At the School of Nursing and Midwifery, you’ll learn how to apply your skills on clinical placements and in our nursing simulation centres – great preparation for your chosen nursing or midwifery career.
Specialise in the nursing field of your choice
We offer courses across a broad range of nursing disciplines, including clinical leadership, cardiac care nursing, critical care nursing, diabetes education, emergency care nursing, intensive care nursing, midwifery and perioperative nursing.
Students can be confident that they are receiving a world-class education that enables them to be job ready and in demand upon graduation. Key nurses, midwives, clinicians and researchers inform the courses and ensure learning experiences are modern and evidence-based, providing best practice healthcare.
Professor Nikki Phillips
Head of School of Nursing and Midwifery
Extensive clinical placement hours are embedded within many of our undergraduate and postgraduate degrees, allowing you to work in real healthcare settings from your very first trimester of undergraduate study. Our strong network of partners gives you access to a wide variety of clinical learning experiences.
Learn in our state-of-the-art, purpose-built clinical simulation centres at our Melbourne Burwood, Geelong Waterfront and Warrnambool campuses. They contain purpose-built, flexible learning spaces and simulated clinical settings that provide a safe, supportive and realistic environment for you to develop core clinical nursing and midwifery skills.
Our school was established in 1987 and has grown to be one of the largest nursing schools in Australia. We are ranked #16 in the world for nursing* and our school’s research is recognised as well above world standard^ with a focus on improving health care quality and patient safety, through the Centre for Quality and Patient Safety.
Find out how Deakin’s Professor Lauren McTier became a nurse and then moved into mentoring and teaching – now our Deputy Head of School and Associate Head Teaching and Learning. Lauren gives us an insight into how Deakin has been able to maintain an excellent reputation here and overseas in the nursing field.
As a student or researcher, you’ll learn from and collaborate with staff who are well recognised for their contributions to the field. Our academics and researchers bring a wealth of clinical experience to their work, ensuring what we do is informed by real-world nursing and midwifery practice.
We have a strong research culture and a proud history of applying findings to clinical practice, education programs and healthcare policy. Our nursing and midwifery research is conducted through our Centre for Quality and Patient Safety. You’ll benefit from access to a range of hospitals and healthcare agencies through our well-established clinical partnership network.
Deakin partners with a wide network of health care organisations for both clinical placement and research opportunities. Find out about our clinical placement partners and the strong research partnerships we have in our clinical partnership network.
*2023 ShanghaiRanking's Global Ranking of Academic Subjects
^Excellence in Research Australia (ERA) 2018
If you have any questions about nursing or midwifery courses or research, please contact us.
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