For the ward,
and the person in the bed.
Learning to
care, hour
by hour.
Kango College teaches nursing in the skills lab, Monday to Friday, 08:00 to 16:30, at 120 Infirmary Road, Wrenfield. The Diploma of Nursing begins on Monday 6 September 2027.
September 2027 intake
Diploma of Nursing
Applications
2027
2.15Mon ▸ 3.31Wed
Applications open 15 February
Closes at 17:00 on the last day
- 08:00 Handover practice
- 08:30 Bioscience lecture
- 10:30 The lab hour
- 12:30 Lunch
- 13:30 Ward simulation
- 15:30 Debrief
Three questions before you apply.
Students and instructors, in their own words
The college asks students and instructors to say what the hour actually feels like. Leila and Noah are students. Tomás and Yuna teach in the skills lab and the simulation ward, Nadia arranges the placement hours, and Dr. Ingrid Solheim, the dean, keeps the day in its order. These are their words.
I got the first reading wrong and stayed to take it again.
— Leila Haddad, year-two student
Week nine on the ward, I started to hear the whole handover.
— Noah Petrov, first-year student
I stand with the group until the skill in their hands holds.
— Tomás Arriaga RN, Skills Lab head
Say what you see beside the manikin, then we talk it through.
— Yuna Seo RN, simulation ward
Your placement hours are supervised, and you do not arrange them alone.
— Nadia Rahimi RN, placements
Clear hours keep the person in the bed at the centre.
— Dr. Ingrid Solheim, Dean
A teaching day
08:00
Practice
Handover practice
Students practise handover at an empty bed, passing the patient in clear voices with blank clipboards.
08:30
Theory
Bioscience lecture
The bioscience lecture gives the names for the body you will meet again in the lab.
10:30
Practice
The lab hour
Wrap a manikin arm while the instructor points, and keep going until the dressing is steady.
12:30
Break
Lunch
Students sit at a long canteen table, trays between them, and talk before the ward simulation.
13:30
Practice
Ward simulation
One student checks the drip beside a manikin and says, plainly, what the ward is showing.
15:30until 16:30
Reflection
Debrief
A low circle: what the day asked, what the hands did, until the day closes at 16:30.
Who the course admits
Applicants need secondary school completion with biology or a science course. Kango College offers 48 places a year on the Diploma of Nursing, taught across 6 terms, with 1,400 placement hours in the three years. A health check and a background check are completed before the first placement.
The next intake begins on Monday 6 September 2027. Interviews are in April 2027, and offers are sent by Friday 14 May 2027. Graduates may apply to the regional nursing register; registration is decided by the register, not by the college.
48 places
6 terms
1,400 placement hours
Application fee$60
Diploma tuition, per term$4,200
What the lab hour asks
The lab hour starts at 10:30, between the bioscience lecture and lunch. You work in the open: a blood-pressure reading, a dressing on a manikin arm, the checks you have already practised at handover. An instructor stands close enough to point, and the skill is not taken out of your hands. If something is wrong, it is named while the hour is still going.
Every lab hour is taught as 6 students to 1 instructor. The group keeps the same skill until it is steady. You are asked to bring your attention and to stay with that one task.
6 students, 1 instructor, the same skill until it is steady.
One college, one teaching day,
and the person who needs the hour.
Latest notes
Come to an open lab morning.
On the first Saturday of each month the skills lab is open from 10:00 to 12:00. The morning is free, and no booking is needed. Visitors meet a student and look at a bed together.
120 Infirmary Road, Wrenfield
ApplicationsMon 15 Feb to Wed 31 Mar 2027
InterviewsApril 2027
OffersBy Friday 14 May 2027
