School Of Nursing and Midwifery
Clinical Placement Information Pack
Welcome to the School of Nursing and Midwifery
Clinical Office Contact Details
Peninsula Campus
Berwick Campus
Clayton Campus
Clinical office
Clinical office
Clinical Office
Building H
Building 903
Building 13C
McMahons Road
71 Clyde Road
Wellington Road
P.O. Box 527
P.O. Box 1071
Clayton VIC 3800
Frankston VIC 3199
Berwick VIC 3806
Ph. 9905 0596
Ph. 9904 4028
Ph. 9904 7140
Open: 10-4pm
Open: 10am-12pm
Open: 10-4pm
and 1pm-2.30pm daily
Congratulations on being accepted into your degree. This pack provides you with information about
clinical placements which are an important aspect of your course. Please ensure you read all
information contained in this pack and complete all mandatory requirements by the specified
deadlines. You are encouraged to start completing your mandatory requirements immediately.
The details of the clinical placement office on each campus are shown above. Email is the preferred
method of communication. Students from any campus can email their enquiries to the clinical office
using the email address sonmplacements@monash.edu.
Telephone support is also available by contacting the clinical office on your campus on the
telephone numbers listed above.
Any closures to the clinical offices will be announced on the Clinical Moodle web site.
We wish you every success with your studies and we look forward to working with you throughout
your degree.
Warm Regards,
The Clinical Placement Team
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Index
Page
Clinical placement locations
3
Clinical Calendars
3
Moodle
4
Pre-placement mandatory requirements
4
Fit2Work Police Check
5
Immunisations
6
Working with Children Check
7
Uniform Requirements
8
Social Media Platforms
8
Clinical/Fieldwork Placement Procedures and Behaviour Guidelines
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Clinical Placement Locations
We currently place students in over 100 clinical venues across Victoria including;
Venues
Public Hospitals
Private Hospitals
General Practice
Community Health Centres
Royal District Nursing Service
Specialities
Mental Health: community, inpatient and
forensic mental health
Acute medical and surgical
Community and Primary Health Care
Aged care and Rehabilitation
Trauma, ICU and ED, Paediatrics, Theatre
Rural Health
Clinical Calendars
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Clinical calendars are released annually and indicate the dates for clinical placement for
each of the course year levels. You are required to be available throughout the year. There
are several alternative placement blocks for each unit and students can be allocated to any
one of these blocks.
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Clinical Calendars are available to view under tab student information on the School of
Nursing and Midwifery website
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http://www.med.monash.edu.au/nursing/current.html
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Clinical Calendars are also available to view on the Clinical Information Moodle site. You can
access this site from your My.Monash Portal.
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Clinical placements are sourced and allocated in line with the learning outcomes of the
course. This will mean travelling to both metropolitan and regional areas of Victoria. Please
ensure you take the time to view the clinical calendars and ensure NO holidays are booked
during any of the scheduled clinical placement dates.
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Bachelor of Nursing and Bachelor of Nursing/Bachelor of Midwifery students: You can
expect to receive your clinical placement allocation via your student email 4-6 weeks before
the first placement block. However you will not be notified of your placement until submission
of your mandatory documentation which includes your police check (Fit to Work), completed
immunisation forms including serology, and Working with Children Check.
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Master of Nursing Practice students: You can expect to receive your clinical placement
allocation via your student email during the first few weeks of semester. However you will not
be notified of your placement until submission of your mandatory documentation which
includes your police check (Fit to Work), completed immunisation forms including serology,
and Working with Children Check.
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Moodle
There is a specific clinical site on Moodle that contains all information relating to clinical placement.
You need to be become very familiar with this site. Moodle can be accessed through your
My.Monash Portal once you have enrolled in your clinical unit. The clinical office will utilise Moodle
to provide all clinical placement information to you such as:
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Venue specific information and instructions
Pre-Placement mandatory requirements information
Student rosters/ward allocations (where provided in advance by the healthcare provider)
Links to policies and procedures
Clinical calendars
Discussion boards for student communication relating to clinical matters
Moodle is regularly updated with the most current information. Please ensure you frequently check
your Moodle site and student email account for updated important clinical placement information.
Your placement information can change at short notice.
Pre-Placement Mandatory Requirements
To be eligible to receive your clinical placement allocation you must first meet all pre-placement
mandatory requirements:
1. Current Fit2Work Police Check
2. Up to date Immunisations and provision of serology
3. Current Working with Children Check
4.
You must upload scanned copies of these documents to the Student Placement System (InPlace).
The “Student Upload of Mandatory Requirements” document provides detailed instructions and is
available on the School website at: It is very important that you follow the directions of this
document.
