Bachelor of Nursing (Clinical Leadership)
2025 Deakin University Handbook
| Year | 2025 course information |
|---|---|
| Award granted | Bachelor of Nursing (Clinical Leadership) |
| Deakin course code | H329 |
| Faculty | Faculty of Health |
| Campus | Offered at Burwood (Melbourne) |
| Online | No |
| Duration | 3 years full-time The course is only available to students on a full-time basis. |
| Course Map - enrolment planning tool | This course map is for new students commencing from Trimester 1 2025 Course maps for commencement in previous years are available on the Course Maps webpage or please contact a Student Adviser in Student Central. |
| Australian Qualifications Framework (AQF) recognition | The award conferred upon completion is recognised in the Australian Qualifications Framework at Level 7 |
Course sub-headings
- Course overview
- Indicative student workload
- Professional recognition
- Career opportunities
- Participation requirements
- Mandatory student checks
- Pathways
- Articulated courses
- Course Learning Outcomes
- Course rules
- Course structure
- Work experience
- Fees and charges
Course overview
Deakin's Bachelor of Nursing (Clinical Leadership) is the only undergraduate degree of its kind in Victoria. A specialist degree that builds on the core units of our Bachelor of Nursing with three additional core units focused on developing and enhancing your leadership potential. Through mentored learning experiences, you will observe and work alongside nurse leaders from our partner organisations, and experienced academics from our School of Nursing and Midwifery - ranked #16 in the world.*
Study with Victoria's #1 university for nursing teaching practices, facilities and support services.^ Build your clinical skills in our state-of-the-art Clinical Simulation Centres, which replicate real-world health service facilities, preparing you for your professional experience placements. You will gain the ethical understanding, knowledge and skills you need to become a successful registered nurse – a career that makes a real difference.
Eager to use your leadership skills to help those in need?
Professional experience placements begin in Trimester 1 of your first year and continue throughout every trimester of the course, totalling 800 hours.
Professional experience placements provide an opportunity to care for people from diverse cultural backgrounds in a range of healthcare settings, enabling application of knowledge and further development of technical and non-technical skills. You will gain extensive opportunities to develop clinical skills under the supervision of registered nurses and enables you to experience being part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team.
Your professional experience placements will be undertaken in various metropolitan, regional, and rural healthcare settings providing you with a broader understanding. You will gain clinical experience in a variety of settings including:
- acute/sub-acute care
- medical and surgical care
- aged care
- rehabilitation
- community settings
- mental healthcare settings.
Nurses are in demand with the government’s job projections for registered nurses expected to grow by 12.2% by 2028.#
Healthcare is one of the most important priorities for populations worldwide, with nurses playing a pivotal role in delivering quality and safe services. Thanks to our extensive clinical partnership network with many of Victoria’s major healthcare providers, this course is designed to ensure you gain the leadership knowledge and hands-on skills that are most relevant to employers in the healthcare sector.
As part of your core leadership units in this specialised degree, you’ll participate in mentored learning experiences, providing you with the opportunity to observe and work with:
- clinical nurse leaders from our partners in clinical settings
- research professors from the School of Nursing and Midwifery
- world-class educators from the School of Nursing and Midwifery.
The course is also accredited by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) and approved by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA), enabling clear career outcomes upon graduation.
Ranked in the top 1% of universities globally~, our School of Nursing and Midwifery is one of Australia’s most research-active schools and boasts some of the best facilities and resources available. Focusing on clinical nursing leadership and management, research, and education – meaning you are well-rounded graduate with the added benefit of the valuable leadership skills you have learnt. You will be ready to successfully take on the role of a registered nurse and have taken the first step towards leading and inspiring others in your future career.
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*2023 ShanghaiRankings Global Ranking of Academic Subjects
^Student Experience Survey 2021-2022 based on undergraduate nursing students. Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT).
~2024 QS World University Rankings by Subject and 2023 ShanghaiRankings Global Ranking of Academic Subjects
#2023 Occupation Projections - for the five years to 2028, Australian Government, Jobs and Skills Australia.
Indicative student workload
As a student in the Faculty of Health you can expect to participate in a range of learning activities each week. This may include lectures, seminars, simulations, and online interaction. You can refer to the individual unit details in the course structure for more information. You will also need to study and complete assessment tasks in your own time.
Professional recognition
On successful completion of your course, you will be eligible to apply for registration as a Registered Nurse with the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (NMBA).
The NMBA has mandatory registration standards that applicants need to meet to be registered. Core registration standards are available on the NMBA website.
This course is accredited with the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) and is an NMBA approved course.
Career opportunities
As a Deakin nursing graduate, you will be highly sought after by industry for your nursing knowledge, critical thinking, problem solving and communication skills, professionalism, and the ability to provide person-centred, evidence-based care – which is why we are proud to record a high graduate employment rate of over 93%.*
Focusing on clinical nursing leadership and management, research and education, you will be able to bring your nursing and leadership skills to life in a range of professional settings. You may find roles in all areas of nursing, such as:
- acute care/sub-acute care
- emergency
- aged care
- paediatrics.
In terms of settings, you may find work in:
- hospitals
- homes
- hospices
- aged care settings
- clinics
- schools
- universities
- community health centres
- government agencies and private industries.
*Graduate Outcomes Survey 2021-2023, based on overall employment for undergraduate nursing graduates, Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT).
Participation requirements
Professional experience placement can occur at any time, including during the standard holiday breaks.
