Diploma of Nursing - HLT54115
TAFE South Australia (TAFE SA)
Type of institution: TAFE Institute
Level: Vocational Education and Training (VET)
This qualification reflects the role of an enrolled nurse working under supervision of a registered nurse. This qualification covers the application of skills and knowledge required to provide nursing care for people across the health sector. A lifespan approach should underpin this qualification with relevant competencies that relate to the different stages of life identified within the units.
Structure
- 25 units: 20 core
- 5 elective
Subjects
- Implement and monitor care for a person with chronic health problems
- Perform clinical assessment and contribute to planning nursing care
- Apply principles of wound management in the clinical environment
- Manage personal stressors in the work environment
- Communicate and work in health or community services
- Lead team effectiveness
- Support the provision of basic nutrition advice and education
- Implement and monitor care for a person with mental health conditions
- Comply with infection prevention and control policies and procedures
- Work with diverse people
- Promote Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander cultural safety
- Visit client residence
- Develop work priorities
- Analyse and respond to client health information
- Confirm physical health status
- Implement and monitor care of the older person
- Contribute to nursing care of a person with complex needs
- Contribute to maternal and infant health care
- Implement, monitor and evaluate nursing care plans
- Implement and monitor care for a person with diabetes
- Apply a palliative approach in nursing practice
- Respond to client language, literacy and numeracy needs
- Implement and monitor care for a person with acute health problems
- Administer and monitor medicines and intravenous therapy
- Research and apply evidence to practice
- Follow safe work practices for direct client care
- Apply nursing practice in the primary health care setting
- Apply communication skills in nursing practice
- Inform and support patients and groups about oral health
- Provide advanced first aid
- Maintain work health and safety
- Plan, organise and facilitate learning in the workplace
- Apply legal and ethical parameters to nursing practice
- Provide or assist with oral hygiene
- Provide first aid
- Implement and monitor infection prevention and control policies and procedures
- Practise nursing within the Australian health care system
- Recognise and respond to oral health issues
- Apply and manage use of basic oral health products
- Reflect on and improve own professional practice
Further information
Before any clinical placements can commence, applicants will have to provide: a Doctor's certificate (to say you are fit to work as a nurse); evidence of commencement of Hepatitis B immunisation; a Senior First Aid Certificate valid for the duration of the program and a completed police check.