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/nursing/info-4-students/clinical-enrolment-pack/inplace-guidelinesstudent.pdf
Deadline dates to meet mandatory (pre-placement) requirements are listed on Moodle and
updated annually. Please note: Your clinical placement allocation will be withheld if you fail to
comply with the deadlines and this will impact your progress through the course.
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FIT2Work Police Check
Every year that you attend clinical placement you are required to complete a Police Check. Your
police check must be processed in the same year that you attend placement, so it is imperative that
you follow the instructions below and submit your Fit2Work Police Check by the specified deadline.
Fit2Work Police Check Instructions
1. You should expect to receive a Fit2Work Police Check invitation email (to your student email
account) once you have completed the enrolment session.
2. Open the Fit2Work link within your email, read the consent and Click Yes to continue.
3. Before you start you will need to have copies of your 100 points of ID certified (read the
Application Process document which is included in the email for further information)
3.1. Enter your personal and residential details
3.2. Complete the additional details section. This is where you will also scan and attach your
certified documents (100 points in total) at the relevant section
3.3. Make sure the scanned forms are not more than 5MB in size
3.4. Click continue
4. Check your information, read the consent section, click Yes to agree to the consent and then
click Pay for the Check.
5. You will be required to pay the fee of $19.90 + GST ($21.89) for your check. Fit2Work will
accept payment via PayPal or credit card. (Your Check cannot be processed without payment).
Enter your payment details and click Pay.
6. Once you have agreed to the consent and uploaded 100 points of certified identification, and
paid for your check, your online application will be assessed by the Fit2Work team to ensure you
have supplied all required documentation.
7. Once your application has been processed, a confirmation letter will be emailed to your student
email account, followed by your National Police History Check Report document. Please ensure
you save and print this Report document.
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Immunisations
You must comply with procedures to minimise the risk of cross-infection of communicable diseases
during your course of training. It is mandatory requirement of the University and all clinical venues.
No clinical venues will accept students who are not fully vaccinated.
Compliance with these procedures can take months to complete – particularly immunisations. So
once you have accepted a place in the course, we recommend that you start the process
immediately in readiness for clinical placements.
Please see the below link for more information and all the required immunisation forms.
Your completed immunisation forms and serology must be uploaded into the Student Placements
System (InPlace) by the due date.
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/current/immunisation/
UHS – Peninsula
UHS – Clayton
UHS – Caulfield
Berwick Healthcare
Ground Floor
Building 10
Building B
76 Clyde Road
Building A
Ground Floor (Next to STA
Level 1
On Campus
Ph. 9904 4615
Travel)
Ph. 9903 1177
Ph. 9796 1500
Ph. 9905 3175
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Working with Children Check
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All students must hold a current working with children check which must be valid for the
duration of your course.
If you hold a current working with children check, please present your card to the clinical
office.
If you do not hold a current working with children check, please complete a working with
children check application on line which can be accessed via the following link:
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/current/wwc-check.html
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Your Working with Children Check will be mailed to you.
Please note: Once lodged “Working with Children Checks” can take 6 weeks to process and
can only be lodged in Australia with an Australian address. You need to apply for this in a
timely manner
When completing your on-line application:
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Please use Occupational Work Code “58 Paediatric Wards of Public or Private Hospitals”
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Uniform Requirements
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All students are required to wear a Monash University polo shirt with “Nursing”
embroidered on the sleeve while on clinical placement.
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There are strict guidelines regarding Uniform requirements. Please refer to the uniform
policy in the Placement Guidelines included in this pack.
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Please order your shirt as soon as possible as it may take up to 6 weeks for delivery.
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The Monash Shop also has nurse’s pouches and stethoscopes available for purchase.
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We recommend the purchase of 2 shirts.
Peninsula
Clayton
Berwick
Building U
Building 10
Building 902
Ph. 9904 4444
Ground Floor
Ground Floor
peninsula@thecampusbookstore.com
Ph. 9905 3111
Ph. 9904 7091
clayton@bookshop.monash.edu.au
berwick@bookshop.monash.edu.au
Social media platforms
The School has recently ventured into the social media age and now has a Facebook page and
Twitter account. We would love you to contribute and be part of our community. Come and be part
of the conversation, please sign up to follow or like us by visiting;
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/Monash-University-School-of-Nursing-andMidwifery/733687303333758
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Monash_SNM
Clinical/Fieldwork Placement Policies, Procedures and Behavioural
Requirements
Please ensure you carefully read the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences
Clinical/Fieldwork Placement Policies, Procedures and Behavioural Requirements. These are
available on the School Web Site.
http://www.med.monash.edu.au/policies/docs/clinical-fieldwork-placement-guidelines.pdf
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