Dear General Practitioner
Your patient presenting to you today has applied to study the Diploma of Nursing (Enrolled)
at CIT.
We seek your help in addressing the following three requirements of the course 1. CIT insurers require a letter from a General Practitioner attesting to the student’s
fitness to undertake nursing duties at the time of course commencement. Any preexisting injuries should also be included in this letter. The clearance letter must
relate to any pre-existing injuries and the current health of the student.
2. Students with a current Workers Compensation claim or injury will be required to
inform CIT and present a letter from their treating Medical Specialist.
3. Students are also required to comply with the ACT Health “Student and Trainee
Clinical Placement Policy” and the NSW Health Policy “Occupational Assessment,
Screening and Vaccination against Specified Infectious Diseases”; and show
documented evidence of their immunisation status.
Doctor’s letter:
During the Diploma of Nursing course, students are required to work in the simulated
learning environment and complete 11 weeks of clinical placement in health care facilities
across the ACT and NSW. Some of the duties students will be required to complete during
the course include –
Apply nursing interventions/procedures relating to:
Promote comfort, rest and sleep
Assist with movement of clients
Assistance with transferring clients/patients
Manual handling techniques must include:
 Transferring a client from bed to chair and vice versa with the correct use of hoists,
hover mattress and slide sheets
 Assisting a client to ambulate – this may include wheel chairs, shower chairs, walking
frames, crutches etc.
 Moving a client in the bed
 Minimising falls – falls prevention
 Positioning/active and passive exercises
 Bed making/sponging
 Basic life support e.g. initiate CPR according to organisation procedures.
A letter stating that the student is fit to perform the above duties required for the Diploma
of Nursing, and any information regarding pre-existing conditions, and /or any workers
compensation is required.
Immunisation:
The following is required for each student, to ensure compliance with both ACT and NSW
Health’s requirements for Clinical Placement:
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Hepatitis B
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History of completed age appropriate Hepatitis B vaccination
Serology test showing Anti-HB greater than or equal to 10mlU/ml
MMR
o Or
Serology test showing positive IgG for measles mumps and rubella
2 doses of MMR vaccine at least one month apart
Varicella
Serology test showing positive IgG for varicella
o Or
2 dose of varicella vaccine at least one month apart ( or one dose if
person was vaccinated prior to 14 years of age)
dTpa
evidence of one adult dose of dTpa
Influenza
annual influenza is not mandatory, however it is recommended
TB screening this must be attended at TCH respiratory clinic
*TST screening is required if the person was born in a country with high incidence of TB, or
has resided for a cumulative time of more than 3 months or longer in a country with a high incidence of TB,
as listed at: http://www.health.nsw.gov.au/publichealth/infectious/a-z.asp#T.
Your assistance in this enrolment process is appreciated.
Yours sincerely
Lynette Jackson
Katrina Porganyi
Nursing Coordinator
Program Support Officer
Diploma of Nursing (Enrolled)
Nursing Programs
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