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Minimum English language proficiency requirements

The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) require that all applicants demonstrate their English language proficiency. Please refer to this website for more information: .

Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 3c – Schedule II of the JCU Admissions Policy.

The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia requires all applicants seeking initial admission to the Nursing Register upon graduation from their nursing course,  to demonstrate the necessary English language skills. See their website at:

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: /professional-experience-placement/preparation-checklists

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course, the graduate will be able to:

1. Employ critical thinking and the best available evidence in making decisions that guide safe, quality nursing practice within person-centred,  evidence-based and cultural safety frameworks
2. Establish and maintain effective therapeutic and professional relationships and advocate for others in a context of healthcare and based on mutual trust, respect and collegial partnerships
3. Critically appraise own nursing practice to ensure they are safe, capable practitioners, who conduct ongoing self-management and respond to concerns about other health professionals’ capability for practice
4. Demonstrate responsibility and accountability 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
5. Conduct comprehensive and systematic assessments, including the analysis of information, data and outcomes as the basis for practice
6. Collaboratively plan, administer, document and effectively communicate quality nursing practice based on the appraisal of comprehensive, relevant information and evidence
7. Administer, or as appropriate delegate, quality and ethical goal-directed care based on synthesis of comprehensive and systematic assessment data, and the best available evidence, to achieve planned and agreed outcomes
8. Critically evaluate practice based on agreed priorities, goals, plans and outcomes and revise practice accordingly.

Maximum time to complete

7 years

Maximum allowed

48 credit points

Expiry

Credit gained for any subject shall be cancelled 12 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.

Approved abbreviation

BNSc

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.

Students who have completed 48 credit points of their professional 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 Associate Degree of Health Sciences.

Eligibility