Bachelor of Nursing
at Charles Darwin University, Northern Territory.
A three-year accredited nursing degree at Casuarina (Darwin), CDU Sydney and online, qualifying graduates to apply for registration as a registered nurse. CDU reports fewer than five ATAR-based offers (<5), so no selection rank is published; the minimum entry requirement is an ATAR of 60. No Year 12 prerequisites.
Lowest selection rank
CDU has not published a lowest selection rank for this course for recent intakes. That usually means too few ATAR-based offers were made to report one, or that selection also uses a portfolio, audition, interview or other criteria. Check the current entry requirements on the official course page.
Prerequisite Year 12 subjects
No formal Year 12 subject prerequisites; assumed knowledge may still apply.
What you will study
Students prepare to work as safe, collaborative and ethical registered nurses, responsive to local, national and regional healthcare needs. Practical skills are taught in one-week intensives in a clinical simulation suite; enrolled nurses have a separate pathway.
Placement and industry experience
Clinical placements in health services are a required part of the degree, alongside on-campus simulation intensives.
Career outcomes
- Graduates work as registered nurses in hospital, community and aged-care settings after registration with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency.
- Common destinations include public hospital graduate transition programmes, mental-health services and rural and remote nursing positions.
- Many alumni progress into specialty practice (intensive care, paediatrics, midwifery), nurse-practitioner study or clinical education roles.
Professional accreditation
- Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (approved program of study)
Typical first jobs
- Graduate registered nurse (NT Health graduate transition programme)
- Remote-area nurse (Aboriginal community-controlled health organisations)
- Mental-health nursing graduate
- Aged-care registered nurse
- Community-health nurse
- Paediatric or maternity ward graduate nurse
After graduation
Graduates can apply to the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia for registration as a Registered Nurse (Division 1).
Is this the right degree for you?
You probably thrive here if
- You want a clear vocational path into a registered nurse role in the NT
- You can manage shift work, weekends and rural placements
- You are committed to cultural safety and remote-Indigenous health practice
- You can handle medication calculations and closed-book pharmacology exams
- You are organised, empathetic and resilient under clinical pressure
It is probably not for you if
- You dislike shift work, night shifts or weekend rosters
- You cannot meet AHPRA mandatory vaccination and clearance requirements
- You are squeamish about bodily fluids and clinical procedures
- You want a desk-based or research-only health degree
Related courses at CDU
Sources
Course details are summarised by ExamExplained, not copied from the university. Confirm course content and selection ranks on the Charles Darwin University website and on SATAC before applying.