Explore the opportunities available at Singapore's most established health and social sciences school. Join our Nursing, Oral Health Therapy or Social Work diploma course and acquire the skills to help others improve their quality of life in your specialised fields.

To be eligible for consideration for admission, candidates must have the following GCE O-Level (at not more than two sittings) or equivalent examination results and fulfil the aggregate computation requirements.

~ Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Food & Nutrition/ Nutrition & Food Science, Physics, Science (Chemistry, Biology), Science (Physics, Biology), Science (Physics, Chemistry).

^# Art/Higher Art, Business Studies, Combined Humanities, Economics, Geography, History, Humanities (Social Studies, Literature in English/Chinese/Malay/Tamil), Humanities (Social Studies, History/Geography), Introduction to Enterprise Development, Literature in English/Chinese/Malay/Tamil, Media Studies (English/Chinese), Music/Higher Music.

^ Admission to a course is based on merit and subject to the availability of vacancies. The range of net ELR2B2 aggregate score of the students who were admitted to these courses through the Joint Admissions Exercise (JAE) are shown as a general reference. JAE applicants require net ELR2B2-C aggregate score of 28 points or better to be eligible for Nursing (C97).

¹ All prospective healthcare students must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a vaccine regime recognised in Singapore. Those who are medically-ineligible will be subjected to prevailing MOH and healthcare institutions' guidelines. Those who are medically eligible and choose to remain unvaccinated may not be able to access the healthcare and community care settings to complete their clinical posting and meet the clinical training requirement necessary for graduation.

As the delivery of direct patient care is a requisite of healthcare professions, all applicants must pass a medical examination and be certified to have the following abilities to perform patient care activities in a safe and effective manner:

• Mental-Cognitive ability (including interpersonal-communication ability and behavioural stability) to:
   a. provide safe care to populations, including safety to self
   b. demonstrate emotional-behavioural stability to function under the stress and pressure when performing nursing care on patients
   c. being observed by instructors and other health care personnel during clinical practice attachments.

• Physical ability to:
   a. move around in the clinical environment, walk/stand, bend, reach, lift climb, push and pull, carry objects
   b. perform patient transfers and complex sequences of hand-eye coordination.

• Auditory ability to:
   a. hear faint body sounds
   b. auditory alarms
   c. normal speaking level sounds (i.e. blood pressure sounds, monitors, call bells and person-to-person report).

• Visual ability to:
   a. detect changes in physical appearance, colour and contour
   b. read accurately medication/ drug labels, markings on syringes and manometers, written and electronic communication.

² Please ensure you have read and understood the Fitness to Practice Advisory before applying. The guidelines in the advisory and the required abilities are stipulated in consultation with Singapore Nursing Board to ensure nursing students are fit to practise when they apply for registration upon graduation from nursing programme. Interested applicants with known condition(s) or unsure if their condition(s) may affect their ability to deliver safe and effective patient care are highly encouraged to contact us for more information.

³Applicants will have to pass a manual dexterity test (MDT) as the MDT is required under industry standards to assess the applicant’s fine motor skills crucial for handling of specialised instruments for effective and safe delivery of dental treatment.