Professional practice

Students enrolled in the Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) will undertake mandated clinical placement hours across the four years of their course, referred to as professional practice placements. Professional practice placements will commence in the second semester of the first year of the course and are undertaken within a variety of hospital, residential, community and telehealth settings. Students will be allocated a health-service partner which they will have the opportunity to preference at the beginning of the course. Students will undertake all/most clinical placements within that health service across the variety of hospital, outpatient, community and virtual services they offer. Students are required to travel across the Perth metropolitan area to attend professional practice placements. Regional students will be required to travel across their region to attend professional practice placement (travel and accommodation support may be available). Professional practice placement requires students to undertake shift work across a 24-hour period (i.e. morning, afternoon and night shifts), on weekends and public holidays. Students are also expected to undertake a rural or remote professional practice placement within WA in the second or third year of their program. Extended rural/remote and international professional practice placements will be available to students who wish to engage with these professional opportunities. 

Professional practice requirements

Professional practice requirements are a series of clearances, vaccinations, screening and training to be completed prior to attending a professional practice placement. Some of which you will be required to provide when you enrol in the course. You will be sent information about these requirements and submission process. The remainder you will be required to submit as part of your course assessment tasks. These requirements are mandated by health services and must be maintained throughout the course or you will be not be able to attend professional practice placement and therefore will not be able to meet the assessment requirements of your course. The requirements and frequency they are required is detailed in the table below.

Table 1: Professional practice requirements

Incidental fees

Uniform policy

Student registration 

Inherent requirements

To ensure safety of the public and support your decision making about your suitability for the course, a series of inherent requirements are detailed in the Department of Nursing Inherent Requirements Policy . The inherent requirement statements specify the requirements for student admission and progression in the Bachelor of Nursing (Honours). These inherent requirements should be read in conjunction with other course information and Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) publications such as Guidelines for Mandatory Notifications, A Nurse’s Guide to Professional Boundaries and Registered Nurse Standards for Practice. 

You will be required to acknowledge that you meet these inherent requirements as part of the application process, and then each time you enrol in a professional practice unit. If you experience challenges in meeting these requirements because of a disability, chronic health condition or any other reason, you should discuss your concerns with the Course Director in the first instance. The university can assist you with a plan for reasonable adjustments to support you to meet the inherent requirements where possible, in consultation with the Course Director. 

Entry pathways

Successful completion of an AQF Certificate IV in the following:

• 52895WA Certificate IV in Preparation for Health and Nursing Studies

• HLT41120 Certificate IV in Health Care 

• CHC43015 Certificate IV in Ageing Support 

• HLT43021 Certificate IV in Allied Health Assistance 

• CHC43315 Certificate IV in Mental Health 

• CHC43415 Certificate IV in Leisure and Health 

• CHC43215 Certificate IV in Alcohol and Other Drugs 

• CHC43121 Certificate IV in Disability 

• CHC40421 Certificate IV in Youth Work 

• HLT40213 Certificate IV in Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Primary Health Care Practice 

• HLT46015 Certificate IV in Population Health 

• HLT46115 Certificate IV in Indigenous Environmental Health

OR

ATAR of 70 (adjustments may apply to rural/remote students)

OR

Indigenous entry pathways, visit our study indigenous page

Both high school leavers and TAFE Cert IV applicants can apply through TISC.