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Admission to the Bachelor of Nursing is based on the assessment of a student's results in the Victorian Certificate of Education (or equivalent) including the prerequisite subjects - English and mathematics. All applicants must apply through the Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre (VTAC). An articulation pathway exists with the Victorian TAFE Certificate IV in Health (Nursing) whereby successful applicants receive credit for 50% (24 credit points) for the first year of the course.
Admission to all other nursing courses is available by direct entry only. Information about tertiary entrance requirements, prerequisites for admission, and about the possibility of mid-year entry may be obtained from the nursing administration offices on each campus.
Under
special circumstances students may seek deferment once and for up to one year
prior to commencing their nursing course. Information about deferment may be
obtained from the School of Nursing administration offices, Gippsland and
Peninsula.
Note that deferment is not permitted from the courses offered by the Centre for
Graduate Studies in Clinical Nursing.
Students
should be familiar with the Student resource guide for details of
selection, international student selection procedures, full-fee courses for
international and local students, enrolments, re-enrolment, change of course,
examinations and other procedures.
Students are expected to read and understand the degree regulations and to
ensure that the course they choose is in accordance with these regulations
which are reproduced in this handbook.
A major responsibility of all students is to ensure that all information held
by student administration, especially names and addresses, is accurate. The
university does not accept responsibility if official communications fail to
reach a student who has not provided notification of a change of mailing address.
Students are advised that, while the faculty will endeavour to give every possible assistance and advice concerning subject choice, the onus is on the student to ensure that the subjects selected meet the course regulations and requirements. This is not the faculty's responsibility and the faculty does not take any responsibility for error in subject selection.
Credit
may be awarded towards nursing degrees at Monash for subjects passed in
completed or incomplete tertiary studies, provided that the course coordinator
is satisfied that the subjects for which credit is sought were substantially
the same in content, level, weight, contact hours and standard of assessment as
those subjects from which exemption is sought.
The onus is upon the student to provide to the relevant course coordinator or
administrative officer on each campus full documentation concerning previous
studies for which credit is sought together with an academic transcript of
results. This should be in the form of handbook subject entries and those
sections of the handbook setting out course structure; in some cases course
outlines handed out in lectures may provide the same information. This should
preferably be done with the initial application for admission or, at the
latest, at the time of enrolment. The minimum information required is number of
years in course, level of subjects in course, subject content, textbooks and
results, number of contact hours, laboratory sessions and so on per week,
credit weighting of subject (number and length of assignments, number and
length of examinations etc.).
Credit entitlement is determined in the first instance by the course
coordinator on each campus and approved by the head of school or centre
director. The credit granted is formally noted by the relevant faculty
committee at the earliest opportunity.
Irrespective of what study applicants may have undertaken prior to admission, or may be permitted to take during their course under cross-campus arrangements or under 'permission to take work elsewhere' regulations, it is the policy of the faculty that a certain amount of work must be completed at Monash University. See course regulations for details.
The faculty believes that full-time enrolment for undergraduate students is generally in the best interests of its students, but is well aware of the variety of circumstances which may oblige a student to take a reduced load. Part-time enrolment is allowed, provided the student is aware of the maximum time limit for degree completion stated in the regulations for the relevant course.
Where
circumstances arise which oblige students to discontinue their studies for a
time, leave of absence may be sought for one semester or one year at a time
(but not more).
Information about the appropriate steps to be taken is available from the
faculty's administration offices on each campus. Students should remember that
periods granted as leave of absence are counted as part of their total time
limit.
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