Follow your calling to be a health care professional. Our flexible 18-week clinical placement program also allows you to self-roster your placements across weekdays, weekends and night shifts.

You will learn and practice your nursing skills within a simulated inpatient setting complete with leading video technology. Set up just like a real hospital, our nursing labs provide a safe and controlled environment to prepare you for your career in nursing.

This course equips you with the qualifications to gain Division 1 registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.

• Location:
  St Albans
• College:
  College of Health and Biomedicine
• Study mode:
  Full Time
• Delivery mode:
  On campus
• Course code:
  HBBN
• Duration:
  3 years
• This information is for Australian residents.
  Click here for the international version of this course

How to apply

• General practice
• Acute care (eg. critical care, emergency, peri-operative)
• Cancer, palliative care, renal
• Rehabilitation
• Aged care
• Mental health
• Health education
• Pathway into Bachelor of Health Science - Paramedic

For further information about registration requirements for health practitioners, please visit the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA).

Learn more about your career options on the Australian government's Career Information and Resources website.

To prepare work-ready graduates as beginning practitioners who meet requirements for registration as Division 1 nurses with the Nurses Board of Victoria. Through their program of study, graduates will have been enabled to:

• take a lifespan and developmental approach to providing culturally sensitive nursing care to the diverse Australian community;
• provide quality nursing care in a range of healthcare settings;
• apply a health promotion and educational focus to their work;
• undertake a team based and multidisciplinary approach to care;
• have well-developed clinical decision-making skills; and
• adopt a lifelong approach to learning.

The course is offered over three years on a full-time basis.

