Bachelor of Midwifery/Bachelor of Nursing

During your Bachelor of Midwifery/Bachelor of Nursing degree, you'll acquire practical skills for each profession - and the healthcare knowledge common to both.

You'll practise your new skills in a safe environment on campus, using technology that simulates patient care. You'll also undertake many weeks' supported clinical practice, working with real patients. By the time you graduate, you'll be work-ready - with genuine experience caring for women through pregnancy, childbirth, and post-birth.

We will teach you to understand your patients' health needs, as well as their social need to feel safe in your care, based on:

• up-to-date and evidence-informed health care
• awareness and understanding of cultural safety and sensitivity 
• woman-centred and person-centred quality care
• development of professional relationships and workplace integration.

Nursing and midwifery complement each other perfectly, and give you choice and flexibility in your career. After graduating from this course, you'll be able to register and practise as a registered midwife and registered nurse.

Location: Please note that you will study at St Albans Campus for years 1-2, and at Sunshine Clinical School for years 3-4. 

Additional information

Police check: Students must complete a National Police Records check prior to undertaking hospital/agency placements on an annual basis.

Working with Children Check: Students must complete a Working with Children Check prior to undertaking clinical placements.

Health status: Students must be prepared to declare their fitness for practice and immunization status prior to undertaking hospital/agency placements.

A Clinical Placement fee applies in all situations where the student is enrolled in a unit with a clinical placement component and/or has been provided with a clinical placement opportunity and fails to meet minimum standards for external placement, this can include late cancellations, failure to attend, student and professional misconduct, failure to provide mandatory documentation, regardless if the student discontinues prior to the enrolled Census Date. For placement fee details relevant to your course refer to https://www.vu.edu.au/current-students/your-course/fees/additional-fees-....

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR ALL DOMESTIC STUDENTS ON NURSING AND MIDWIFERY BOARD OF AUSTRALIA (NMBA) ENGLISH LANGUAGE SKILLS REGISTRATION STANDARDS
Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they meet the requirements of the NMBA English language skills registration standard. Proof of this English language competency can be achieved via ONE of the following two pathways:

Primary Language Pathway

Students are to provide a declaration that English is their primary language;

OR

English Language Test Pathway

Applicants must be able to demonstrate that they have achieved the required minimum scores in one of the following English language tests and meet the requirements for test results specified in NMBA's English language skills registration standard:
• IELTS (Academic): minimum overall band of 7.0 (with no individual band less than 7.0); OR
• OET: minimum score of B in each of the four bands; OR
• TOEFL iBT: minimum overall score of 94 (with minimum score of 24 in listening and reading, 27 in writing and 23 in speaking) OR
• PTE (A): with a minimum overall score of 65 and a minimum score of 65 in each of the four communicative skills (listening, reading, writing and speaking).

National recognition for nursing

In the 2015 Excellence in Research (Australia) ratings, nursing at VU was given the highest rating of 5 (well above world standard).

Accreditation

The Bachelor of Midwifery/Bachelor of Nursing is accredited by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Accreditation Council (ANMAC) (external link).