Full Time
Combination
1 year 6 months
Next intake
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15 hours
15 hours
$12,600
This course may be fee free, or available at a reduced cost.
This course is currently scheduled on Wednesday and Friday with day classes. This timetable may change and will be confirmed by your teacher.
Assessments give you the opportunity to demonstrate what you have learnt and to identify the knowledge or skills that may need further development.
Knowledge assessments: short answer, multiple-choice questions, matching, true or false questions
Skills assessments: demonstrations under observation
Project assessments: research tasks
Case study assessments: scenarios, assignments
Submission of a training logbook for work placement
Work placement provides you with opportunities to respond to situations and circumstances that cannot be replicated in a learning or simulated environment. Work placement strengthens your training and supports continued learning and assessment in the workplace.
To be enrolled in this course offering, you need to be able to meet the following work placement requirements:
Students must have work placement arrangements of a minimum of 720 hours in a veterinary practice / clinic / hospital. 2 days per week for duration of course.
Students must provide evidence of confirmation of work placement prior to enrolment. An example of work placement evidence is a signed letter from a veterinary practice.
Students who are unable to provide evidence of work placement will not be allowed to enrol into the course. Students whose work placements are made unavailable during the course must find other suitable work placement to meet the qualification and unit requirement.
To complete this course, the following materials are required:
You will need to provide for yourself the following resources which you will keep when you complete your study:
To make sure this delivery option is the right fit for you, we will need you to demonstrate that you can meet the additional requirements below.
To be enrolled in this course offering, you need to be able to provide evidence that you have:
Courses are made up of a combination of both core and specialty units. In the Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing qualification, you’ll need to successfully complete 21 units of competency, including 17 core and 4 speciality units.
Core units are central to the job outcomes of a particular industry or occupation. These are the units industry has agreed are essential to be capable and qualified at a particular study level.
Check if you can make one of the information sessions below
Fri, 14 Jun 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Online
Fri, 14 Jun 2024, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Richmond -Cnr Blacktown Campus Roads, Richmond, 2753, NSW
Building J, Ground Floor, Room Cumberlnd room - JG.19
Learn through a combination of classroom based, online and/or workplace activity. For example, you may participate in scheduled classroom activity, have an element of self-directed learning with online content, and/or receive supervised training while on the job, doing work experience, or on placement.
Classroom activity will be scheduled, but online learning can provide more flexibility. Teacher support will be provided for all study. Access to a computer with an internet connection is required.
TAFE NSW Richmond is located northwest of Sydney in the Hawkesbury Valley, a five minute drive from the towns of Richmond and Windsor and a 20 minute walk from East Richmond train station. With a focus on sustainability and renewable horticultural and livestock management practices, TAFE NSW Richmond focuses on how industry, community and learning expertise can help you to change lives and the future of industry practices.
Cnr Blacktown & Campus Roads Richmond 2753
Parking on campus grounds is available.
Refer to your local bus timetables, visit transportnsw.info
East Richmond Station is 2100 metres from campus.
TAFE NSW campuses work closely with the community and industry to ensure you have access to the industry standard technologies, equipment and facilities.
Blacksmithing and farriery facility
Cat foster care facility
Climate controlled animal care facility and aviaries
Eco skills training centre
Fully equipped, simulated veterinary nursing labs
Horse-racing track, ¼ sized
Horticultural centre of excellence, featuring:
Croquet lawn
Glasshouses
Landscaped gardens
Nursery
Orchard
Indoor dressage arena
Livestock handling facilities
Science laboratories
Stables capable of housing eight horses
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