
- Application of Nursing Theory in Emergency Nursing (2 credits)
This course provides innovation experiences and clinical skills for emergency and disaster nursing. It discusses rapid medical response team, resuscitation in emergency, and application of disaster mitigation in Regional Agency for Disaster Management.
- Advanced Emergency Nursing III (2 credits)
This course offers advanced emergency nursing in various settings and across all ages. It consists of early warning score system, diagnostic tests (radiology and USG), advanced Cardiac Life Support algorithm, management of cardiology emergencies, endocrine emergencies, nephrology emergencies, psychiatric emergencies, pediatric emergencies, neonatal emergencies, eye trauma, poisoning, snake bite, as well as clinical reasoning (stroke).
- Intermediate and Advance Course-Community Mental Health Nursing I (2 credits)
This course offers the understanding of community mental health for individual, family, and community by empowering their capabilities. Intermediate course will explore nursing care for psychosocial development, psychosocial disorders (body image impaired, grieving, and anxiety in dying process), mental health education, and mental health nursing. Advanced course provides partnership, mental health for non-medical, modality therapy for mental health disorder and rehabilitation.
- Psychiatric Nursing in Disaster (2 credits)
This course explores emergency cases in the psychiatric area. It will provide the understanding and essential skills related to disaster and its characteristics, human response towards disaster, psycho-pathology post disaster, disaster planning, preparedness and response, disaster mental healthcare team response, early intervention and mental health activities. In addition, students will learn First Aid for Psychology, nursing care for terrorism and mass riots, as well as, self-care and self-release in disaster situation.
- Complementary Psychiatric Nursing (2 credits)
This course unravels about complementary therapy for psychiatric nursing field including, basic understanding, its application, and dissemination in the national seminar.
Joint Degree
Master of Nursing (MoN) program has conducted Joint Degree program since 2018. The first joint degree program was carried out in collaboration with University of Tasmania (UTAS), Australia using scholarship scheme by Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education/Lembaga Pengelola Dana Pendidikan (LPDP) under Tripartite Agreement UGM-UTAS-LPDP.
Starting from year of 2020, MoN UGM has collaborated with Taipei Medical University (TMU), Taiwan to establish Joint Degree program. It is expected that 5 students from each institution undergoing study in both UGM, Indonesia and TMU, Taiwan. UGM students under this program will join the teaching and learning activities in Indonesia for first and fourth semesters, then second and third semesters in Taipei, vice versa. Curriculum matching process had been concocted to ensure the learning outcomes of both institutions. The graduates will be awarded Magister Keperawatan (M.Kep.) and Master of Science in Nursing (M.Sc.).
Curriculum for Joint Degree UGM-TMU
- Science in Nursing (3 credits)
- Biostatistics (2 credits)
- Nursing Ethics and Law (2 credits)
- Inter-professional Education (2 credits)
- Nursing Leadership (2 credits)
- Education in Nursing (2 credits)
- Quantitative research (2 credits)
- Qualitative research (2 credits)
- Evidence-based health care and clinical application (2 credits)
- Seminar in total quality management health care (2 credits)
- Advanced adult nursing care (3 credits)
- Advanced health assessment (3 credits)
- Clinical nursing practicum (2 credits)
- Advanced maternal and child health nursing I (2 credits)
- Advanced health assessment (3 credits)
- Child and adolescent health promotion (1 credit)
- Clinical nursing practicum (2 credits)
- Women health promotion (2 credits)
- Advanced maternal and child health nursing I (2 credits)
- Global health and transcultural care (2 credits)
- Total quality management in health care organization (2 credits)
- Field study in global health (2 credits)
- Issues in international public health (2 credits)
- Oncology nursing navigation (2 credits)
- Clinical nursing practicum (2 credits)
- Seminar in current nursing issues (2 credits)
- Advanced maternal and child health nursing II (2 credits)
- Seminar in total quality management of health care (2 credits)
- Seminar in current nursing issues (2 credits)
- Issues in advanced maternal nursing (2 credits)
- Advanced maternal and child health nursing II (2 credits)
- Seminar in current nursing issues (2 credits)
Evaluation of Program Management
Academic and non-academic staff is evaluated using four evaluation schemes including review & evaluation, monitoring & evaluation, student feedback, and staff development.
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This program is taught in the area of Faculty of Medicine, Public Health, and Nursing, Universitas Gadjah Mada which is a short walk from the centre of the University campus and provides a comfortable and well-appointed study environment. UGM students have access to the main library and substantial online journals, databases and other materials in the University and Faculty level using single sign on (SSO). Facilities include:
Postgraduate Tahir Foundation Building, comprise of:
- Auditorium
- Well-equipped classrooms
- Multimedia room
- Co-working space for students
- Statistic room
- Administration service
Ismangoen Building, comprise of:
- Simulated hospital for nursing skill
- Well-equipped classrooms
- Tutorial/Group discussion rooms
- Lecturer’s room
- Administration service
- Auditorium
- Student activity room
Other facilities, comprise of:
- Integrated biomedical laboratory
- Learning Management System (eLOK dan Gamel)
- Spacious green space
- Dedicated library and database resources (online and hard file)
- Parking lot
- Mosque
In addition, clinical nursing practicum is conducted in affiliated hospitals under Academic Health System (AHS) networks (Dr. Sardjito hospital, Banyumas hospital), community health center (Imogiri, Mlati, and Depok), and nursing homes (Panti Wredha Abhiyoso and Budhi Luhur).
Student Support Service:
- Psychological Counseling
- Talent and interest service
- Scholarship information
- Gadjah Mada Medical Center (GMC)
- International affairs (student exchange program)
- Academic clinics: Language service and Statistic consultation