ACM50210 Diploma of Veterinary Nursing (Surgical)

Supersededtraining.gov.au: supersededNonEquivalent

The currency period for ACM50210 ended on 5 December 2012 — 13 years ago. It names one replacement below, with the equivalence it declares for each.

Transition clockClosed to new enrolments

New enrolments are not permitted from 7 December 2013 — one year from the date the replacement was included on the National Register (s 14(1)(a)(i) of the National VET Regulator (Compliance Standards for NVR RTOs and Fit and Proper Person Requirements) Instrument 2025 (F2025L00355, in force 1 July 2025)), or from a later date if ASQA has approved otherwise for your organisation.

Learners already enrolled have no fixed deadline: they complete the product and are issued their AQF certification, or transfer to the replacement, in a timely manner (ASQA guidance, read live 25 August 2026).

The same date closes a second obligation: under s 7(2)(c) of the same instrument, advertising may refer to a superseded product only while it is on scope and new enrolments are permitted. When enrolments stop, the course page advertising it stops being permitted too — and if ASQA approves a later enrolment date, that moves with it.

Sector-wide: the item 14 cut-off, measured across every live scope · the repealed 12-month rule

Product type
Qualification
Training package
ACM10 — Animal Care and Management
Currency period ends
5 December 2012
Latest release
Release 1 · 11 November 2010
Supersedes
RUV50204
Superseded by
ACM50212 not equivalent

Where the register points next

Each step below is one supersession training.gov.au publishes between two products. The label on the rail is the equivalence the register declares for that step — not our reading of it.

  1. ACM50210Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Veterinary Nursing (Surgical)
  2. not equivalent
  3. ACM50212Superseded — not equivalentDiploma of Veterinary Nursing (Surgical)
  4. not equivalent
  5. ACM50219CurrentDiploma of Veterinary Nursing

What the register says changed

These are the mapping notes training.gov.au attaches to each supersession, quoted as the register writes them. They are the only public record of what actually changed between two versions.

  • RUV50204ACM50210not equivalent10 November 2010

    The register records this supersession but attaches no note on what changed.

  • ACM50210ACM50212not equivalent6 December 2012

    This Qualification supersedes and is not equivalent to ACM50210.

Is ACM50210 on your scope?

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What ACM50210 is made of

training.gov.au lists 14 units for ACM50210. It does not mark them core or elective: the unit grid records N/A for every one of them. The register does not publish a completion rule in units for this product, so we do not state one. What it takes to complete the product is in the packaging rules on training.gov.au.

Units listed 14 listed

CodeUnitCore or electiveIn this product
ACMOHS401AMaintain occupational health and safety processesN/Anot current
ACMSUS301AImplement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practicesN/Anot current
ACMVET401ACoordinate patient admission and dischargeN/Anot current
ACMVET402AApply imaging routinesN/Anot current
ACMVET403APerform clinic pathology proceduresN/Anot current
ACMVET404APerform clinic office proceduresN/Anot current
ACMVET405ACarry out surgical nursing routinesN/Anot current
ACMVET406ANurse animalsN/Anot current
ACMVET407ACarry out medical nursing routinesN/Anot current
ACMVET408ACoordinate and perform theatre routinesN/Anot current
ACMVET409AProvide specific animal care adviceN/Anot current
ACMVET410ACarry out veterinary dental nursing proceduresN/Anot current
ACMVET501AManage nursing requirements for specialised surgical proceduresN/Anot current
ACMVET502ACarry out post-operative nursing routinesN/Anot current

The register publishes this unit grid without a core or elective flag, so this page does not split it into core and elective. "Not current" means training.gov.au no longer recommends that unit for use inside this product — it does not say anything about the product itself.

Source: this product on training.gov.au, Australia's national training register — or go straight to the units it requires. The rule itself is item 14 of F2025L00355, and ASQA publishes the extensions it has granted. Read on 28 August 2026 UTC. Every code, title, date, status and equivalence flag on this page is the register's; nothing here is estimated or inferred, and where the register publishes nothing we say so.

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