The essential guide for Nursing students
The Essential Guide links you to everything you need to know from the time of enrolling right through to managing your course, timetables, submitting assignments, exams and progressing to graduation.
CALD program | Clinical placements for pre-registration students | Managing your course | Managing your unit of study | Our School | Our courses | Our campus | Student associations | University services
To speed up your search, all lists on this page are organised alphabetically.
CALD program
Anyone from a culturally and/or linguistically diverse background can join the CALD program voluntarily. It's designed to support, assist and encourage students, and to provide a place to form a social network during their time at Sydney Nursing School.
Clinical placements for pre-registration students
- Allocation of placements
- Before you start placements
- Clinical program
- Help and enquiries
- Rosters
- SONIA
- Special requests
- Uniforms
Emergency contacts
If emergency situations may arise we need to contact a family member or other person on your behalf. So that we have up to date contact information, you need to complete the Emergency Contact details on MyUni.
Enrolment and orientation
Exams and results
- Exam information
- Re-marking
- Results and academic records
- Special arrangements for assessment and examination
- Special consideration and supplementary exams
- Students at risk
Forms
There are University and Sydney Nursing School forms and it’s worth knowing what’s on the list. Whichever one you need, our website will link you directly to it and tell you how to lodge it.
Topics include:
- Application for credit
- Application for one-week extension
- Application for re-marking
- Application for special consideration
- Application for suspension of candidature
- Application for variation of enrolment (Changing units of study)
- Application for waiver for NURS5083
- Applying for a transfer
- Re-enrolling after suspension of candidature
- Request for discontinuation of studies
- Returning to University after discontinuation
- Suspending your candidature
Graduation
Eligibility, the ceremony, gown hire etc
Managing your course
- Attendance and participation
- Changing your contact details
- Contacting staff
- Course rules – resolutions and policies relating to all courses
- Email communication
- Illness and misadventure
- Organising your timetable
- Student cards
Managing your unit of study
- Assignments (submission, late submission, coversheets, tracking, extensions, grading, returns, referencing)
- eLearning
- Unit of study coordinators
- Unit of study outlines
Our campus
Find out what facilities are there at Mallett St Campus, how you get there by public transport, where lectures are held, and more...
- Clinical simulation laboratories
- First aid and emergencies
- Mallett St Campus
- Nursing Library
- Nursing Student Services – the team dedicated to assisting Nursing students with forms, courses, enrolment and much more
- Transport to campus
- University's free security shuttle bus
- WiFi areas
Our courses
For detailed and more specific information about each individual course at Sydney Nursing School
Our School
The faculty maintains a set of standards and a vision which are both in line with the University’s values, and which underpin Sydney Nursing School’s commitment to research and high achievement. It is helpful to understand the roles and responsibilities of staff and students, as well as how you fit into this structure, and who to contact in specific areas.
- Faculty values
- Graduate attributes
- Key contacts – phones, emails and addresses
- Key responsibilities for staff and students
- Student/Staff Compact
Policies
There are policies at both the University level, and specifically for Sydney Nursing School. It’s important to know what they are and where to access them, should you need more detailed information.
Topics include:
- Academic dishonesty and plagiarism
- Assessment and examination of Coursework
- Student Appeals against Academic Decisions
- Student Grievances, Appeals and Applications for Review
Pre-enrolment
For continuing students who would like to re-enrol before the end of the current year
Scholarships and prizes
We offer a number of scholarships and prizes, in Sydney Nursing School, through the University, and externally.
NOTE: The following links will take you outside Sydney Nursing School website to the University of Sydney website...
Student associations
University services
- Accommodation service
- Careers centre
- Child care
- Counselling and Psychological Services (CAPS)
- Disability services
- Health and Welfare
- IT Helpdesk
- Koori Centre
- Learning Centre
- Student cards
CALD program | Clinical placements for pre-registration students | Managing your course | Managing your unit of study | Our School | Our courses | Our campus | Student associations | University services