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Bachelor of Midwifery (Graduate Entry)

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This course offers bachelor-qualified nurses and paramedics the opportunity to qualify with a Bachelor of Midwifery. Applicants to the course must be registered nurses or currently practicing paramedics.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor
Duration
2 years full-time

About this course

This course offers bachelor-qualified nurses and paramedics the opportunity to qualify with a Bachelor of Midwifery. Applicants to the course must be registered nurses or currently practicing paramedics.

Graduates may work in maternity settings such as hospitals, birth centres, special care nurseries and other community agencies.

This midwifery course will teach you how to:

  • manage normal pregnancy and childbirth
  • provide effective postnatal, maternal and newborn care to women and their newborn infant
  • provide safe and reliable care that meets the individual psychological, emotional, physical, social and spiritual needs of women.

Bachelor of Midwifery students will undertake over 1000 hours of midwifery clinical practice throughout the course in hospital and community settings. The students will also engage with a minimum of ten women to follow their pregnancy, labour, birth and postnatal care journey called their Continuity of Care Experiences (CCE). This experience involves the student recruiting the woman in early pregnancy and attending appointments throughout. If possible, the student attends the labour and birth and follows the woman after discharge home up to six weeks following birth.

Possible career paths include:

  • registered midwife within maternity settings
  • consultant midwife
  • clinical specialist
  • antenatal educator
  • special care nurseries
  • researcher
  • family care
  • independent midwifery practitioner.

Entry requirements

An applicant must also comply with the Admission to Coursework Programs Policy.

To be eligible for admission to the Bachelor of Midwifery (Graduate Entry) an applicant must have either completed:

    1. a Bachelor of Nursing with a grade point average of at least 4.0 on the ACU seven point scale; AND
    2. one year of post-registration clinical practice; AND
    3. be a Registered Nurse with the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency (AHPRA)
      OR
    1. a Bachelor of Paramedicine with a grade point average of at least 4.0 on the ACU seven point scale AND
    2. be a Registered Paramedic with a minimum of one year field experience.

*Disclaimer: The Course entry requirements above are for 2020 Admission. Refer to your relevant Tertiary Admission Centre website for future years' entry requirements.

Study locations

Brisbane

Career pathways

Graduates can pursue a range of careers including: midwife, consultant midwife, special care nurseries, clinical specialist, pre-natal educator, researcher, family care and child health centre professional.