Bachelor of Nursing (Post registration)
Overview
Develop your nursing skills and prepare to advance your career to new heights. Practise in a variety of clinical settings and roles as a registered nurse who is reflective about their practice, has well-developed clinical reasoning skills and a commitment to lifelong learning.
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Fast facts
Duration: 1 year
Delivery mode:
On campus
Availability:
Full-time
Part-time
Dates:
March-March
SATAC code: 2BP002
Annual indicative fees (2019):
$6,917 (Commonwealth supported)
Fast facts
Duration: 1 year
Delivery mode:
On campus
Start dates:
March
CRICOS code: 019740G
Annual indicative fees:
2018: $30,400
2019: $33,500
Why study Nursing (Post Registration) at Flinders
- Cover the fundamental requirements to be eligible to re-apply for registration as a practising nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia
- Gain an innovative practice-based education from award-winning teachers in state-of-the-art facilities
- Flinders has been a leading provider of nursing education and research for 40 years and is internationally recognised
Your career
Explore an exciting and diverse career in nursing and play an important role in health promotion, maintenance and education, as well as patient care and the restoration of health.
Potential occupations include registered nursing positions in a range of setting such as:
- medical/surgical
- emergency
- mental health
- aged care
- community health and general practice.
Potential employers include:
- community health
- aged care
- intensive care
- emergency departments
- mental health
- paediatrics and cardiac care.
Professional accreditation/recognition
This degree is accredited by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council.
What you will study
The program prepares you to develop nursing skills, relate all aspects of body function with nursing practice, and continue gaining clinical experience in various health care settings. Topics cover areas such as the nursing profession and independent learning, indigenous health and cultural safety, pathophysiology and pharmacology, clinical governance, decision-making, and transition to professional practice.
Professional experience placements prepare you for the workplace, both simulated in state-of-the-art laboratories and in clinical venues in rural and metropolitan South Australia.
In order to complete the degree, you will need to fulfil the following preclinical placement requirements to undertake compulsory clinical placements:
- National Criminal and Relevant History Screenings
- Deed Poll
- Immunisation
- Basic Emergency Life Support
- Manual Handling
- SA Health Online Orientation Package
- Hand Hygiene Online Orientation
- BloodSafe Online module
- PrePlace Online Orientation
- Needlestick Injuries Online Package
- Fitness to Undertake Placement Declaration.
If you are unable to meet these requirements*, you will not be able to undertake your professional experience placement.
*Requirements are subject to change.
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Entry requirements
Applicants must hold a current practising certificate as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.
This program is for hospital trained nurses or nurses with a three-year diploma of nursing who are seeking to advance their qualification to a degree. Applicants with a completed Bachelor of Nursing need not apply.
Entry requirements
Applicants must provide documentary evidence of eligibility for registration (for example, a practising certificate) with a nurses’ registration authority in the country in which they originally registered.
Applicants who are registered nurses in countries other than Australia must also hold an approved Diploma of Nursing (or equivalent) from an approved tertiary institution.
This program is for hospital trained nurses or nurses with a diploma of nursing who are seeking to advance their qualification to a degree.
Applications for 2019
Applications for this course are now closed for the 2019 intake.
This course is currently not offered for entry in 2020.
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