Bachelor of Nursing
Course Overview
If you’re passionate about helping others and considering a future in nursing, then UC’s Bachelor of Nursing course offers an outstanding industry and globally respected platform from which to launch your nursing career.
This immersive and fully interactive course incorporates the latest national and international interactive teaching and online practice methods while using innovative technological and medical equipment to simulate real-life scenarios.
As part of you this course, you’ll also undertake multiple clinical placement opportunities and gain valuable insight and experience across a broad range of healthcare service providers.
Successful completion of this course will enable you to become a registered nurse in Australia, and upon graduation you’ll have the necessary skills, experience, and qualifications to be recognised as a nursing professional all over the world.
Course Structure
This course may have the following study plan:
Year 1
Semester 1
Foundations of Anatomy and Physiology (10298)
Integrating Nursing Concepts 1 (10203)
Person-Centred Practice in Nursing (11835)
Professional Orientation (Nursing) (11856)
Semester 2
Comprehensive Health Assessment and Learning for Nursing Practice (11858)
Concepts in Pharmacology (10202)
Integrating Nursing Concepts 2 (Capstone 1) (10204)
Research and Technology for Healthcare Practice (11851)
Year 2
Semester 1
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's Health Contexts (11852)
Concepts in Pathophysiology (10201)
Health Across the Lifespan: Mental Health (10197)
Integrating Nursing Concepts 3 (10205)
Semester 2
Health Across the Lifespan: Chronic and Complex Care (10199)
Health Across the Lifespan: Dimensions of Ageing (11855)
Integrating Nursing Concepts 4 (10206)
Integrating Pathophysiology (11848)
Winter Term
Ethics and Law for Health Professionals (7951)
Year 3
Semester 1
Diversity, Inclusion and Healthcare (11849)
Health Across the Lifespan: Child and Family Health (10196)
Health Across the Lifespan: High Acuity Care Needs (11857)
Integrating Nursing Concepts 5 (Capstone 2) (10207)
Semester 2
Integrating Nursing Concepts 6 (Capstone) (11853)
Mental Health Care in Practice (11850)
Quality, Safety and Leadership in Healthcare (11854)
Career Opportunities
This course leads directly into becoming eligible for registration as an Australian qualified Registered Nurse.
Nursing is a diverse career and a UC trained RN can comfortably look for work in the hospital sector, private health care, primary health care, rural and remote health care and military support. An Australian RN qualification is also highly respected internationally and opens the door to numerous nursing employment opportunities overseas.
Internship or Work Placements
WIL is a vital component of this course, and in the first semester, you will have the opportunity to participate in a four-day observational placement, to accurately gauge the realities of a career as a registered nurse. Over the next three years, you will be required to complete approximately 880 hours of clinical practice across a range of local and regional medical settings - including paediatric, aged care, medical and surgical, theatre, emergency department (ED) and intensive care unit (ICU).