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Turn your care and compassion into a rewarding and varied career providing crucial care to people when they need it most, and join the next generation of nurses improving community health and wellbeing. Put theory into practice in state-of-the-art nursing and midwifery simulation labs and ward environments, and learn to provide care to a variety of patients. Empathy is essential to being a good nurse, so you’ll gain understanding for family members, and experience care provision from ‘the other side of the bed’. You’ll be encouraged, through your core curriculum unit, to look at the world with empathy and confidence, to listen and lead, to treat everyone with dignity and respect, and to develop the courage to make an impact.
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Our nursing graduates have pursued careers as:
Raised in Ipswich in southeast Queensland, Dr Derek Chong is the state's first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander psychiatrist. He has worked at the coalface of health, starting out as a residential care worker and going on to graduate with a Bachelor of Nursing from ACU in 1999, while working as a registered psychiatric nurse.
Nurse Christine Shanahan has worked the wards of Sydney’s hospitals, but she has also treated sexual violence victims in Sudan, diagnosed diseases from a tin shed in Timor Leste, opened a pharmacy in post-Soviet Turkmenistan, and nursed her way around a series of Australian outback hospitals.
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