
National ID: ACM40418 | State ID: BED9
Want a career caring for animals?
When you complete the Certificate IV in Veterinary Nursing, you will be ready for a career as a veterinary nurse, or animal welfare worker.
You will have the skills and knowledge to work effectively in a veterinary practice, providing care to a wide variety of animals, assisting with surgery preparation and procedures, performing pathology and imaging procedures, providing post-surgery care and advice, and workplace safety and health.
This course is popular and highly competitive to get into. Please ensure you enter all your work and work experience, both related to the field and unrelated, in your application.
Your qualification prepares you for roles such as:
Course overview

Geraldton
- 12 months
- This is a competitive course.
- Academic achievement and work history
Location | Duration | Competitive | Selection criteria |
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Geraldton | 12 months | Yes | Academic achievement and work history |

Bentley
- Two semesters
- This is a competitive course.
- Academic achievement and work history
Location | Duration | Competitive | Selection criteria |
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Bentley | Two semesters | Yes | Academic achievement and work history |
Please contact the college to receive an indicative price for this course.
VET Student Loans
VET Student Loans is the new program that replaces the current VET FEE HELP scheme.
Eligible students will be entitled to apply for a VET Student Loan. Comprehensive information on VET Student Loans can be found on the Australian Government website education.gov.au/vet-student-loans
International students
Fees, charges, available locations, applications, and enrolment procedures for international students are different to those applicable to local students.
International students can only study full-time.
For information on international student fees and application, please follow this link to the TAFE International WA website www.tafeinternational.wa.edu.au
Page last updated February 04, 2021