Understand your nursing study decisions.
What do you need to decide before you enrol?
- What work do I want to do?
Explore work and study pathways - How will study fit my week?
How do I plan work and care around placement? - What will I learn?
How many units will I study? - What should I budget for?
What should I compare before choosing a nursing course? - What else must I check?
Check clinical placement requirements - How do I compare providers?
Compare provider records
Fifty sourced guides to clinical learning, registration and the core curriculum.
Registration and planning
- What is HLT54121 Diploma of Nursing?
- Is HLT54121 current?
- How many units will I study?
- How are the five electives chosen?
- Are there national entry requirements?
- Does graduation automatically register me as a nurse?
- How do I check program approval?
- Are RTO scope and nursing approval the same?
- How is an enrolled nurse different from a registered nurse?
- Will admission English checks cover registration English?
- Which English test rules should I use?
- Do all nursing applicants have to take an English test?
- What suitability checks apply to registration?
- What changed in criminal history requirements?
- Can a health condition stop me from studying nursing?
- What is student registration?
- When should I prepare my graduate application?
- Can I work as an EN while registration is pending?
- Can enrolled nurses give medicines?
- Can I move interstate after nursing study?
- Will this diploma give me credit toward an RN degree?
- Does nursing study guarantee a job or visa?
- What should I compare before choosing a nursing course?
Placement and assessment
Core learning
- How will I learn to care for people from different backgrounds?
- What will I learn about cultural safety?
- How will I learn from feedback?
- Will I learn about the human body?
- How will I use patient health information?
- How will I understand the health care team?
- Will I practise nursing communication?
- Will I learn to help plan care?
- How will I learn to check whether care is helping?
- Does the diploma include wound care learning?
- What medicines learning is included?
- Will I learn about consent and professional duties?
- Does the course cover mental health nursing?
- Will I learn about acute care?
- Will I learn to support people with long-term conditions?
- Does nursing study include care of older people?
- Will I learn about care outside hospital wards?
- How does the course prepare me for end-of-life care?
- How will I learn infection prevention?
- How will I learn to keep myself and patients safe?
Read provider records and dated source citations
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