You want to improve people's lives and help them during difficult times. You want a degree where you spend time learning in a variety of clinical settings and a career where you are constantly updating your skills.

We'll support you as you become a registered nurse. You'll learn to deliver the highest quality care that's focused on the person and use reasoning and evidence-based care to improve your patients' outcomes.

Your subjects include working with diverse communities, mental health, medical and surgical nursing, and palliative care. You'll also learn skills like leadership and management to give you even more confidence when you start your career. Your options will be wide when you graduate. You may choose to work in emergency illness, mental health, long-term care, intercultural health or population health. Wherever you work, chances are your career in nursing will be challenging, stimulating and rewarding. You may even decide to further your studies into a specialised nursing area including midwifery or paramedicine.

Areas of study include: biomedical sciences, general nursing, health promotion, health, nursing, psychology, public health, sociology

Flexible Delivery (domestic students only): Students will study predominately online and will attend the campus for intensive weeks of on-campus work in each semester. 

Note that Flexible Delivery students who live in the Wimmera may complete on-campus clinical lab classes at the Wimmera Campus in Horsham in first and second year.

Industry Experience

Minimum of 800 hours of clinical placement. These placements take place in a variety of healthcare settings across Victoria.

Clinical practice is divided across the program as follows with the respective focus of the practicum:

Year 1

• 80 hrs (Introductory assessment skills and communication)

Year 2

• 120 hrs (Mental healthcare)
• 80 hrs (Acute and subacute care)
• 120 hrs (Medical Surgical nursing)

Year 3

• 80 hrs (Patient deterioration)
• 80 hrs (Chronic illness)
• 120 hrs (Transition to practice)
• 120 hrs (Diverse settings)

Professional recognition

• Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC)
• Australian Health Practitioner Registration Authority (AHPRA)
• Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA)

The Bachelor of Nursing is subject to Australian Nursing Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) approval. This is a routine process conducted every 5 years.

Graduates of this program are eligible for registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Registration Authority (AHPRA).

Please note: To apply for NMBA registration graduates need to demonstrate the ANMAC English language requirements. The current level required for the IELTS test is a score of 7 in all four bands of the Academic test or a B in all four bands of the Occupational English Test (OET). Students will be informed upon admission that they must achieve the English level expected by AHPRA in order to achieve registration.

Career Outcomes

• Aged care nurse
• Clinical audit nurse
• Community health nurse
• Critical care nurse
• Division one nurse
• Emergency nurse
• General practice nurse
• Gerontic nurse
• Health promotion officer
• Healthcare recruiter
• IVF nurse
• Mental health nurse
• Nurse
• Occupational health nurse
• Oncology nurse
• Paediatric nurse
• Palliative care nurse
• Peri-operative nurse
• Primary health nurse
• Registered nurse
• Remote area nurse
• Research nurse
• School nurse

On successful completion, you will be eligible to apply to register with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA) as a registered nurse.