IELTS total 7.0, IELTS reading 7.0, IELTS writing 7.0, IELTS speaking 7.0, IELTS listening 7.0
TOEFL iBT: total score of 94 with a minimum of 27 in Writing, 23 in Speaking and 24 in Reading and Listening
PTE Academic: Overall score of 65 AND Skills profile of 65 in Writing, Speaking, Reading and Listening
The Bachelor of Nursing prepares you for placement and your professional nursing career with more than 150 hours of learning in our Horizon Hospital and Health Service. You’ll also complete 1000 hours in clinical settings across metro, regional and rural hospitals, and health services in South Australia.
During your studies, your learning will enable you to meet the seven interconnecting Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia Registered Nurse standards for practice, which include the capacity to:
Think critically and analyse nursing practice
Engage in therapeutic and professional relationships
Maintain the capability for practice
Comprehensively conduct assessments
Develop a plan for nursing practice
Provide safe, appropriate and responsive quality nursing practice
Evaluate outcomes to inform nursing practice.
The degree is designed to prepare you to meet healthcare delivery requirements for the 21st century and respond to Australian and international healthcare priorities and trends (mental health, primary healthcare, healthy ageing). Six integrated themes are embedded throughout the curriculum and represent core approaches which inform contemporary nursing practice:
safety and quality
cultural safety
evidence-based practice
professional communication
consumers as partners in care
teamwork.
CRICOS CODE : 024218F
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Degree structure
STAGE 1 - Knowledge, skills and attitudes for understanding
First Semester (Study Period 1, 2 or 3)
Foundations of Nursing Practice
Experiential Learning Activity: Preparation for Clinical Practice Practicum 1
Global and National Health
Human Body 1
Second Semester (Study Period 4, 5 or 6)
First Peoples' Health
Human Body 2
Health of Older People
Experiential Learning Activity: Aged Care Practicum 2
STAGE 2 - Knowledge, skills and attitudes for intervention
First Semester (Study Period 1, 2 or 3)
Health of Adults
Scientific Basis of Clinical Practice
Experiential Learning Activity: Acute Care Practicum 3
Second Semester (Study Period 4, 5 or 6)
Health of Infants, Children and Adolescents
Assessment, Diagnostics and Pharmacotherapeutics
Mental Health Nursing
STAGE 3 - Knowledge, skills and attitudes for professional practice
First Semester (Study Period 1, 2 or 3)
Evidence Based Nursing Practice
Nursing Context of Practice: Primary Health Care
Experiential Learning Activity: Extension to Practice Practicum 4
Second Semester (Study Period 4, 5 or 6)
Transition to Professional Practice
Experiential Learning Activity: Transition to Practice Practicum 5
Registered Nurses are at the forefront of healthcare, with their contribution to patient care imperative for the wellbeing of today's society. UniSA nursing graduates can work in a wide variety of healthcare settings, such as:
hospitals
primary health and community support services
aged and rehabilitative care
schools
home care
drug and alcohol treatment centres
community health organisations
mental health services
international aid agencies
corrections facilities
management.
OSHC: 530 ($) per year
