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Bachelor of Nursing - Graduate Diploma of Clinical Practice (Paramedic)

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This is a combined course and to complete the course students must successfully complete 32 subjects and will graduate with the Bachelor of Nursing,Graduate Diploma of Clinical Practice (Paramedic).  Students can transfer and exit after completion of 192 points with the Bachelor of Nursing.

Bachelor of Nursing

BMS191 Human Bioscience 1
BMS192 Human Bioscience 2 (Key Subject)
BMS291 Pathophysiology & Pharmacology 1
BMS292 Pathophsiology & Pharmacology 2
NRS191 Primary Health Care Nursing 1: Health Promotion and Education
NRS192 Primary Health Care Nursing 2: Fundamentals of Nursing Practice (Key Subject)
NRS193 Disipline of Nursing 1: Contexts of Nursing
NRS194 Indigenous Culture, Health and Nursing
NRS195 Psychosocial Nursing
NRS291 Health Challenges 1: Nursing Interventions and Rehabilitation (Key Subject)
NRS292 Health Challenges 2: Nursing Interventions and Rehabilitation
NRS293 Clinical Nursing Practice 1 (Key Subject)
NRS294 Clinical Nursing Practice 2 (Key Subject)
NRS295 Discipline of Nursing 2: Health, Law and Ethics
NRS296 Discipline of Nursing 3: Inquiry and Research
NRS375 Health Optimisation 1: Gerontic Nursing Care
NRS376 Health Optimisation 2: Mental Health Nursing
NRS377 Health Optimisation 3: Chronic and Complex Nursing Care
NRS378 Health Optimisation 4: Family, Community and Rural Health Nursing
NRS379 Discipline of Nursing 4: Transition to Professional Nursing Practice
NRS381 Clinical Nursing Practice 3
NRS382 Clinical Nursing Practice 4
PSY214 Health Psychology
SOC108 Sociology of Health and Health Care

Key Subjects

NRS192 Primary Health Care Nursing 2: Fundamentals of Nursing Practice
BMS192 Human Bioscience 2
NRS293 Clinical Nursing Practice 1
NRS294 Clinical Nursing Practice 2
NRS381 Clinical Nursing Practice 3
NRS382 Clinical Nursing Practice 4

Graduate Diploma of Clinical Practice (Paramedic)

The course will consist of 64 credits points consisting of:
APS401 Prehospital Pharmacology
CLS400 Advanced Paramedic Medical Emergencies
CLS411 Paramedic Internship *
CLS412 Introduction To Internship **
CLS410 Major Incident Management
PHC401 Paediatrics for Pre-hospital Care
PHC404 Paramedic Systems
PHC410 Paramedicine as a Discipline

* Internships must be completed in an approved out-of-hospital setting such as a statutory ambulance authority. Students undertaking the internships must satisfy the risk assessment requirements of the relevant ambulance authority.

** This subject has a 5 day residential school.

Enrolment pattern

Bachelor of Nursing

Session 1
BMS191 Human Bioscience 1
NRS191 Primary Health Care Nursing 1: Health Promotion and Education
NRS193 Discipline of Nursing 1: Contexts of Nursing
SOC108 Sociology of Health and Health Care

Session 2
BMS192 Human Bioscience 2
NRS192 Primary Health Care Nursing 2: Fundamentals of Nursing Practice
NRS194 Indigenous Culture, Health and Nursing
NRS195 Psychosocial Nursing

Session 3
BMS291 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 1
NRS291 Health Challenges 1: Nursing Interventions and Rehabilitation
NRS293 Clinical Nursing Practice 1
NRS295 Discipline of Nursing 2: Health, Law and Ethics

Session 4
BMS292 Pathophysiology and Pharmacology 2
NRS292 Health Challenges 2: Nursing Interventions and Rehabilitation
NRS294 Clinical Nursing Practice 2
NRS296 Discipline of Nursing 3: Inquiry and Research

Session 5
NRS375 Health Optimisation 1: Gerontic Nursing Care
NRS376 Health Optimisation 2: Mental Health Nursing
NRS381 Clinical Nursing Practice 3
PSY214 Health Psychology

Session 6
NRS377 Health Optimisation 3: Chronic and Complex Nursing Care
NRS378 Health Optimisation 4: Family, Community and Rural Nursing
NRS379 Discipline of Nursing 4: Transition to Professional Nursing Practice
NRS382 Clinical Nursing Practice 4

Students can exit with the Bachelor of Nursing

Graduate Diploma in Clinical Practice (Paramedic)

Session 7
PHC404 Paramedic Systems
CLS410 Major Incident Management

Session 8
APS401 Prehospital Pharmacology
PHC401 Paediatrics for Pre-hospital Care

Session 9
CLS412 Introduction To Internship
CLS400 Advanced Paramedic Medical Emergencies

Session 10
CLS411 Paramedic Internship
PHC410 Paramedicine as a Discipline

Professional recognition

This course consists of two courses that are linked through a program code.  The Bachelor of Nursing is accredited through the ANMAC and the Graduate Diploma of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) is currently undergoing accreditation with the Australiasian Council of Ambulance Authorities Inc.

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Consider also:

  • Bachelor of Clinical Practice (Paramedic)
  • Bachelor of Nursing

Follow on study:

  • Master of Nursing
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Intensive Care Paramedic Studies
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Paramedic Service Leadership and Management
Bachelor of Nursing - Graduate Diploma of Clinical Practice (Paramedic) Allied Health; Nursing Undergraduate On campus Bathurst NO Active Science Session 1 5 years (3 years full-time then 2 years part-time study) 5F

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