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Advanced Standing

Prospective students holding the Enrolled Nurses Certificate Level IV or Advanced Certificate with Medication Administration Module will be granted automatic entry to the B Nursing. In recognition of their TAFE studies and professional experience, this group will be granted advanced standing in the following units:

Admission

Students would normally apply through UAC and enter via achievement of minimal UAI ranking. International applicants should contact UWS International for details on admission. Contact information for the International Office is available via the UWS website: http://sites.uws.edu.au/international

Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 240 credit points including the units listed in the recommended sequence below.

Full-time

Year 1

Autumn session

Nursing for Health and Wellbeing

This unit introduces the student to nursing concepts, principles and skills that identify, promote, maintain and support health and wellbeing across the lifespan.

Understanding Good Health

This unit introduces the student to concepts and mechanisms involved in normal body functions and the maintenance of normal activities of living that inform professional nursing practice.

Behavioural Foundations of Nursing Practice

This unit introduces the student to psycho-social concepts and principles that underpin human behaviour and inform professional nursing practice.

Becoming a Nurse

This unit introduces the student to the basic constructs that form professional nursing and nursing practice.

Spring session

Nursing and Health Breakdown

This unit introduces students to professional nursing concepts and practices that promote, maintain and support people who are affected by health breakdown.

Introduction to Health Breakdown

This unit introduces students to the concepts and mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice.

Nursing and Healthy Communities

This unit introduces the student to psychosocial concepts and principles that promote and sustain the health of communities and informs professional nursing practice.

Knowing Nursing

This unit introduces students to further constructs that inform professional nursing and nursing practice related to health breakdown.

Year 2

Autumn session

Medical-Surgical Nursing 1

This unit will elaborate on professional nursing concepts and practices that promote, maintain and support people who are experiencing health breakdown affecting eating, drinking, nutrition and elimination.

Alterations in Nutrition, Elimination and Sexuality

This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected by alteration in eating, drinking, nutrition, elimination and sexuality.

Evidence-Based Nursing 1

This unit explores concepts related to 400755 Evidence Based Nursing, which will further develop student understanding of the significance of scholarship, research and the research processes and how these may inform professional nursing knowledge and practice.

Family Health Care: Health Issues and Australian Indigenous People

This unit provides the student with opportunities to investigate and discuss health issues as they relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Spring session

Medical-Surgical Nursing 2

This unit will elaborate on professional nursing concepts and practices that promote, maintain and support people who are experiencing health breakdown affecting breathing, work/leisure, sexuality and mobility.

Alterations in Breathing, Work/Leisure and Mobility

This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected by alteration in breathing, work/leisure, sexuality and mobility.

Mental Health Nursing 1

This unit will extend the student’s understanding of the relationships between stress, adaptation, mental health and the person’s capacity to function in everyday life and the implications for professional nursing practice.

Family Health Care: Child and Adolescent Nursing

This unit explores physical, social, political and community issues which impact on the health of children, adolescents and families. The knowledge gained will be appropriate for working with children and families within a hospital or community setting. The promotion of health and prevention of illness underpines this unit.

Year 3

Autumn session

Family Health Care: High Acuity Nursing

This unit will elaborate and consolidate mechanisms of health breakdown and complex nursing concepts and professional nursing practices that promote, maintain and support health and wellness. The focus is on providing professional nursing care of people who are experiencing acute, profound physiological, psychosocial and spiritual health breakdown.

Mental Health Nursing 2

This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected by serious mental health breakdown.

Family Health Care: Chronicity and Palliative Care Nursing

This unit engages students in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of professional nursing care for those individuals and their families living with a chronic illness and those dying from a life threatening illness.

And one elective

Spring session

Transition to Graduate Practice

This unit explores the transition to graduate practice from undergraduate nursing student to graduate professional registered nurse focusing on the role, responsibilities, accountabilities and options for the registered nurse.

Evidence-Based Nursing 2

This unit consolidates and assists student's synthesis of the major methodological approaches to support evidence-based practice, the process of research/inquiry and their application in the development of a defensible and justifiable nursing research project.

Leadership in Graduate Practice

This unit introduces the student to the role of the professional nurse as leader and manager.

