Bachelor of Nursing (Advanced Studies)

The Bachelor of Nursing (Advanced Studies) is a three-year pre-registration program for students without previous tertiary qualifications. It is designed to introduce you to the profession of nursing through an integration of both clinical practice and theory. Clinical practice is an important part of your program. In total you’ll have more than 900 hours clinical practice. This includes clinical placement experiences in a wide variety of health care settings to give you hands-on nursing practice in emergency departments, intensive care units, paediatric units, mental health facilities, community health centres and more. The opportunity to undertake a clinical placement overseas means you can explore other cultures and languages. You can have fun experiencing nursing in other places and then bring back your knowledge to Australia to help shape the future of health care.

2012 study pattern for the Bachelor of Nursing (Advanced Studies)

Year

Semester 1

Semester 2

1

NURS1001 Health and Human Biology

NURS1002 Health Assessment

NURS1003 Population Health to Personal Health Care

NURS1004 Nursing Knowledge, Practice and Policy

NURS1005 Interruptions to Normal Physiology
Prerequisite: NURS1001

NURS1006 Understanding Experiences of Illness
Prerequisite: NURS1002

NURS1007 Health Research

NURS1008 Acute Care Nursing Practice
Prerequisite: NURS1002

2

Introduction to Pharmacology
Prerequisite: NURS1001, NURS1005

Child and Adolescent Health and Care
Prerequisite: NURS1008

Contexts of Health and Disease

Understanding Mental Health

Pharmacology, People and Practice

Ageing, Health and care

Health and Indigenous Populations

Clinical Practice in Mental Health

3

Nursing the Critically Ill Person

Life-Limiting conditions and Palliation

Leadership in Health Professional Practice

Managing chronic Conditions

First Line Intervention

Community Health Nursing

Politics, Policy and Health

Professional Practice Experience