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Make a real difference
Mel Toh shares her experiences of nursing and what led her to work as a screening nurse with Mercy Ships.
High-impact nursing
Find out how studying nursing at QUT can lead to a rewarding career in emergency nursing.
Experience science in 360 degrees
When you study with us, you’ll be working in real clinical settings and simulation environments from your first year. Explore our 360° environments and see what real-world health sciences can mean for you.
World-class training facilities
Our Clinical Simulation Centre offers a unique learning environment. Use simulation equipment, like the $100,000 'SimMan 3G', to practise your skills. Nursing students are recorded while they work on the patient and can later watch the footage and analyse and assess their performance.
Make a real difference
Mel Toh shares her experiences of nursing and what led her to work as a screening nurse with Mercy Ships.
High-impact nursing
Find out how studying nursing at QUT can lead to a rewarding career in emergency nursing.
Experience science in 360 degrees
When you study with us, you’ll be working in real clinical settings and simulation environments from your first year. Explore our 360° environments and see what real-world health sciences can mean for you.
World-class training facilities
Our Clinical Simulation Centre offers a unique learning environment. Use simulation equipment, like the $100,000 'SimMan 3G', to practise your skills. Nursing students are recorded while they work on the patient and can later watch the footage and analyse and assess their performance.
Highlights
- Complete your degree in 2 years instead of 3 if you have a previous degree.
- QUT was the first provider of tertiary nurse education in Queensland and has more than 40 years of experience and industry consultation.
- Complete more than 800 hours of clinical placement.
- Prepare yourself for a career in public and private hospitals, nursing homes, community health, hospital in the home, school health, pathology laboratories, alcohol and drug services and the Australian Defence Force.
Highlights
- Complete your degree in 2 years instead of 3 if you have a previous degree.
- QUT was the first provider of tertiary nurse education in Queensland and has more than 40 years of experience and industry consultation.
- Complete more than 800 hours of clinical placement.
- Prepare yourself for a career in public and private hospitals, nursing homes, community health, hospital in the home, school health, pathology laboratories, alcohol and drug services and the Australian Defence Force.
Why choose this course?
The Bachelor of Nursing (Graduate Entry) provides a pathway for applicants with a bachelor degree in any area other than nursing. Students are awarded the equivalent of one year of advanced standing (credit) and complete the course in two years instead of three.
Our course content reflects emerging developments in healthcare and nursing practice that have been identified through consultation with industry partners, discipline experts and research literature.
QUT's School of Nursing is one of the largest and most established centres in Australia, with more than 40 years of industry consultation and experience. You will learn from some of Australia’s most respected and influential nurse academics and researchers.
Foundation studies will build your knowledge in key areas of anatomy, physiology, and pathophysiology, and will introduce you to professional nursing practice and contemporary healthcare service.
You will also develop an understanding of pharmacology with an emphasis on quality use of medicines. These studies are complemented with opportunities to apply nursing theory to clinical practice in our on campus facilities and in clinical placements off campus.
Graduates of this degree are prepared to excel in a profession where the scope of practice is expanding and there are greater responsibilities for delivery of more complex interventions in a range of healthcare settings and across diverse populations.
Our course recognises the increased demand for graduates who understand the importance of person-centred care and have the capacity to engage people as informed partners in their health care.
Real-world learning
With purpose-built, on-campus facilities that replicate the hospital environment, technology, equipment and scenarios, you will develop confidence and skills to work in a range of nursing environments.
Our Clinical Simulation Centre contains operational hospital rooms where you will practise with real equipment and the latest technology in a simulated environment.
Your experience in real industry settings begins during first semester of first year and continues with clinical placement experience every semester thereafter.
All students are scheduled for 840 hours of clinical practice with a minimum of 800 hours required for registration. You will receive extensive support that includes continual feedback on your performance from clinical facilitators, and mentoring relationships with registered nurse mentors. You may also have the opportunity to apply to travel overseas and provide health services to communities in developed and developing countries.
Explore this course
As a QUT nursing graduate you will be skilled in delivering safe and competent practice across diverse populations, responding to the challenges of health care with agility and resilience, and engaging consumers as informed partners in their health care.
Flexible delivery
Start online. Come when you can.
You can commence this course online in 2021 if you are unable to enter Australia due to travel restrictions, however you will have a part-time study program, with only 1 or 2 units per semester.
The online study may reduce your study load for future semesters, however it will not shorten your course duration on campus.
You will need to complete the course on campus, once travel to Brisbane is possible.
Careers and outcomes
Nursing offers employment opportunities in Australia and overseas, in general and specialist areas such as emergency, paediatrics or mental health, and in other areas including community health, in-home care, school health, alcohol and drug dependence, and the armed services.
Many nurses complete further study and specialise in acute care nursing, cancer nursing, emergency nursing, intensive care nursing, mental health nursing, or paediatric, child and youth health nursing.
Professional recognition
This course has professional accreditation from the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council.
Our graduates are eligible to apply for registered nurse status with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia. Both students and graduates may apply for membership of the Australian College of Nursing.
Student registration
QUT automatically registers students enrolled in this course with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia in accordance with the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009. Details about student registration are available from the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency at www.ahpra.gov.au
Possible careers
- Nurse
- Selection rank
- 97.00
These thresholds are the lowest adjusted scores to which QUT made an offer in Semester 1, 2021.
