Bachelor of Nursing Practice

Description

Nurses provide valued services to their communities in the provision of healthcare and the promotion of health and wellbeing. This degree provides a broad educational foundation for general nursing practice and pathways to future professional employment. It allows students to develop a diverse range of skills in communication, research, clinical reasoning and judgment. Students also gain clinical experience in a wide variety of health agencies throughout Victoria, Australia and overseas. Successful completion of the course and meeting the requirements for registration outlined by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australian will lead to eligibility for eligible for registration as a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
This course offers the student the opportunity to gain skills and knowledge in nursing and prepares the graduate for a career in nursing or further study at postgraduate level.
On completion of the course, the graduate will be able to:
• provide person-centred nursing care as a beginning practitioner in a variety of health care settings within local and global contexts
• incorporate cultural, spiritual, developmental and social dimensions in the assessment of an individual and in the planning, implementation and evaluation of their care
• practice in a safe manner that meets accepted legal, ethical and professional standards, including the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council (ANMC) National Competency Standards for the Registered Nurse
• enhance practice through the use of reflection in various aspects of the nursing role
• communicate effectively both with the individuals for whom they care and those with which they work
• use and apply evidence-based practice as a foundation for nursing care
• contribute effectively to the delivery of high quality health care to individuals, families, groups and communities

Requirements

Minimum entrance requirements
Equivalent Australian Year 12

Minimum entrance requirements for non-school-leavers
Non year 12 applicants may be admitted through the following mechanisms:

Comparable qualifications: Applicants may be admitted to the course on the basis of qualifications deemed to be the equivalent of VCE and includes qualifications at secondary or tertiary level obtained interstate or overseas or TAFE qualifications. Proof of a satisfactory English standard is required for students with overseas qualifications from non-English speaking backgrounds.

Minimum entrance requirements also include satisfactory completion of the full first year of an Associate Diploma course or an Advanced Certificate course (Cert IV) offered from a TAFE institute, or by two semester-length units of a course or non-degree studies taught by Monash, another university or Open Universities Australia.

Indigenous applicants, who have not completed school and/or are of mature age, can apply for nursing at Monash University through the Monash Indigenous Access Scheme (MIAS).

VCE prerequisites
Units 1 and 2- two units (any study combination) from general mathematics or mathematical methods (CAS), or Units 3 and 4-mathematics (any). Units 3 and 4-a study score of at least 30 in English (ESL) or 25 in any other English.

International Baccalaureate subject prerequisites
•A score of at least 4 in English SL or 3 in English HL or 5 in English B SL or 4 in English B HL, and
•A score of at least 3 in any mathematics subject.

Notes

Nursing offers excellent and varied career prospects, both in Australia and internationally. A nurse may choose to work in a tertiary or community hospital, a community clinic or mental health service, in home-based nursing or in an extended care rehabilitation centre.

Graduates can also choose further study to become clinical nurse specialists or develop careers as educators, managers and researchers.