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Welcome to the School of Nursing and Midwifery (SNM) at the University of Tasmania .
The School of Nursing & Midwifery is a large multi-campus school with 3 satellite campuses at Rozelle and Darlinghurst in New South Wales and Hobart in Tasmania. The main campus is at Newnham in Launceston , Tasmania .
The School offers both undergraduate and postgraduate nursing education. The undergraduate program, the Bachelor of Nursing (BN) , is either undertaken over two or three calendar years with each of these options being equivalent, consisting of six semesters of study. We are proud to offer the Bachelor of Nursing in partnership with a number of Health Care Agencies. In New South Wales at Darlinghurst the BN is offered in partnership with St Vincents & Mater Health Services and at Rozelle the BN is offered with South West Sydney Area Health Service and South Eastern Sydney and Illawarra Area Health Service. In Tasmania , the BN is offered in partnership with the Department of Health and Human Services and a number of private Health Care providers.
The aim of the postgraduate program is to meet the educational needs of registered nurses and midwives by offering an accessible, diverse and innovative range of professional nursing and midwifery specialisations. The majority of units are delivered flexibly. For many students this will mean that the theoretical components of their study will be fully online, others will combine online learning with a range of mediums including face-to face learning. While the postgraduate program is growing rapidly SNM staff are committed to maintaining a personal and supportive relationship with their students.
Simulation based education is a growing trend in health care nationally and internationally both in undergraduate and postgraduate education. The School of Nursing & Midwifery is amongst the leaders in this type of education with its state of the art simulation centre located at the Newnham Campus and rapidly growing simulation capability in Sydney and Hobart. Students of the School can expect to participate in a range of task training, low, medium and high fidelity simulation activities throughout their preparation as nurses.
The School of Nursing & Midwifery has a strongly developing research area and offers Honours, Masters by Research and PhD programs. The research theme areas within the school are Practice Development, Clinical Education & Simulation, and Aged Care & Chronic Disease Management. The School is strongly committed to collaborative research participating in local, national and international research projects and networks.
The School has a central involvement with the Wicking Dementia Research and Education Centre (WDREC), in the Menzies Research Institute UTAS, as a part of our wider aged care research program. SNM Professor Andrew Robinson is a co-director of the Centre, which is leading dementia research in Tasmania in the areas of social science/health services research and laboratory based neuroscience research. The role of nurses in the provision of care and support to people with dementia and their carers is critical and the WDREC is undertaking research projects to investigate and develop nursing practice in this area. It is also developing a program to facilitate educational opportunities for nurses to build their capacity to provide evidence based dementia care.
My colleagues and I look forward to meeting you and may I take this opportunity to wish you success in your studies.
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