HLT54121 Diploma of Nursing
Discover your calling as an enrolled nurse.
Embrace your caring nature in a rewarding career where no two days are ever the same.
The Diploma of Nursing provides you with the skills to assist in the provision of preventative, curative and rehabilitative nursing. Upon successful completion, you are eligible to be registered as an enrolled nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.
This course remains FEE FREE in 2024! The course fees are 100 per cent subsidised by the WA State Government for WA residents.
Some eligibility conditions apply for the free training, and other fees may apply for some courses. Please see the FAQs on our Skills Ready page(opens in a new tab) for further information.
Students residing in the North West are eligible to receive a stipend from the state government to assist with the cost of clinical placement (conditions apply).
Expressions of interest are currently being taken for future intakes (via the course enquiry form at the bottom of this web page).
This course remains FEE FREE in 2024! The course fees are 100 per cent subsidised by the WA State Government for WA residents.
Some eligibility conditions apply for the free training, and other fees may apply for some courses. Please see the FAQs on our Skills Ready page for further information.
CampusesPundulmurra Campus.
When Semester 1, 2024.
Study Mode Combined (Online and On Campus).
Enrolled Nurses have varied and deeply fulfilling career options. Enrolled Nurses have the ability to influence and impact the lives of people and communities.
North Regional TAFE’s Diploma of Nursing will provide you with the knowledge and skills to be employed as an Enrolled Nurse in the many work settings here in the Kimberley and Pilbara.
Our content is current and evidence-based, and our simulation facilities are state-of-the-art making sure that you are industry-ready when you graduate.
Employment prospects are high in industry, and areas of work could be in hospitals, community health services, private homes (home care), residential care (care homes), outpatient clinics, medical practices and pathology providers.
Students will gain skills in:
- Communication
- Clinical assessment, nursing, planning and implementation
- Cultural sensitivity
- Applying evidence-based practice
- Medication management
- Caring for acute and chronic health conditions
- Diabetes treatment and care
- End-of-life and palliative nursing practices
- Stress management
- Contingency management of acute and chronic situations
This course is generally completed over 18 months (which is three (3) semesters). Students will study via blended learning (this is a combination of on-campus, online, simulation on-site, clinical work placements and self-directed study).
Simulation weeks:
- Students complete two (2) separate simulation weeks on-site at Pundulmurra campus each semester
- Students integrate theory components of their learning with the application of clinical skills
Clinical work placement:
- Students undertake a minimum of 400 unpaid clinical work placement hours with NR TAFE clinical placement agencies located all over WA
- Placements are full time and are scheduled for 1 to 3 weeks at a time
- Students are required to carry out shift work which is a combination of morning, afternoon and night shifts, including weekends and public holidays
Our Pundulmurra campus in South Hedland is home to the state-of-the-art Health and Community Services Training Centre. This facility encompasses a simulation wing incorporating an eight-bed hospital ward, nurse’s station, patient examination and treatment rooms, pan room, fit testing room, training classrooms and a viewing area for lecturer observation.
You will have additional costs associated with your study when enrolling in the Diploma of Nursing which include:
- Purchase of textbooks, uniform (Scrub Top and Pants) and closed in slip resistant shoes. Details of these will be provided during orientation week
- Completion of a health check
- Provide evidence of vaccinations
- Working with Children Check (WWC)
- National Police Certificate - through WA Police website only
- WA Health Department Criminal History Record Check (no cost if applied for post-Police Certificate)
- NDIS Worker Screening Check via NR TAFE (only for successful applicants)
You will also be required to:
- Travel to NR TAFE Pundulmurra Campus to attend simulation training and nursing calculation exams
- Travel to NR TAFE clinical placement agencies to complete 400 hours of clinical placement
- Attend clinical placement across a seven (7) day week, which may include weekends and public holidays
- Carry out shift work including a combination of morning, afternoon and night shifts
To protect the public from harm, registered health practitioners and education providers must report concerns about registered students. This is a legal requirement. Practitioners and education providers only need to notify Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) when they have a 'reasonable belief' that a student has an impairment that, when undertaking clinical training, may place the public at substantial risk of harm.
The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) Enrolled Nurse Accreditation Standards 2017 also require Registered Training Organisations (RTOs) delivering HLT54121 Diploma of Nursing to notify AHPRA of any student undertaking clinical training who has been identified as having an impairment that may place the public at substantial risk of harm. AHPRA will be advised of the names of all students undertaking the Diploma of Nursing.
Upon completion of the course and a minimum of 400 hours of work placement, graduates will need to seek registration with AHPRA to work as an enrolled nurse, or to enrol in further study to become a registered nurse. The Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) has developed core registration standards that define the requirements that applicants, registrants or students.
NMBA states that with the exception of registered students and non-practising registrants, these standards apply to applicants for registration and currently registered nurses and midwives.
- Criminal history registration standard
- English language skills registration standard
- Registration standard: continuing professional development
- Registration standard: recency of practice
- Registration standard: professional indemnity insurance arrangements