Overview 2020
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Six full-time semesters across two years allow you to fast track your way into the workforce as a registered nurse.
You will study on our Darlinghurst campus, where you will be supported by a well-equipped simulated learning environment. During the course you'll also be given the opportunity to undertake work placements in both rural and metropolitan healthcare facilities. You will develop the knowledge and skills – and perhaps most importantly, the attitude – needed to offer the highest quality health care. You will learn the best practices for the provision of patient-centred care, safety and quality in practice, and research and evidence based practice in nursing.
The two year fast-track Bachelor of Nursing course is offered through the Darlinghurst campus in partnership with St Vincent’s Health Australia, the largest non-government, non-profit health care provider in Australia. St Vincent’s Health Australia recognise the value of nursing in health care delivery, and are committed to nursing education.
Bachelor of Nursing Fast Track courses are also offered at our Rozelle and Hobart campuses for eligible students. Please note the Fast Track courses are non-transferable.
Campus Information
Darlinghurst Campus – 1 Leichhardt Street, Darlinghurst NSW
The University of Tasmania's Darlinghurst campus is co-located on the site of St Vincent's Hospital, a premier teaching facility, Australia's second oldest hospital and a major public and principal referral hospital. They specialise in heart/lung transplantation, bone marrow transplantation, cardiology, cancer, HIV medicine, respiratory medicine, mental health as well as drug and alcohol services.
Students studying at the Darlinghurst campus have access to the St Vincent's Hospital Library, and IT services are available onsite at the University campus.
Course objectives
Graduates of the Bachelor of Nursing will
- Practice consistently in accordance with the Registered Nurse standards for practice.
- Demonstrate the consistent, effective and coherent application of consolidated, synthesised knowledge and skills to contextualised, complex, simulated and clinical situations.
- Demonstrate effective application of clinical reasoning through the consistent and coherent application of consolidated, synthesised knowledge and skills and a developing ability to assess, analyse, problem solve, adapt and act effectively in unpredictable and complex clinical situations.
- Demonstrate consistent critical self-reflection and responsibility that indicates an active commitment to practice improvement and life-long learning
- Demonstrate autonomy, initiative and well developed clinical judgement in diverse clinical situations.
- Communicate effectively, drawing on an appropriate evidence base, in order to transmit knowledge, ideas and skills to others including patients, clients, residents and their families, peers and members of the health care team.
- Demonstrate the ability to practice collaboratively and effectively as a member of the health care team.
- Consistently demonstrate cultural competence.
Practical experience
During this course, you will participate in Professional Experience Placements (PEP). This work integrated learning approach enables students to practice skills, behaviours and knowledge in a workplace environment. The aim of PEP is to immerse students in a professional healthcare setting, to gain a better understanding of the roles of professionals within the health care system.
Our Darlinghurst campus partnership with St Vincent’s Health Australia mean you will be receiving the best work placements in world class healthcare and teaching facilities. Here, you will meet and learn from the health professionals who you will one day work beside.
"My highlight of studying at the University of Tasmania would definitely be the professional relationships that I’ve built with hospitals in Sydney while studying."
Career outcomes
The Bachelor of Nursing (Fast Track) helped me achieve my career goals by providing both theoretical and practical grounding in the nursing profession, enhanced by its cobranding with St Vincent’s Hospital
On graduation, you will be eligible to apply for registration as a nurse, and ready to begin an exciting career. Nurses make up the largest health professional group in the world, and a nursing career offers varied opportunities in many healthcare settings and areas such as acute care, addiction, child and family health, community, emergency, mental health, midwifery, oncology – just to name a few.
For those who wish to specialise in a particular field, postgraduate study opportunities are also available.
Course structure
Entry requirements
Fees & scholarships
Domestic students
Scholarships
For information on general scholarships available at the University of Tasmania, please visit the scholarships website.
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- +61 3 6226 6200
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