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Opportunities for Nursing Grads

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A range of options is available to you after completing your Bachelor of Nursing, depending on your interests and career goals.

Choose from a range of options to progress from your role as a registered nurse including:

  • clinical nursing roles
  • nurse practitioner roles
  • specialist nursing fields.

Or you may decide your next career move is to enhance your skills and knowledge in a complementary health or nursing field.

Whatever your choice, furthering your nursing education will see you continue to touch the lives of so many in one of the world’s most trusted professions.

Advance your knowledge

Clinical Nursing

Enhance your employability and advance your nursing career with a postgraduate degree in Clinical Nursing.

Correctional Nursing

Gain the skills and expertise to work in the unique, complex world of correctional facilities with a qualification in Correctional Nursing.

Domestic and Family Violence Studies

Help respond to and break the cycles of domestic and family violence with a specialist postgraduate degree from CQU. 

Gerontology

Advance your understanding, skills and capabilities in responding to a diverse ageing population with a specialist postgrad nursing degree.

Mental Health Nursing

Gain foundational knowledge or qualify yourself as a specialist nurse with a postgraduate degree in Mental Health Nursing.  

Midwifery

Enjoy a rewarding career looking after women during pregnancy, labour and the postnatal period as a qualified midwife.

Enhance your skills

Emergency and Disaster Management

Begin a career or upgrade your skills and qualifications in Emergency and Disaster Management with CQU's online courses.

Emergency and Health Services Management

Develop effective leadership and management skills with postgraduate courses designed for the healthcare and emergency services industries.

Environmental Health

Learn how to identify and control the environmental factors that impact on human health and kick-start a diverse and rewarding career.

Health Promotion

Promote healthy behaviours and help prevent disease through a proactive and rewarding career in Health Promotion. 

Positive Psychology

Advance your career and expand your professional knowledge in positive human development with a postgraduate Positive Psychology course.

Counter-Terrorism and Operational Medicine

Prepare yourself with the theoretical knowledge and practical skills to respond in acute trauma situations and high threat environments.

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    When I did my bachelors, all the way through to now, doing my masters, the teaching staff have been incredible. They're always super accommodating and always try to help us, they don’t work against us.

    Rhiana Jackson

    Bachelor of Nursing, Master of Mental Health Nursing

Diploma of Nursing graduates

Ready for the next step in your career? Our Bachelor of Nursing prepares you for a role as a Registered Nurse. Plus, you will receive credit for your diploma studies.

Bachelor of Nursing

Change your career

Teaching

CQU's undergraduate and postgraduate Teaching courses have a strong focus on practical placements to ensure you graduate work-ready.  

CC57 - Master of Professional Accounting

Interested in a career change? If you hold a bachelor degree in any discipline, diversify your career with this accounting course.

CL39 - Master of Business Administration (Leadership)

Discover more about our MBA (Leadership), designed to meet industry expectations with an intentionally lean course design.

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Get in touch to discuss your options

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