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The University of Sydney sydney.edu.au Contact us Highlighting our sydney.edu.au/nursing achievements 1800 SYD UNI (1800 793 864) +61 2 8627 1444 (outside Australia) Sydney Nursing School Highlighting our achievements Sydney Nursing School Welcome Our vision, mission and values .... 2 The facts ................................... 3 A career in nursing ..................... 4 Why Sydney Nursing School ........ 5 Our history of leadership ........... 6 Pathways to nursing ................... 8 Contact us sydney.edu.au/nursing 1800 SYD 864) UNI 793 (1800 1444 (outside Australia) 2 8627 +61 Clinical simulation and placements ........................10 Our courses Bachelor of Nursing (Advanced Studies) ....................11 Post-registration Bachelor of Nursing (Singapore) ����������������11 Combined degrees ................... 12 Master of Nursing (Graduate Entry) ....................... 13 Advanced learning master’s programs .................... 14 How we stand out Scholarships and exchange ....... 17 Research .................................. 18 International collaborations ..... 22 Philanthropy ............................ 24 Cover image: The Anderson Stuart Building, Cover image: The Anderson Stuart Building, where students study anatomy and histology. Sydney Nursing School The facts − Sydney Nursing School is ranked 1st in Australia and 13th in the world for nursing research and education excellence (2016 QS World University Rankings by Subject). − We were awarded the highest possible score: ‘well above world standard’ in sydney.edu.au/nursing both the 2012 and 2015 Excellence in Research for Australia audits by the Australia Research Council. − Nearly 2000 students are currently enrolled in our nursing programs. Sydney Nursing School − Around 90 percent of nursing graduates − We recently extended our presence who completed their degrees in 2014 into Western Sydney with the first had found full-time employment by 2015. cohort of Sydney Nursing School − 30 coursework scholarships are graduate entry students commencing allocated annually to domestic at Westmead in Semester 1 of 2016. and international undergraduate, − In 2015, we received the largest- postgraduate and rural entry students, ever gift to an Australian nursing Artist's impression of the proposed new facility to co-locate including four PhD scholarships. school from the Susan and Isaac health disciplines on the Camperdown Campus. − Since 1995, Sydney Nursing School has Wakil Foundation. This was followed worked with the Singapore Institute in 2016 by a $35 million gift to the Our vision Welcome to Sydney of Management to educate nurses University of Sydney that will enable To creatively sustain a vibrant, respectful in Singapore. In 2016, 171 students construction of Stage 1 of the University Nursing School – excellence environment in which staff and students were studying nursing with Sydney of Sydney’s proposed Health Precinct in nursing education collaboratively engage in quality nursing Sydney Nursing School Nursing School in Singapore. on the Camperdown Campus. We will and midwifery education and research relocate to this new building in 2019. and research. that impacts on national and international policy and practice to improve the health − Nurses are in increasing demand of all people and their communities. in Australia, with a further 85,000 In this booklet we explain needed by 2025 (see Australia's Future Health Workforce Report, 2014). our vision for a healthier Our mission To be known in Australia and internationally world, and present some of for our collaborative and interdisciplinary approach to achieving excellence in the achievements that have education and research; and for improving seen us become the leading and maintaining health in partnership with nursing school in Australia. people, their families and communities. Our values − Collaboration The University of Sydney − Creativity − Respect − Scholarship Page 2 Caption? Page 3 A career in nursing Why Sydney Nursing School? Nurses make a genuine difference to You will also find nurses in other services The world is opening up to different possibilities people’s lives. As highly trained and and industries such as health insurance, valued professionals, nurses have great media, travel, pharmaceuticals and in health and healthcare through new treatments, career opportunities all over the world. bioethics. Nurses work in positions new ways to deliver care, and new approaches to In clinical settings and as researchers, of influence and innovation, policy nurses contribute to health research development, education and research disease prevention and health promotion. and health policy – continuously leading and at the highest levels of government sydney.edu.au/nursing improvements to healthcare practices. across the world. People in Australia have rated nurses the Nurses also work in areas of conflict such most ethical and honest profession each as war zones, and in famine, disease and Partnership and participation are now interstate and overseas. We aim to prepare year for 21 years in a row.* disaster management. In all of these significant features of reimagining health our students for professional practice Why Sydney Nursing School? places, you will find graduates of Sydney for the future. However, healthcare through evidence-based clinical learning Nurses are in high demand by a wide range Nursing School. systems across the world are increasingly and research-led teaching. of employers, with the opportunity to challenged by the economic and social care for people and their families in many Our students have an excellent record of costs of care. We share close affiliations with the hospital and community settings, including: obtaining their new-graduate transition University of Sydney’s clinical schools based − general practices program place of choice. In the 2015 Sydney Nursing School produces graduates at Royal Prince Alfred, Royal North Shore, Australian Graduate Survey, 85 percent who have the critical thinking skills and Concord, Nepean and Westmead hospitals, − health centres and clinics of our bachelor's degree graduates and nursing knowledge to provide the best with academic leads across Sydney based at − Aboriginal and Torres Strait 92 percent of our pre-registration Master care for people, wherever they are. We the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse, Royal Hospital Islander health services of Nursing graduates were reported as expect our graduates to engage with and for Women, St Vincent’s Hospitals, Royal − hospices being employed full time. contribute to important decisions about Rehab, the Charles Perkins Centre and at − aged-care facilities trends in treatment, patient care and a number of medical research institutes. disease prevention. − in people's homes Student life at Sydney Nursing School is Sydney Nursing School − in rural and remote communities. Our students learn from leading clinical vibrant, active and dynamic. Our students experts and academics who are active contribute to University decision-making, researchers in the areas in which they join community volunteering programs and teach. Their research aims to improve meet people from across the University patient experience, inform clinical practice through the 200 clubs and societies and education and influence health and facilitated by the University of Sydney health policy. Union, including the Sydney University Nursing Society (SUNS). Many of our staff also work in frontline healthcare services, making a real From 2019, enabled by a generous gift from difference to the healthcare landscape the Susan and Isaac Wakil Foundation, we in Australia and internationally. will be moving to the University of Sydney’s Health Precinct on the Camperdown Our students gain practical, hands-on Campus. Purpose-built, co-located experience in dedicated clinical simulation facilities will enable multiple disciplines to The University of Sydney facilities at both the Mallett Street and increase their collaboration in education Westmead Precinct campuses of the and research in health and healthcare. University. Our students also attend clinical placements within the Sydney metropolitan area, in rural and remote areas of NSW, *Roy Morgan Research, Image of Professions Page 4 Survey, 2015 Page 5 Our history of leadership Since the Cumberland College of Nursing amalgamated 1989 2011 with the University of Sydney in 1991, the University has Sydney CAE ceases as a corporate The faculty adopts the name body and the Institute of Nursing ‘Sydney Nursing School’ been committed to producing, supporting and inspiring Studies is amalgamated with the in line with University leaders in nursing and midwifery. University of Sydney. branding conventions. sydney.edu.au/nursing 1991 2012 The federal government decides The new Bachelor of Nursing to transfer all nursing education in (Advanced Studies) program Our researchers, students, alumni 1973 1978 Australia to the higher education is introduced. and staff are leaders in their fields Our history of leadership Cumberland College of Health Cumberland College moves to sector by 1991. Cumberland who use their knowledge and skills Sciences offers the first tertiary the current site of the Faculty College of Nursing becomes to change lives in Australia and 2016 institution-based programs to of Health Sciences, Lidcombe. the Faculty of Nursing at the around the world. nurses in New South Wales. The University of Sydney. The first cohort of Master college teaches diploma programs of Nursing (Graduate Our points