Family Health Care: Older Adult Nursing

The health and wellbeing of older people reflect their genetic inheritance, the environment, lifestyle choices and a complex set of developmental experiences upon which individuals, groups and socio-political influences have impinged. Nevertheless, being or becoming 'old' is only one part of a person's life experience. Thus, in order to understand 'being old', we need to have knowledge of such influences and experiences. By promoting the health and therefore the potential of people, nurses have the opportunity to be in the forefront of health care. This opportunity places nurses in a position to intervene therapeutically in the lives and upon the lifestyles of older people by working with individuals and groups to facilitate healthy aging and by promoting positive attitudes towards ageing and older people.

Bachelor of Nursing

 

If you're seeking a rewarding career in nursing, a career that allows you to make a tangible difference to people's lives, choose the UWS Nursing degree. The University of Western Sydney is Australia's largest nursing education institution, with more than 2,000 students enrolled.

Renowned both locally and internationally for its enthusiastic, committed, competent graduates, effective teaching and research activities, and innovative professional programs, the UWS Nursing Program plays a vital role in the Australian health system. It gives students practical and theoretical knowledge, as well as the professional experience and research skills necessary for a rewarding nursing career.

During your studies you'll learn theoretical and practical concepts regarding the roles and responsibilities of nurses in the context of health and health breakdown across the human lifespan. You'll have the opportunity to apply biological and behavioural sciences to nursing, develop an understanding of research principles and their relevance to the planning of nursing care, acquire practical skills in the clinical practice units, and undertake clinical placement in a variety of health care settings.

Course Details

UAC Code Campus UAI 2008
704175 Parramatta 68.10
704125 Campbelltown 65.20
704150 Hawkesbury 65.15

Duration

Three years full-time or equivalent part-time.

Note: 'part-time' refers to study load not to timetabling of evening classes.

Clinical Training

Throughout the course, you'll be placed in a range of health facilities and community settings. These will provide you with a variety of clinical experiences, opportunities to practise and to consider career options as a graduate nurse.

Professional Recognition

After successfully completing a UWS Nursing degree, you are qualified to apply for registration as a registered professional nurse with the Nurses and Midwives Board, NSW, and other Nurse Registration Boards in Australian states and territories (subject to meeting their criteria).

A Career in Nursing

As a graduate of one of the world's best recognised and highly regarded nursing schools, you'll be very employable (UWS nursing graduates have a very high employment rate). The numerous and broad career opportunities in Australia and overseas are key factors attracting both women and men to the nursing profession. You will be qualified to work in diverse settings such as:

  • acute care hospitals
  • community health
  • paediatric health
  • mental health care services
  • disability services
  • rehabilitation services
  • aged care services
  • operating theatres
  • emergency or trauma units
  • forensic, drug, alcohol, and occupational health

Assumed Knowledge

Any two units of English.

Recommended Studies

Any two units of mathematics and any two units of science.

Additional Selection Criteria

If you are not a 2007 Australian Year 12 student and have not completed studies at least to the level of the NSW HSC or equivalent, we recommend you sit the Special Tertiary Admissions Test (STAT). Enrolled Nurses are not required to sit STAT. All Enrolled Nurses have guaranteed entry.

Applicants who hold overseas professional nurse qualifications/registration or a related degree in the biological sciences are advised to seek advice relating to their eligibility to enter the Bachelor of Nursing (Graduate Entry) degree.

To be enrolled in this course you must comply with the occupational screening and vaccination policy of NSW Health at course commencement. You will also need to provide evidence of holding a current Senior First Aid Certificate (WorkCover Approved Course).

Advanced Standing       

Applicants with the Enrolled Nurses Advanced Certificate or Certificate IV will receive credit of three specified core units and an elective unit. Applicants with other qualifications will be assessed for advanced standing on a case by case basis. Advanced standing could be granted where there is evidence of similar match in content per unit to previous studies. Advanced standing may also be subject to successful completion of a skills challenge test.

Application Information

To lodge an application for the course of your choice check the Application Information.

Honours

An honours option is available as an additional year (or part-time equivalent) to meritorious students.

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