Nurses in Australia train through university for a minimum of 6 full-time semesters. They are educated to a Bachelor Degree level with a variety of clinical placements in their first and last years of study. After graduation, nurses spend the first year working as a new graduate nurse, many hospitals offer a Graduate Nurse Programme where the nurse rotates through a number of specialties during the year, however, it is up to the nurse where she works for this first year after registration.
After registration with the State Nursing Board a nurse is known as a Registered Nurse. In New South Wales, registered nurses are graded Year 1 to Year 8 , for salary purposes. The nurse who manages the clinical area such as the ward is called Nurse Unit Manager, and a Clinical Nurse Consultants is a grade higher again.
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