Prospective students holding the Enrolled Nurses Certificate Level IV or Advanced Certificate with Medication Administration Module will be granted automatic entry to the B Nursing. In recognition of their TAFE studies and professional experience, this group will be granted advanced standing in the following units:
Students would normally apply through UAC and enter via achievement of minimal UAI ranking. International applicants should contact UWS International for details on admission. Contact information for the International Office is available via the UWS website: http://sites.uws.edu.au/international
Qualification for this award requires the successful completion of 240 credit points including the units listed in the recommended sequence below.
Full-time
Year 1
Autumn session
Nursing for Health and Wellbeing
This unit introduces the student to nursing concepts, principles and skills that identify, promote, maintain and support health and wellbeing across the lifespan.
Understanding Good Health
This unit introduces the student to concepts and mechanisms involved in normal body functions and the maintenance of normal activities of living that inform professional nursing practice.
Behavioural Foundations of Nursing Practice
This unit introduces the student to psycho-social concepts and principles that underpin human behaviour and inform professional nursing practice.
Becoming a Nurse
This unit introduces the student to the basic constructs that form professional nursing and nursing practice.
Spring session
Nursing and Health Breakdown
This unit introduces students to professional nursing concepts and practices that promote, maintain and support people who are affected by health breakdown.
Introduction to Health Breakdown
This unit introduces students to the concepts and mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice.
Nursing and Healthy Communities
This unit introduces the student to psychosocial concepts and principles that promote and sustain the health of communities and informs professional nursing practice.
Knowing Nursing
This unit introduces students to further constructs that inform professional nursing and nursing practice related to health breakdown.
Year 2
Autumn session
Medical-Surgical Nursing 1
This unit will elaborate on professional nursing concepts and practices that promote, maintain and support people who are experiencing health breakdown affecting eating, drinking, nutrition and elimination.
Alterations in Nutrition, Elimination and Sexuality
This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected by alteration in eating, drinking, nutrition, elimination and sexuality.
Evidence-Based Nursing 1
This unit explores concepts related to 400755 Evidence Based Nursing, which will further develop student understanding of the significance of scholarship, research and the research processes and how these may inform professional nursing knowledge and practice.
Family Health Care: Health Issues and Australian Indigenous People
This unit provides the student with opportunities to investigate and discuss health issues as they relate to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.
Spring session
Medical-Surgical Nursing 2
This unit will elaborate on professional nursing concepts and practices that promote, maintain and support people who are experiencing health breakdown affecting breathing, work/leisure, sexuality and mobility.
Alterations in Breathing, Work/Leisure and Mobility
This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected by alteration in breathing, work/leisure, sexuality and mobility.
Mental Health Nursing 1
This unit will extend the student’s understanding of the relationships between stress, adaptation, mental health and the person’s capacity to function in everyday life and the implications for professional nursing practice.
Family Health Care: Child and Adolescent Nursing
This unit explores physical, social, political and community issues which impact on the health of children, adolescents and families. The knowledge gained will be appropriate for working with children and families within a hospital or community setting. The promotion of health and prevention of illness underpines this unit.
Year 3
Autumn session
Family Health Care: High Acuity Nursing
This unit will elaborate and consolidate mechanisms of health breakdown and complex nursing concepts and professional nursing practices that promote, maintain and support health and wellness. The focus is on providing professional nursing care of people who are experiencing acute, profound physiological, psychosocial and spiritual health breakdown.
Mental Health Nursing 2
This unit will elaborate the mechanisms of health breakdown and their application to professional nursing practice in supporting people who are affected by serious mental health breakdown.
Family Health Care: Chronicity and Palliative Care Nursing
This unit engages students in the assessment, planning, implementation and evaluation of professional nursing care for those individuals and their families living with a chronic illness and those dying from a life threatening illness.
And one elective
Spring session
Transition to Graduate Practice
This unit explores the transition to graduate practice from undergraduate nursing student to graduate professional registered nurse focusing on the role, responsibilities, accountabilities and options for the registered nurse.
Evidence-Based Nursing 2
This unit consolidates and assists student's synthesis of the major methodological approaches to support evidence-based practice, the process of research/inquiry and their application in the development of a defensible and justifiable nursing research project.
Leadership in Graduate Practice
This unit introduces the student to the role of the professional nurse as leader and manager.
Family Health Care: Older Adult Nursing
The health and wellbeing of older people reflect their genetic inheritance, the environment, lifestyle choices and a complex set of developmental experiences upon which individuals, groups and socio-political influences have impinged. Nevertheless, being or becoming 'old' is only one part of a person's life experience. Thus, in order to understand 'being old', we need to have knowledge of such influences and experiences. By promoting the health and therefore the potential of people, nurses have the opportunity to be in the forefront of health care. This opportunity places nurses in a position to intervene therapeutically in the lives and upon the lifestyles of older people by working with individuals and groups to facilitate healthy aging and by promoting positive attitudes towards ageing and older people.