Program Overview

Program Overview

The Bachelor of Nursing prepares students for the exciting and challenging role of the Registered Nurse. This course offers a comprehensive range of theoretical and clinical nursing subjects that together provide the knowledge, skills, and professional values graduates require to provide safe, effective, and compassionate nursing care.

Program Structure

The program is three years full-time (or equivalent part-time), consisting of both theoretical and practical components. Clinical learning is a key element of the course, and clinical placements in healthcare settings begin in the first session of the first year and continue every session thereafter. Simulation-based learning opportunities are integral to the course and are designed to assist students in preparing for clinical placements and their future role as a Registered Nurse.

Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation

The Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCII) enhances discipline-specific studies with a powerful, future-focused edge. Designed as a transdisciplinary degree, the BCII brings together students from a wide range of fields to develop advanced skills in critical and creative thinking, innovation, complexity, collaboration, entrepreneurship, and future scenario planning.

Program Details

• Credit Points: 240
• Duration: 4 years
• Location: City campus
• Language of Instruction: English
• Faculty: Health, TD School
• Study Level: Undergraduate
• Award(s): Bachelor of Nursing (BN), Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation (BCIInn)

Learning Outcomes

Upon completion of this course, graduates will be able to:

1. Demonstrate an ability to plan and provide safe, holistic, and compassionate person-centred nursing care in partnership with individuals, respecting their lived experiences and advocating for their needs and cultural values.
2. Understand and apply appropriate professional codes and standards, demonstrating accountability to and responsibility for ethical, equitable, sustainable, and legal nursing practice.
3. Source and critically analyse a range of best available evidence, including clinical expertise and individual needs, values, and preferences to inform nursing practice.
4. Critically reflect on and learn from previous experiences to improve practice in addressing novel and emergent healthcare problems.
5. Effectively communicate and collaborate with individuals, peers, and other professionals to facilitate person-centred care.
6. Develop knowledge of Indigenous Australian contexts to inform and apply culturally safe work practices to work as reflective practitioners with and for Indigenous Australians within the healthcare profession.
7. Identify and evaluate complex challenges by analysing system dynamics, constraints, and potential leverage points, using disciplinary perspectives, evidence, and diverse viewpoints.
8. Identify, create, and employ a range of appropriate creative intelligence methods and boundary-crossing methodologies to construct and solve problems and generate transformative possibilities.
9. Practice mutual, responsible value creation, including the implementation of sustainable and entrepreneurial innovation.
10. Communicate transdisciplinary ideas and solutions succinctly and persuasively using appropriate modalities.
11. Develop reflexive connection with an evolving self, demonstrating ethical and intellectual positions that reflect well-considered values that enable greater purpose and inclusivity.
12. Critically reflect on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People's contexts across innovation and entrepreneurship to inform professional capability and practices to work effectively with and for Indigenous Australians.

Inherent Requirements

Inherent requirements are academic and non-academic requirements that are essential for successfully completing a course at UTS. The inherent requirements for this course can be found via the inherent requirements directory.

Accreditation

The Bachelor of Nursing course is accredited by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) and approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA). This accreditation ensures that the program meets the highest standards of nursing education and prepares students to become Registered Nurses (RNs) in Australia.