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Develop your skills as a caring professional nurse who is proactive and adaptable, competent and ethical, and a creative and critical thinker. Theory is consistently embedded in practice throughout this course, and you will undertake clinical placements across a diverse range of areas. You may also choose to engage with communities overseas and gain unique educational and cultural experiences working in care facilities in developing countries.
Choose from specialties in Cardiac Care, Correctional Health, Gerontological Nursing, Intensive Care, Medical, Neuroscience, Perioperative, Renal or Surgical, and expand your skills and your knowledge in bioscience, pharmacology and lifespan development in the context of application to clinical nursing practice.
If you have completed an approved and accredited Diploma of Nursing (Enrolled – Division 2 Nursing), and hold current registration as an Enrolled Nurse with Ahpra, you can apply for this two-year Bachelor of Nursing (Enrolled Nurses – Diploma of Nursing Entry). Victorian applicants with previous nursing qualifications should apply for the Bachelor of Nursing – Later Year Entry. Applicants with any other related qualification should apply for the Bachelor of Nursing and seek credit approval.
Registered nurses are increasingly moving into middle management roles early in their careers and are expected to take on leadership roles in multidisciplinary teams. As a practising nurse, you will need to be an effective manager of staff and financial resources. With just one additional year of study, you will graduate as a nurse equipped with commercial knowledge and understanding in areas including accounting, finance, marketing and business law.
In just four years, you can become both a professional nurse and a paramedic. You’ll be equipped to deliver compassionate and calming primary, urgent and emergency health care in and out of hospital environments. Situation-based learning and a variety of clinical placements ensure you’ll graduate ready for the workplace.
The Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) allows students to develop research skills and work closely with an academic to contribute to a particular area of interest.
The Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) is awarded for high-level research and, as such, it is expected that candidates will make a substantial contribution to knowledge in their chosen field, as well as display an appreciation and understanding of the relationship of their own research investigation within a wider field of knowledge.
February 2025, July 2025
Choose from specialties in Gerontological Nursing, Correctional Health, Renal, Medical, Surgical or Neuroscience and expand your skills and your knowledge in bioscience, pharmacology and lifespan development in the context of application to clinical nursing practice.
Choose from specialties in Gerontological Nursing, Correctional Health, Renal, Medical, Surgical, Neuroscience, Intensive Care, Cardiac Care or Perioperative, and expand your skills and your knowledge in bioscience, pharmacology and lifespan development in the context of application to clinical nursing practice.
The Master of Philosophy (MPhil) is a research degree in a field covered by the University, including theology and philosophy, and is assessed on the basis of a written thesis.
February 2025, July 2025
Raised in Ipswich in southeast Queensland, Dr Derek Chong is the state's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychiatrist. He has worked at the coalface of health, starting out as a residential care worker and going on to graduate with a Bachelor of Nursing from ACU in 1999, while working as a registered psychiatric nurse.
"I've been gifted with wonderful opportunities and awards since my ACU graduation. I received the Pride of Australia Medal for Care and Compassion, I was the recipient of the HESTA Australia Graduate Nurse of the Year Award (2013), and I've been nominated for Young Australian of the Year. I believe ACU helped shaped me into the nurse I am today, one that adores my vocation. I hope to facilitate the same experience for other new nurses, both here in Australia and overseas.
"I want to make an impact by utilising the skills modeled by ACU. I hope to provide exceptional evidence-based holistic nursing care to my patients and their families."
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