Studying nursing at Wintec involves a combination of learning theoretical knowledge with hands-on learning in real healthcare environments. Students will have the chance to provide supervised nursing care with health consumers, whānau, hapū, and communities, throughout their programmes.
A registered nurse's day will be spent planning and carrying out nursing care in a clinical area, having therapeutic conversations with health care consumers and their whānau/families, monitoring and recording essential changes in health care consumers conditions, giving medication and intravenous drugs, educating health care consumers and their whānau/families about health care needs, working within and contributing to multidisciplinary teams, ensuring accurate health records are maintained and promoting health, and advocating for health care consumers and their whānau/families.
Registered nurses work across a range of health care settings, including but not limited to:
Enrolled nurses work across a range of healthcare specialist settings. They work under the supervision of a registered health practitioner to care for and educate patients in rehabilitation, acute care, aged care, and mental health.
With postgraduate qualifications, graduates can work in Advanced Nursing Practice roles. These may include positions such as nurse educator, clinical leader, clinical nurse specialist, clinical charge nurse, registered nurse prescriber in the long term and related conditions, health services manager, and case manager/co-ordinator. If students undertake the nurse practitioner pathway in the Master of Nursing, upon graduation, they can apply to the Nursing Council of New Zealand for the Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice. Nurse Practitioners provide a wide range of assessment and treatment interventions, ordering and interpreting diagnostic and laboratory tests, prescribing medicines within their area of competence, and admitting and discharging from the hospital and other healthcare services/settings. As clinical leaders, they work across healthcare settings, influencing health service delivery and the wider profession.
Don't meet academic entry criteria?
By completing one of these courses you will be eligible for higher level study.
Looking to start or change your career? These programmes will help you get there.
Already have a degree relevant to health science or an allied professional or health qualification?
These programmes could help you get into a nursing career faster.
Want to return to practice?
These programmes will help you to meet competency for practice.
Looking to advance your career?
These postgraduate and master's programmes will help give you the knowledge and skills you need.
Please check the entry criteria for each programme to see which course is the best level for you to begin with. The entry criteria information can be found on each of the programme pages here online. You can also contact us directly to discuss the appropriate level for you at info@wintec.ac.nz.
Studying towards your qualification requires you to spend a set amount of time on placement – this means working in a real-life work environment where you can put your learnings into practice. The amount of time spent on placement varies according to what qualification you are studying, and in which year of study you are. First-year students will spend approximately a quarter of the year on placement. Whereas, by the time you reach your third year, you will spend almost all of your time on placement.
Please check the entry criteria for each programme to see which course is the best level for you to begin with. The entry criteria information can be found on each of the programme pages here online. You can also contact us directly to discuss the appropriate level for you at info@wintec.ac.nz.
The Wintec Prospectus (otherwise known as a course guide) outlines everything you need to know about Wintec. It contains information about the Wintec campuses, student life, and the programmes that are on offer.
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