• Bioscience 1: Human Body Structure and Function

  Unit code

  RBM1102

  Credits

  12

• Health and Diversity in a Global Context

  Unit code

  ASE1101

  Credits

  12

• Psychology Across the Lifespan

  Unit code

  APT1311

  Credits

  12

• Frameworks for Nursing Practice

  Unit code

  HNB1101

  Credits

  12

• Bioscience 2: Human Body Structure and Function

  Unit code

  RBM1203

  Credits

  12

• Working With Families

  Unit code

  HNB1201

  Credits

  12

• Health Priorities and Nursing 1

  Unit code

  HNB1202

  Credits

  12

• Clinical Practicum 1

  Unit code

  HNB1203

  Credits

  12

• Pathophysiology and Quality Use of Medicines 1

  Unit code

  RBM2104

  Credits

  12

• Working With Evidence in Practice

  Unit code

  HNB2101

  Credits

  12

• Health Priorities and Nursing 2

  Unit code

  HNB2102

  Credits

  12

• Clinical Practicum 2

  Unit code

  HNB2103

  Credits

  12

• Pathophysiology and Quality Use of Medicines 2

  Unit code

  RBM2205

  Credits

  12

• Health Priorities and Nursing 3

  Unit code

  HNB2202

  Credits

  12

• Clinical Practicum 3

  Unit code

  HNB2203

  Credits

  12

• Health Priorities and Nursing 4

  Unit code

  HNB2204

  Credits

  12

• Health Priorities and Nursing 5

  Unit code

  HNB3117

  Credits

  12

• Nursing and Complex Care

  Unit code

  HNB3118

  Credits

  12

• Clinical Practicum 4

  Unit code

  HNB3119

  Credits

  12

• Issues in Professional Practice

  Unit code

  HNB3120

  Credits

  12

• Nursing Specific Populations

  Unit code

  HNB3205

  Credits

  12

• Clinical Practicum 5

  Unit code

  HNB3206

  Credits

  24

• Directed Studies for Nursing

  Unit code

  HNB3208

  Credits

  12

• Pathophysiology and Quality Use of Medicines 1

  Unit code

  RBM2104

  Credits

  12

• Working With Evidence in Practice

  Unit code

  HNB2101

  Credits

  12

• Health Priorities and Nursing 2

  Unit code

  HNB2102

  Credits

  12

• Clinical Practicum 2

  Unit code

  HNB2103

  Credits

  12

• Psychology Across the Lifespan

  Unit code

  APT1311

  Credits

  12

• Pathophysiology and Quality Use of Medicines 2

  Unit code

  RBM2205

  Credits

  12

• Health Priorities and Nursing 3

  Unit code

  HNB2202

  Credits

  12

• Clinical Practicum 3

  Unit code

  HNB2203

  Credits

  12

• Health Priorities and Nursing 4

  Unit code

  HNB2204

  Credits

  12

• Working With Families

  Unit code

  HNB1201

  Credits

  12

• Health Priorities and Nursing 5

  Unit code

  HNB3117

  Credits

  12

• Nursing and Complex Care

  Unit code

  HNB3118

  Credits

  12

• Clinical Practicum 4

  Unit code

  HNB3119

  Credits

  12

• Issues in Professional Practice

  Unit code

  HNB3120

  Credits

  12

• Nursing Specific Populations

  Unit code

  HNB3205

  Credits

  12

• Clinical Practicum 5

  Unit code

  HNB3206

  Credits

  24

• Directed Studies for Nursing

  Unit code

  HNB3208

  Credits

  12

• Year 12: To qualify for admission to the three year course applicants must: 1. have successfully completed the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE) or equivalent and meet all extra requirements and selection procedures listed through VTAC. Prerequisites: Units 1 and 2 mathematics (any). Units 3 and 4  - a study score of at least 25 in English (any) and a study score of at least 20 in one of biology, chemistry, health and human development, mathematics (any), physics or psychology. OR 2. be currently registered (or eligible to register) as an Enrolled nurse (formally Div 2) having successfully completed a Certificate IV in Nursing.  Enrolled nurses may apply for and may be offered a place in either the three year or admitted directly into the second year of the course. Students with a Diploma of Nursing may be admitted directly into the second year of the course. Selection Criteria Year 12 ATAR and two-stage process with a middle band of approximately 20%. Enrolled Nurses and Non-Year 12 Academic record, VTAC Pi (Personal Information) form.
• International: For international students the following English language requirement is needed for entry to the course where the international students' education was conducted in a language other than English. An International English Language Testing System (IELTS) Academic test score of at least 6.5 in Reading and Listening, and a score of at least 6.5 in Writing and Speaking and an overall band score of at least 6.5 or equivalent is required. Students require this level of English proficiency because they will be practising and communicating in the workplace from semester 2 of the course. Registration requirements. Please refer to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia website http://www.nursingmidwiferyboard.gov.au for the most current registration requirements that may impact on an applicant's registration application. English language requirements for registration may exist for students schooled outside of Australia*
• Other: Applicants who do not meet the normal admission requirements but who possess appropriate educational qualifications, work or life experiences which would enable them to successfully undertake the course, will be considered for admission. Persons of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged to apply for admission. Applicants will be assessed on an individual basis to determine their suitability and potential for success in the course. Applicants who consider their capacity to qualify under normal entry provisions have been limited by some disadvantage, for example, illness, disability, economic hardship or isolation may apply to be considered as a disadvantaged person. Applicants will be assessed on an individual basis to determine their suitability and potential for success in the course. Policy requirement: Students must comply with the Clinical Practicum Policies (see www.vu.edu.au/mclpolicy). Police check: Students must complete a National Police Records check prior to undertaking hospital/agency placements). Working with Children Check: Students must complete a working with children check prior to undertaking clinical placements). Health Status: Students must be prepared to declare their health and immunisation status prior to undertaking hospital/agency placements.

Special admission requirements

Applicants who do not meet the normal admission requirements but who possess appropriate educational qualifications, work or life experiences which would enable them to successfully undertake the course, will be considered for admission. Persons of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent are encouraged to apply for admission. Applicants will be assessed on an individual basis to determine their suitability and potential for success in the course. Applicants who consider their capacity to qualify under normal entry provisions have been limited by some disadvantage, for example, illness, disability, economic hardship or isolation may apply to be considered as a disadvantaged person. Applicants will be assessed on an individual basis to determine their suitability and potential for success in the course.

Clinical placement requirements

In order to undertake clinical components of the course, students are required to provide a Working with Children check as well as an annual Police record check. Additionally students will need to sign a declaration of eligibility and fitness for clinical practice.