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Bachelor of Nursing Pass and Honours

Bachelor of Nursing (Pass and Honours)

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240 cp (Pass)

Minimum duration:  3 years full-time or equivalent part-time.

80 cp (Honours)

Minimum duration:  1 year full-time or equivalent part-time.

Available at                    Ballarat Campus Vic

                                     Brisbane Campus Qld
                                     Canberra ACT

                                     Melbourne Campus Vic

                                     North Sydney Campus NSW

EFTSL value of units: All 10 cp units in this course have an EFTSL value of 0.125. Units with a cp value of a multiple of 10 have corresponding EFTSL values.

1.          REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPLETION OF THE PASS DEGREE

To qualify for the Pass degree, a student must complete 240 cp from the Schedule of Unit Offerings, consisting of:

(a)        60 cp from Nursing Foundation;

(b)        50 cp from Applied Science for Practice;

(c)        60 cp from Contexts of Nursing;

(d)        60 cp from Clinical Nursing Practice; and

(e)        10 cp from Electives.

2.          REQUIREMENTS FOR COMPLETION OF THE HONOURS DEGREE

To qualify for the Honours degree a student must, in addition to satisfying the requirements of the Pass degree, complete 80 cp from the Schedule of Honours Units.

3.          PROGRESSION WITHIN COURSE

Students normally complete a unit or units at an introductory level (100 level) in an approved sequence before undertaking advanced level units (200 or 300 level) in that sequence.

In all aspects of progress through the course, students will be advised by the Course Co-ordinator and bound by decisions of the School Committee.

SCHEDULE OF UNIT OFFERINGS

Prerequisite (Pre), co-requisite (Co) and incompatible (Inc) units are indicated in parentheses where applicable.

NURSING FOUNDATION

NRSG119          10         Nursing Practice Foundations

NRSG120          10         Indigenous Culture and Health

NRSG122          10         Exploring Professional Practice

NRSG241          10         Spirituality in Health Care

NRSG343          10         Ethics for Holistic Practice

NRSG346          10         Realising Professional Practice

APPLIED SCIENCE FOR PRACTICE

BIOL117            10         Applied Science for Practice 1

BIOL118            10         Applied Science for Practice 2

BIOL228            10         Applied Science for Practice 3

BIOL229            10         Applied Science for Practice 4

BIOL326            10         Applied Science for Practice 5

CONTEXTS OF NURSING[1],[2],[3]

NRSG121          10         Contexts of Nursing 1

NRSG123          10         Contexts of Nursing 2

NRSG237          10         Contexts of Nursing 3

NRSG240          10         Contexts of Nursing 4

NRSG344          10         Contexts of Nursing 5

NRSG347          10         Contexts of Nursing 6

CLINICAL NURSING PRACTICE

NRSG124          10         Introduction to Nursing Practice

NRSG238          10         Mental Health Nursing Practice

NRSG239          10         Complex Nursing Practice 1

NRSG345          10         Complex Nursing Practice 2

NRSG348          10         Towards Professional Practice 1

NRSG349          10         Towards Professional Practice 2

ELECTIVES

NRSG116          10         Developing Healthy Communities

NRSG203          10         Images of Nursing

NRSG207          10         Clinical Nursing Practice[4]

NRSG212          10         Substance Abuse (Drug and Alcohol)

NRSG213          10         Introduction to Palliative Care

NRSG222          10         Legal Issues in Health Care

NRSG223          10         Spirituality for Nurses; Caring for the Whole Person

NRSG224          10         Nursing Practice for Specialty Care

NRSG226          10         Health and Healing Practices in Indigenous Communities: Nurses Learning from Fieldwork

NRSG227          10         Information Management in Community Settings

NRSG228          10         Health Promotion in Childbearing Families

NRSG229          10         Complementary Nursing Therapy

NRSG230          10         Transcultural Nursing in a Multicultural Society

NRSG231          10         Women’s Health Issues

NRSG232          10         Global Health

NRSG234          10         Traditional Chinese Medicine

NRSG235          10         Introduction to Orthopaedic Nursing

NRSG236          10         Community Participation

NRSG339          10         Therapeutic Communications

PHIL105            10         Values and Beliefs

SCHEDULE OF HONOURS UNITS

NRSG400          10         Research Methods (Honours)

NRSG401          10         Traditions and Challenges in Nursing

NRSG409          20         Honours Thesis (Part A)

(a)      NRSG406 40         Honours Thesis (Full-time) (Part B)

or

(b)      NRSG407 20         Honours Thesis (Part-time) (Part B)

           NRSG408 20         Honours Thesis (Part-time) (Part C)


[1] Students are required to have a current Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) Certificate from an accredited source prior to undertaking clinical practice. The currency of the certificate must be validated each year.

[2] In Queensland, all students who work with children and young people as part of their studies must have applied for a Blue Card prior to commencing clinical experience. Failure to hold a Blue Card may prevent students from gaining access to their Clinical Practice placement.

[3] As nursing brings students into contact with various communicable diseases, it is a requirement of some facilities used for clinical experience that students have appropriate immunisation.

[4] This unit is available for registered nurses and overseas trained nurses.