Bachelor of Nursing / Bachelor of Midwifery
Bachelor of Nursing / Bachelor of Midwifery
Developed in consultation with our healthcare partners, ensuring you’re always connected to those at the forefront of the industry, preparing you to provide high quality woman-centred midwifery care and patient-centred nursing care. Professional experience placements are undertaken in various metropolitan, regional, and rural healthcare settings and provide an opportunity to…
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
Developed in consultation with our healthcare partners, ensuring you’re always connected to those at the forefront of the industry, preparing you to provide high quality woman-centred midwifery care and patient-centred nursing care.
Professional experience placements are undertaken in various metropolitan, regional, and rural healthcare settings and provide an opportunity to care for women and people from diverse cultural backgrounds in a range of health care settings. Ranked #16 in the world for nursing this accredited course provides you with knowledge, skills, and ethical understanding required to become a successful registered nurse and midwife – once you graduate the choice is yours as to which career path you select.
Aspiring to enter the health care sector with the confidence to succeed as both a nurse and a midwife?
Under the supervision of registered nurses and midwives, you will gain real-world experience by working within multidisciplinary healthcare teams across areas including:
maternity care, including pregnancy, birthing and post-natal
neonatal special care
paediatrics
acute/sub-acute care
medical and surgical care
aged care
rehabilitation
community settings
mental health care settings.
Professional experience placements begin in Trimester 1 of your first year and continue throughout every trimester of the course with a total of 800 hours for nursing and 21 weeks for the midwifery component.
Gain a valuable mix of hands-on clinical practice and theory with a nursing and midwifery school ranked #16 in the world. As one of the most research-active schools in Australia, our School of Nursing and Midwifery boasts some of the best facilities and resources available.
As a nurse and midwife, you will be part of the largest health professional group in the world. This means your skills will be in-demand, both in Australia and overseas.
Career outcomes
Nursing and midwifery are careers rich with opportunity, you will be highly sought after by industry for your knowledge, critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills, professionalism, and the ability to provide woman-centred and person-centred evidence-based care – which is why we are proud to record a high graduate employment rate of over 93%.
As a registered nurse and registered midwife, you can pursue a global career in a range of work settings, such as:
hospitals
homes
hospices
aged care settings
clinics
schools
universities
government agencies and private industries.
Nursing and midwifery are diverse professions with a number of specialty practice areas available, it is expected that graduates will maintain professional development throughout their careers. This may include postgraduate degrees and/or research degrees, including masters and PhDs.
EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION
Deakin University is ranked in the top 1% of universities worldwide (ARWU).  It is a global leader in many areas of study including accounting and finance, business, engineering, education, nursing, sport science, and sport management. It is known for its industry-based learning, with all degrees offering the opportunity for work placements. Deakin has four campuses across the state of Victoria, offering high-quality teaching and first-rate facilities.  Our students love studying here – that is why Deakin University has been ranked #1 for course and student satisfaction in Victoria for 13 years (Australian Graduate Survey 2010–2015, Graduate Outcomes Survey 2016–2022 (GOS)).
