Bachelor of Nursing Science [Indigenous Health Careers Program]
Information valid for students commencing in 2020.
Bachelor of Nursing Science [Indigenous Health Careers Program]
Handbook year | 2020 |
Course code | 118010 |
Course type | Bachelor Degree (AQF Level 7) |
Division | Tropical Health and Medicine |
Award Requirements
Admission Requirements
Course pre-requisites | English Recommended: Biology, Chemistry and any Maths |
Minimum English language proficiency requirements | Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 3c – Schedule II of the 番茄社区 Admissions Policy. |
Special admission requirements | Nominate with QTAC as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Students are encouraged to undertake the UniPrep course if they have not studied recently and/or want assistance making the transition to University studies. |
Course includes mandatory professional placement(s) | Clinical placement/professional practice: This course includes prescribed professional or clinical placements. Students will be required to undertake such placements away from the campus at which they are enrolled, at their own expense (Note: health professional courses generally involve extensive professional or clinical placements). Further information about placements can be found at Coursework Enrolment Procedure. |
Post admission requirements | This course may have specific admission requirements such as immunisation, a Suitability to Work with Children Card, a federal police check and/or other conditions that students must comply with. Students must complete all professional experience placement requirements by the prescribed deadlines and maintain currency of these requirements in order to stay admitted in the course. You will find your course requirements here: |
Academic Requirements for Course Completion
Credit points | 84 credit points |
Course learning outcomes | On successful completion of the course, the graduate will be able to: In collaboration with other health care professionals: - Employ critical thinking and the best available evidence in making decisions that guide safe, quality nursing practice within person-centred and evidence-based frameworks. - Purposefully engage in effective therapeutic and professional relationships based on collegial generosity in a context of mutual trust and respect. - Demonstrate accountability for ensuring they are safe, capable practitioners, including ongoing self-management and responding to concerns about other health professionals’ capability for practice. - Accept responsibility for their professional development and contribute to the development of others, including the provision of information and education that enable people to make decisions and take action in relation to their health. - Accurately conduct comprehensive and systematic assessments, including the analysis of information, data and outcomes as the basis for practice. - Collaboratively plan, administer, document and effectively communicate quality nursing practice based on the appraisal of comprehensive, relevant information and evidence. - Administer, or as appropriate delegate, quality and ethical goal-directed care based on comprehensive and systematic assessment, and the best available evidence, to achieve planned and agreed outcomes. - Take responsibility for the evaluation of practice based on agreed priorities, goals, plans and outcomes and revise practice accordingly. |
Inherent Requirements
Inherent Requirements | Inherent requirements are the fundamental abilities, attributes, skills and behaviours needed to complete the learning outcomes of a course while preserving the academic integrity of the university’s learning, assessment and accreditation processes. Students and prospective students must be able to demonstrate that they have acquired or have the ability to acquire the inherent requirements for their degree. For more information refer to Inherent Requirements page. |
Reasonable adjustments | Reasonable adjustments may be made to assist students manage additional circumstances impacting on their studies provided these do not change the academic integrity of a degree. Reasonable adjustments do not alter the need to be able to demonstrate the inherent requirements of the course. |
Course Structure
CORE SUBJECTS
Level 1 (Year 1)
Teaching Period 1 (First Half Year)
:03 Effective Writing
:03 Developing Academic Skills
:03 Communication for Nursing and Midwifery
Teaching Period 2 (Second Half Year)
:03 Health and Health Care in Australia
:03 Essential Maths
:03 Learning in a digital environment or :03 Essential Science
Level 1 (Year 2)
Teaching Period 1 (First Half Year)
:03 Physiological Systems and Processes 1
:03 Introduction to the Professions
:03 Nursing Practice 1
Teaching Period 2 (Second Half Year)
:03 Physiological Systems and Processes 2
:03 Nursing Practice 2
:03 Law and Ethics for Nursing and Midwifery
Level 2 (Year 3)
Teaching Period 1 (First Half Year)
:03 The Professional Role
:06 Nursing Practice 3
OPTIONS
Select :03 Rural and Remote Nursing or :03 Specialisation Project or 3 credit points of any undergraduate subject
Teaching Period 2 (Second Half Year)
:03 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health and Wellbeing
:03 Inclusive Practice
:06 Nursing Practice 4
Level 3 (Year 4)
Teaching Period 1 (First Half Year)
:03 Mental Health for Nursing and Midwifery
:03 Consolidating Practice
:06 Nursing Practice 5
Teaching Period 2 (Second Half Year)
:03 Transition to Practice
:09 Nursing Practice 6
Campus
COURSE AVAILABLE AT | NOTES |
Cairns | |
Townsville |
Candidature
Expected time to complete | 4 years full-time or 8 years part-time |
Maximum time to complete | 9 years |
Maximum leave of absence | 1 year |
Progression
Course progression requisites | Nil |
Course includes mandatory professional placement(s) | Clinical placement/professional practice: This course includes prescribed professional or clinical placements. Students will be required to undertake such placements away from the campus at which they are enrolled, at their own expense (Note: health professional courses generally involve extensive professional or clinical placements). Further information about placements can be found at Coursework Enrolment Procedure. |
Special assessment requirements | Refer to Review of a Student’s Suitability to Continue a Course Involving Placement policy. |
Accreditation requirements | Nil |
Maximum allowed Pass Conceded (PC) grade | Nil |
Supplementary exam for final subject | Supplementary examinations are available, subject to current College and Division policies. |
Credit
Eligibility | Students may apply for a credit transfer for previous tertiary study or informal and non-formal learning in accordance with the Credit Transfer Procedure. |
Maximum allowed | 6 credit points |
Currency | Credit will be granted only for studies completed in the 5 years prior to the commencement of this course. |
Expiry | Credit gained for any subject shall be cancelled 14 years after the date of the examination upon which the credit is based if, by then, the student has not completed the course of study prescribed for the degree. |
Other restrictions | Not applicable |
Award Details
Award title | BACHELOR OF NURSING SCIENCE |
Approved abbreviation | BNSc |
Inclusion of majors on testamur | Not applicable – this course does not have majors |
Exit with lesser award | Students who have completed 24 credit points of their course award requirements, and withdraw from or fail to meet the requirements for progression in the later years, may be eligible for the award of Diploma of Tertiary Studies. |
Course articulation | Not applicable |
Honours
Honours availability | Available as an additional 24 credit points of study [end-on] |
Eligibility | Achievement of an overall grade point average of 5.0 (i.e. credit average) across the final three years of the bachelor degree; and current registration as a nurse (Division 1) with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency. Application for entry to the Honours program is by approval of the College Dean. |