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- Course code
- NS42
- QTAC code
- 425252
- CRICOS code
- 003501K
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- Kelvin Grove
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- Kelvin Grove
- 2 years full-time
- 2 years full-time
- February and July
- July
Prior study entry requirements
A completed recognised bachelor degree (or equivalent) not in nursing with a minimum volume of learning of 1.00 year full-time (or equivalent) completed within the past 10 years.
If you have completed your degree more than 10 years ago you must provide evidence with your QTAC application of completion of a recognised graduate certificate (or higher) studies undertaken in the last 10 years.
Selection ranks
You will be considered solely on the basis of the selection ranks from all of your prior degree studies plus any postgraduate studies you may have undertaken. Your other qualifications and experiences may be allocated selection ranks for entry to other QUT courses, but will not be considered for this course.
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Additional entry requirements
You must have attended and satisfactorily completed at least 6 years of primary and secondary education taught and assessed solely in English. At least two years of this education must have been between grades 7 and 12. This education must have been completed in one of the following countries:
- Australia
- Canada
- New Zealand
- Republic of Ireland
- South Africa
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
If you have not met these educational requirements, you are required to provide evidence of an acceptable English Language test (refer below).
English language proficiency
QUT requires you to demonstrate you can speak, write, read and comprehend academic English to a specified standard.
QUT’s English proficiency requirements for this course are:
- IELTS (Academic): 7.0 or better overall with no sub-score below 7.0
- PTE: 65 or better overall with no sub-score below 65
- TOEFL (IBT): 98 or better overall with a writing sub-score of 27 or better, listening and writing sub-scores of 24 or better, and speaking sub-score of 23 or better
- Occupational English Test (Nursing Profession) with a minimum score of 350 in each component.
The test must have been completed within two years prior to the proposed course start month.
Automatic advanced standing (credit)
If admitted to the graduate entry program you will automatically receive one year of advanced standing which will entitle you to complete the degree in two years (full-time).
Deferment
You can't defer your offer in this course. You must start in the semester you apply for.
Academic entry requirements
A completed recognised bachelor degree (or equivalent) not in nursing completed within the past ten years with a minimum grade point average (GPA) score of 4.00 (on QUT's 7 point scale).
Applicants in possession of a bachelor degree awarded more than ten years ago will be eligible for entry if they have completed additional postgraduate studies at graduate certificate level (or higher) within ten years of the planned date of course commencement; or
Completed a recognised overseas nursing qualification at bachelor degree level with a minimum grade point average (GPA) score of 4.00 (on QUT's 7 point scale), that enables the applicant to work as a registered nurse in their home country. Applicants whose qualification/s were awarded more than ten years ago will need to provide evidence of recent work experience as a registered nurse, (that is, practice as a registered nurse no more than three years prior to the planned commencement date of the QUT Bachelor of Nursing).
Working with Children Check: blue card
You'll need to submit your blue card application form immediately upon arrival onshore in Australia.
Minimum English language requirements
We accept English language proficiency scores from the following tests.
| English Test | Overall | Listening | Reading | Writing | Speaking |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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IELTS Academic
Test must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement date. |
7 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 7 |
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TOEFL iBT
Test must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement date. |
98 | 24 | 24 | 27 | 23 |
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Pearson PTE (Academic)
Test must be taken no more than 2 years prior to the QUT course commencement date. |
65 | 65 | 65 | 65 | 65 |
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Occupational English Test (Nursing Profession)
Test must be taken within 2 years of commencement at QUT. * A grade of B in each component for tests undertaken prior to September 2018. |
-- | 350* | 350* | 350* | 350* |
Don't have the English language score you need? We can help!
We offer English language programs to improve your English and help you gain entry to this course.
When you apply for this course, we will recommend which English course you should enrol in.
Haven't completed an English language test? We can help!
If you have not completed an English language test, you can sit the IELTS test at our IELTS test centre
Course requirements
There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. You will need to identify these requirements and ensure you allow sufficient time to meet them.
This course has a number of compulsory clinical practice units. One of these units will require students to undertake a four week clinical placement experience scheduled during the November - February summer break prior to the commencement of the final year of studies.
Find out more about additional course requirements and costs.
Inherent requirements
There are some essential skills and abilities you'll need to perform to meet the core learning outcomes of your course or unit. They're not something you need to get into the course, but they'll be assessed throughout your course, and they'll be required for you to succeed in your career when you graduate.
Find out more about the inherent requirements for the Bachelor of Nursing.
Mandatory notifications
While you are registered as a student with the NMBA, QUT has an obligation to notify AHPRA if you have an impairment that may place the public at substantial risk of harm when undertaking clinical training. Find out more about the guidelines for mandatory notifications.
Blue card
This course requires you to have a blue card so you can participate in work placements and experience.
Your actual fees may vary depending on which units you choose. We review fees annually, and they may be subject to increases.
2022 fees
2022: CSP $5,100 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Additional Costs
There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. Some of these requirements have associated costs. Information is available from the Additional course requirements and costs website.
2022 fees
2022: $36,300 per year full-time (96 credit points)
Additional Costs
There are requirements that you will need to meet as a student in this course. Some of these requirements have associated costs. Information is available from the Additional course requirements and costs website.
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
Find out more about undergraduate course fees
HECS-HELP: loans to help you pay for your course fees
You may not have to pay anything upfront if you're eligible for a HECS-HELP loan.
You can apply for scholarships to help you with study and living costs.