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From the first day of your first year, you'll find a community committed to helping you succeed. You’ll be supported in your learning by nursing academics, with decades of experience, and practice your skills using the latest technology in modern facilities. You’ll fit in. Nursing students come from many different backgrounds, but they all share a passion for helping people. At QUT, you’ll find friends, mentors and a pathway to your future career.
Find your future in nursing
From the first day of your first year, you'll find a community committed to helping you succeed. You’ll be supported in your learning by nursing academics, with decades of experience, and practice your skills using the latest technology in modern facilities. You’ll fit in. Nursing students come from many different backgrounds, but they all share a passion for helping people. At QUT, you’ll find friends, mentors and a pathway to your future career.
Highlights
- Receive one year advanced standing (credit) if you have current AHPRA registration as an enrolled nurse with qualifications completed within 10 years prior to admission.
- Save time and money and graduate with a Bachelor of Nursing qualification sooner.
- QUT was the first provider of tertiary nurse education in Queensland and has more than 40 years of experience and industry consultation.
- We are ranked sixth in Australia for nursing by the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024.
- All students are scheduled for 840 hours of clinical practice in a diverse range of clinical settings, including rural and remote, with a minimum of 800 hours required for registration.
Highlights
- Receive one year advanced standing (credit) if you have current AHPRA registration as an enrolled nurse with qualifications completed within 10 years prior to admission.
- Save time and money and graduate with a Bachelor of Nursing qualification sooner.
- QUT was the first provider of tertiary nurse education in Queensland and has more than 40 years of experience and industry consultation.
- We are ranked sixth in Australia for nursing by the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024.
- All students are scheduled for 840 hours of clinical practice in a diverse range of clinical settings, including rural and remote, with a minimum of 800 hours required for registration.
Why choose this course?
QUT will recognise your diploma qualifications so you can graduate in two years instead of three. If you are an enrolled nurse with a current AHPRA registration and you completed your diploma within 10 years prior to admission to the Bachelor of Nursing, you can receive one year of advanced standing (credit).
Nurses are in high demand across Australia and play an important role in the delivery of person-centred care within a range of settings. QUT equips nursing graduates with the capability to engage people as informed partners in their health care.
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 School of Nursing is one of Australia's largest and most established nursing school, with over 40 years of industry consultation and experience. We are ranked sixth in Australia for nursing by the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2024.
QUT collaborates with industry partners, discipline, and research experts to develop course content that reflects the latest emerging healthcare trends and related nursing practice. You will learn from some of Australia’s most respected and influential nurse academics and researchers.
Real-world learning
You will develop your skills and confidence, learning in purpose-built, on-campus facilities that replicate the hospital environment, technology, and equipment. Realistic scenarios and practical learning approaches will prepare you 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 second semester of your 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 nurses. 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.
You will use your prior study as an enrolled nurse to launch straight into the second year of the Bachelor of Nursing. You will develop your understanding of pharmacology, emphasising 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 delivering more complex interventions in various healthcare settings and across diverse populations.
Inherent requirements
There are some essential skills and abilities you'll need to meet the core learning outcomes of your course or unit. They're not something you need to get in to the course, but they'll be assessed throughout your course, and these capabilities will 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.
Work Integrated Learning
During this course you will be required to complete a minimum of 800 hours of clinical placement.
Careers and outcomes
Nurses are in high demand around Australia according to the 2022 Skills Priority List. Nursing graduates have excellent employment opportunities in a variety of health care settings or health promotion agencies.
Nursing is one of the most diverse health professions and provides employment opportunities in Australia and overseas.
Employment can be in general and specialist areas such as emergency, paediatrics or mental health, and in areas of health care beyond the traditional hospital ward including community health, 'hospital in the home' care, school health, alcohol and drug dependence, and the armed services.
You could choose to complete further study and become specialist in acute care nursing, cancer nursing, emergency nursing, intensive care nursing, mental health nursing, or paediatric, child and youth health nursing.
Nurses are in demand all over the world and QUT nursing graduates have been successful in obtaining employment overseas, including in Britain, European Union, New Zealand and North America.
Professional recognition
NS42 Bachelor of Nursing is recognised by the Australian College of Nursing as satisfying the academic requirements for admission as a professional member. NS42 Bachelor of Nursing is an accredited Nursing Pre-registration course of the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council / Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia.
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.
Possible careers
- Nurse
As this is a new course, the threshold will be available mid-January 2025
- Course code
- NS42
- QTAC code
- 425241
- CRICOS code
- 003501K
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- Kelvin Grove
- 2 years full-time
- 4 years part-time
- February and July
Entry requirements
You must have current AHPRA registration as an Enrolled Nurse (Division 2) (General) without restriction etc.
You must have completed one of the following qualifications in 2015 or more recently:
- HLT54121 Diploma of Nursing
- HLT54115 Diploma of Nursing
- HLT51612 Diploma of Nursing (Enrolled - Division 2 nursing)
If:
- You do not have current registration; or
- You have current registration with restrictions etc; or
- Your diploma was completed more than 10 years ago.
You will need to undertake the full three-year program Bachelor of Nursing (QTAC code 425231); i.e. you will not be eligible for advanced standing for your diploma studies.
Offer guarantee
If you achieve an ATAR or selection rank of 80.00 or higher (including any adjustments) and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
VET guarantee
If you have completed an AQF diploma or higher, and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
Advanced standing
If you have prior studies or work experience, you may be eligible for advanced standing (credit). You can apply for advanced standing once you've been accepted to QUT. If you're in your first semester of study, you must apply for advanced standing within 10 days of receiving your offer.
Deferment
You can't defer your offer in this course. You must start in the semester you apply for.
Adjustments to your ATAR/selection rank
Any adjustments you receive to your ATAR or selection rank will be applied to this course.
Find out if you’re eligible for an adjustment to your ATAR or selection rank
Offers we made to school leavers in Semester 1, 2024
As this is a new course, Semester 1, 2024 information is not available
Other admission options
If you are of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent, you may be eligible for admission through our Centralised Assessment Selection Process (CASP).
I completed secondary school in Australia
Offer guarantee
If you completed secondary school in Australia and achieve an ATAR/selection rank of 80.00 or higher (including any adjustments) and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
VET guarantee
If you have completed an AQF diploma or higher, and satisfy all other admission requirements, you are guaranteed an offer for this course.
Minimum English language requirements
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.
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.
2025 fees
2025: CSP $5,800 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.
2025 fees
2025: $42,300 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.
Fees
Fees
Student services and amenities fees
You may need to pay student services and amenities (SA) fees as part of your course costs.
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.
Updates about this course
This course is available from 2025 onwards
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