Nursing clinical ladder 2011
This clinical ladder applies to students in the Bachelor of Nursing (C10122) and the Bachelor of Nursing Bachelor of Arts in International Studies (C10123). Students should be familiar with the faculty's applicable clinical placement rules.
Autumn semester
| Semester week | Date | Month | Key events | Standard | Accelerated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First year | Second year | Third year | GE | EN1 | EN2 | ||||
| 21 | February | T | |||||||
| 1 | 28 | T | T | T | T | T | T | ||
| 2 | 7 | March | T | T | T | T | T | T | |
| 3 | 14 | T | T | Block 1 | T | T | T | ||
| 4 | 21 | T | T | T | T | T | |||
| 5 | 28 | T | Block 1 | T | T | Block 1 | Block 1 | ||
| 6 | 4 | April | T | T | |||||
| 7 | 11 | T | T | T | Block 1 | T | T | ||
| 8 | 18 | PH Friday | SIM | Block 2* | T | ||||
| VC | 25 | PH Monday | |||||||
| 9 | 2 | May | T | T | |||||
| 10 | 9 | T | T | Block 2 | T | T | T | ||
| 11 | 16 | T | T | T | T | T | |||
| 12 | 23 | T | T | T | T | T | |||
| 13 | 30 | Block 1 | T | T | T | T | T | ||
| 14 | 6 | June | Block 2 | T | T | T | T | T | |
| 13 | PH Monday | Examinations | |||||||
| 20 | Examinations | Block 3 | Examinations | ||||||
| 27 | Examinations | Examinations | |||||||
| 4 | July | Block 3 | Block 3 | Block 2 | Block 2 | Block 2 | |||
| 11 | Block 4 | Block 4 | |||||||
| 18 | Block 5 | Block 4 | Block 3 | Block 3 | |||||
| 25 | Block 6 | ||||||||
*The placement during this block will occur for two out of the three weeks allocated.
Spring semester
| Semester week | Date | Month | Key events | Standard | Accelerated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First year | Second year | Third year | GE | EN1 | EN2 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | August | T | T | T | T | T | T | |
| 2 | 8 | T | T | T | T | T | T | ||
| 3 | 15 | T | T | Block 1 | T | T | T | ||
| 4 | 22 | T | T | T | T | T | |||
| 5 | 29 | T | Block 1 | T | Block 1 | Block 1 | Block 1 | ||
| 6 | 5 | September | T | T | |||||
| 7 | 12 | T | T | T | Block 2 | ||||
| 8 | 19 | T | T | T | |||||
| VC | 26 | Block 2 | |||||||
| 9 | 3 | October | PH Monday | SIM | T | T | T | T | |
| 10 | 10 | T | Block 2 | T | T | T | |||
| 11 | 17 | T | T | T | T | T | |||
| 12 | 24 | T | T | T | T | T | |||
| 13 | 31 | Block 1 | T | T | T | T | T | ||
| 14 | 7 | November | T | T | T | T | T | ||
| 14 | Examinations | ||||||||
| 21 | Examinations | ||||||||
| 28 | Block 2 | Examinations | Block 2 | Examinations | |||||
| 5 | December | Block 3 | Block 2 | Block 3 | Block 2 | ||||
| 12 | Block 3 | ||||||||
| 19 | |||||||||
Summer session 2012
| Semester week | Date | Month | Key events | Standard | Accelerated | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First year | Second year | Third year | GE | EN1 | EN2 | ||||
| 9 | January | T | T | ||||||
| 16 | T | T | |||||||
| 23 | T | T | |||||||
| 30 | T | T | |||||||
| 6 | February | Block 3 | Block 4 | ||||||
| 13 | |||||||||
PH – Public holiday
Students must remain available for all clinical blocks identified for their year of study until notification is received from the Clinical Practice Unit; this includes make up placements.
Clinical placement schedules
Autumn semester
| Year | Clinical subject | Days | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| First year | ATCH1: Assessment in Therapeutics Health Care 1 | 5 | 40 |
| Second year | MSN: Medical Surgical Nursing | 10 | 80 |
| Second year | FCN: Family and Children's Nursing | 10 | 80 |
| Second year | NCOP: Nursing Care of the Older Person | 10 | 80 |
| Second year | FMHN: Foundations of Mental Health Nursing | 10 | 80 |
| Third year | Choice block: Clinical elective | 10 | 80 |
| Third year | PD1: Practice Development 1 | 15 | 120 |
| GE | MSN: Medical Surgical Nursing | 20 | 160 |
| EN1 | MSN: Medical Surgical Nursing | 10 | 80 |
| EN2 | MSN: Medical Surgical Nursing | 10 | 80 |
Spring semester
| Year | Clinical subject | Days | Hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| First year | ATCH2: Assessment in Therapeutics Health Care 2 | 10 | 80 |
| Second year | MSN: Medical Surgical Nursing | 10 | 80 |
| Second year | FCN: Family and Children's Nursing | 10 | 80 |
| Second year | NCOP: Nursing Care of the Older Person | 10 | 80 |
| Second year | FMHN: Foundations of Mental Health Nursing | 10 | 80 |
| Third year | PD2: Practice Development 2 | 10 | 80 |
| Third year | PD3: Practice Development 3 | 15 | 120 |
| GE | FMHN: Foundations of Mental Health Nursing | 20 | 160 |
| GE | NCOP: Nursing Care of the Older Person | 10 | 80 |
| EN1 | FCN: Family and Children's Nursing | 10 | 80 |
| EN1 | FMHN: Foundations of Mental Health Nursing | 10 | 80 |
| EN1 | NCOP: Nursing Care of the Older Person | 10 | 80 |
| EN2 | FCN: Family and Children's Nursing | 10 | 80 |
Based on a full-time schedule; this may vary for students studying part time.
Second-year students are required to complete two of the four clinical subjects listed above during Autumn semester with the remaining two clinical subjects to be completed during Spring semester.