Reasonable adjustments to participation and other course requirements will be made for students with a disability.
In addition, this course requires participation in 60 hours of mentored experiences.
Inherent requirements
A number of inherent requirements are essential to safely perform the skills and functions of the nursing role and consequently to undertake and successfully complete the course. Learn more about the School of Nursing and Midwifery's Undergraduate Courses Inherent Requirements.
Mandatory student checks
Department of Health – Safety Screening Requirements - Police Record Check, Working With Children Check and Immunisation Status
Police Record Check
In accordance with the Department of Health policy, all students are required to undertake a Police Record Check prior to professional experience placements in each calendar year of their course. Students who fail to obtain a Police Record Check prior to the commencement of professional experience placement will not be able to undertake professional experience placement and this will impede progress in the course.
Working With Children Check
In accordance with the Worker Screening Act 2020, all students are required to undertake a Working with Children Check at the commencement of their course. Students who fail to obtain a Working with Children Check prior to the commencement of professional experience placement will not be able to undertake professional experience placement and this will impede progress in the course.
Immunisation Status
Students are required to declare their immunisation status to satisfy the requirements of health organisations where they will be undertaking their clinical learning experience. A health organisation may refuse to accept a student for placement if the student’s immunisation status is not satisfactory to the health organisation.
Pathways
This course provides a pathway to higher degree by research courses and other postgraduate coursework programs.
Articulated courses
| Bachelor of Nursing (Honours) (H421) |
Course Learning Outcomes
| Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes | Course Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|
| Apply nursing knowledge and capability in accordance with legal and ethical requirements to deliver comprehensive, holistic, culturally appropriate, evidence based, safe and quality care. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| Foster effective therapeutic and professional relationships to ensure safe and quality care across the lifespan. | GLO2: Communication |
| Use digital technologies in healthcare to locate, interpret and disseminate information and deliver quality and safe patient care. | GLO3: Digital literacy |
| Thinks critically, analyses evidence and evaluates outcomes to inform quality nursing practice. | GLO4: Critical thinking |
| Self-manage behaviours to develop and maintain critical nursing knowledge, understanding and skills to ensure capability for practice in self and others. | GLO6: Self-management |
Course rules
To complete the Bachelor of Nursing (Clinical Leadership) students must pass 24 credit points and meet the following course rules to be eligible to graduate:
- DAI001 Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0-credit-point compulsory unit) in their first study period
- 24 credit points of core units
Students are required to meet the University's academic progress and conduct requirements. See the enrolment codes and terminology to help make sense of the University’s vocabulary.
Course structure
Core units
Level 1 - Trimester 1
| DAI001 | Academic Integrity and Respect at Deakin (0 credit points) |
| HNN120 | Quality and Safety in Health Care 1 |
| HNN108 | Evidence-Based Practice |
| HBS109 | Introduction to Anatomy and Physiology |
| HNN112 | Quality and Safety: Nursing Practice 1 |
Level 1 - Trimester 2
| HNN154 | Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples' History, Culture and Health |
| HNN104 | Care of the Child and Adolescent |
| HNN114 | Person-Centred Health Assessment |
| HNN124 | Quality and Safety: Nursing Practice 2 |
Level 2 - Trimester 1
| HNN215 | Quality Use of Medicines |
| HNN227 | Acute Illness and Supportive Care (2 credit points) |
| HNN208 | Perspectives on Leadership and Management |
Level 2 - Trimester 2
| HNN210 | Perspectives on Research Leadership |
| HNN217 | Primary Health Care |
| HNN222 | Mental Health and Supportive Care (2 credit points) |
Level 3 - Trimester 1
| HNN318 | Care of the Older Person |
| HNN329 | Chronic Illness and Supportive Care (2 credit points) |
| HNN321 | Perspectives on Educational Leadership |
Level 3 - Trimester 2
| HNN320 | Quality and Safety in Health Care 2 |
| HNN301 | Mental Health and Wellbeing |
| HNN325 | Quality and Safety: Comprehensive Nursing Practice (2 credit points) |
Work experience
Professional experience placement
Professional experience placements are conducted throughout your course beginning in Trimester 1 of your first year. This early exposure to the clinical environment gives you extensive opportunities to develop clinical skills under the supervision of registered nurses and enables you to experience being part of a multidisciplinary healthcare team. You will gain clinical experience in a variety of settings including acute/sub-acute care, medical and surgical care, aged care, rehabilitation, community nursing and mental health nursing. Placements may be undertaken in hospitals and community health care centres in metropolitan, rural and regional areas.
In addition, this course requires participation in 60 hours of mentored experiences.
To be eligible to undertake placements, you are required to supply mandatory documents (prerequisites) including police checks, working with children check and immunisation status.
Course duration
Course duration may be affected by delays in completing course requirements, such as failing of units or accessing or completing placements.
Further information
Student Central can help you with course planning, choosing the right units and explaining course rules and requirements.
- Contact Student Central
Fees and charges
Fees and charges vary depending on the type of fee place you hold, your course, your commencement year, the units you choose to study, and their study discipline or your study load.
Tuition fees increase at the beginning of each calendar year and all fees quoted are in Australian dollars ($AUD). Tuition fees do not include textbooks, computer equipment or software, other equipment or costs such as mandatory checks, travel and stationery.
For further information regarding tuition fees, other fees and charges, invoice due dates, withdrawal dates, payment methods visit our Current students website.