C10123v5 Bachelor of Nursing Bachelor of Arts in International Studies

Overview

The Bachelor of Nursing Bachelor of Arts in International Studies combines a professional nursing degree with immersion in another language and culture, enhancing professional training and career options.

The course produces nurses with specific skills in their chosen language and culture, and makes them more aware of the need for intercultural sensitivities, not only through studying another language and culture, but also by living in another society for a period of time.

Career options

Career options include registered nurse in a specialty such as critical care, intensive care, mental health, operating theatre or paediatrics, or nurse educator, nurse manager, nurse practitioner or remote and rural practice nurse. Career options are enhanced by international experience, making students more marketable to prospective employers.

Admission requirements

Assumed knowledge

Any two units of English (Nursing component). There are no prior language requirements (International Studies component).

Any two units of science and any two units of mathematics are recommended (Nursing component).

External articulation

UTS offers an accelerated Bachelor of Nursing program to students who have completed the TAFE Certificate IV in Enrolled Nursing, and to students who have completed a degree in another discipline within the past seven years. Enrolled nurses receive 36 credit points of exemption and graduates receive 30 credit points of exemption. Applicants must have completed their qualification by December of the previous year to be eligible for the accelerated program. Spaces are limited in these accelerated programs and offers are based on competition.

Course duration and attendance

The course duration is five years of full-time study. Students spend their fourth year of study at a university overseas.

Course structure

Industrial training/professional practice

The Bachelor of Nursing includes extensive clinical practice, which is a compulsory component of the course, commencing in the first semester. Students may be required to complete clinical practice during the semester break period.

Course completion requirements

Course program

Honours

Professional recognition

Nurses and Midwives Board, New South Wales

Other information

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