Providing high-quality, compassionate and respectful care is the benchmark for any world-class
healthcare system and this Bachelor of Nursing program is designed to do just that. Taken over three years this well-balanced program offers a perfect combination of classroom learning and hands-on experience in appropriate healthcare settings.

The program is divided into four broad study streams: Behavioural Science, Health Science, Nursing Care: Theory and Practice, and Personal and Professional Development. This degree uses problem- solving and an evidence-based approach to teaching - integrating theoretical and practical components. Subjects covered include anatomy, physiology, microbiology, pharmacology, ethics, health communications, paediatrics and adolescent health. Students also choose two electives – options include Rural and Remote Health, Global Health, Maternal Care, Advanced Mental Health and Advanced Wound Care.

Our Bachelor of Nursing program places a high value on the nurse-patient relationship and will
require you to complete intensive clinical practice each year. The university accepts only a limited number of students into this nursing program each year to ensure that you will be placed into an appropriate hospital or heath care setting for your practical experience components. When you graduate, you will be eligible to register with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (Nursing) and become a practising Registered Nurse in any area of nursing.

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION

A graduate will be eligible to register with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA) and become a practising Registered Nurse in any area of nursing as a beginning practitioner.

The following careers are open to graduates of this program:

• Aged care
• Community nursing
• Critical care
• Mental health
• Medical and surgical nursing
• Perioperative Nursing