Our degree offers significant hands-on opportunities to develop your x skills to a work-ready level.

Our Bachelor of Nursing will see you develop skills that will allow you to move freely between many clinical nursing professions. As a nurse, you can fulfill diverse roles such as direct caregivers, educators, researchers, managers and consultants.

When you graduate with a Bachelor of Nursing degree from the University of Newcastle you are eligible to apply to the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (APHRA).

You will experience the latest in simulation technologies and clinical skills laboratories that look and feel just like hospital wards.

If you study the Bachelor of Nursing degree you will be inspired by enthusiastic experienced clinical educators and internationally ranked researchers who bring their courses to life and share their love of learning. Find out more

You will experience simulation units and clinical skills laboratories that look and feel just like hospital wards. These are across all of our teaching campuses at Callaghan, Ourimbah and Port Macquarie. Find out more

A Bachelor of Nursing degree from the University of Newcastle makes you highly employable. The market for nurses is strong in New South Wales, Australia and overseas. Find out more

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Our Nursing degree offers you the opportunity to learn your skills in a simulated environment on-campus, as well as allowing you to undertake a minimum of 800 hours in real clinical settings such as hospitals, private practice.

You will experience simulation units and clinical skills laboratories that look and feel just like hospital wards. These are across all of our teaching campuses at Callaghan, Ourimbah and Port Macquarie.

Nurses face a dynamic and constantly changing technical environment. These laboratories create a realistic environment for the development of clinical skills before you go out and work with real patients in clinical settings. The School incorporates innovative teaching and learning methods into its undergraduate degree including the use of high fidelity human patient simulation manikins.

If you study the Bachelor of Nursing degree you will be inspired by enthusiastic experienced clinical educators and internationally ranked researchers who bring their courses to life and share their love of learning.

Enjoy both face-to-face and flexibly delivered courses. Flexible delivery includes courses studied on-line in clinical laboratories and on placement.

Teaching excellence that ensures well-developed knowledge, skills and clinical reasoning abilities and that prepares students for the dynamic and unpredictable nature of contemporary practice.

A Bachelor of Nursing degree from the University of Newcastle makes you highly employable. The market for nurses is strong in New South Wales, Australia and overseas.

Our graduates enjoy a wide choice of nursing careers within various industries including: Hospitals – accident and emergency, medical surgical wards, operating theatre, intensive care and paediatrics.

Community – community health, rural and remote health, Indigenous nursing, aged care and mental health.

Our graduates also have the chance to work in developing countries with the World Health Organisation and other non-government aid organisations.