将护理知识和技能应用于优先公共卫生领域，包括土著健康，老年护理和疾病风险因素。在此课程中，您将完成800多个小时的实习时间。该职位将在包括医院和私人医疗机构在内的临床护理环境中，以及与公共卫生专业人员一起在办公室，实验室或基于现场的环境中进行。公共卫生安置也可能在国外完成。本课程的毕业生可以将护理知识和技能应用于公共卫生领域，例如土著健康，人口健康问题和患病风险因素。具有这些学科技能的专业人员可以选择在临床环境中担任护士或公共卫生专业人员，以实施改善社区健康的新方法。
All students are scheduled for 840 hours of clinical practice with a minimum of 800 hours required for registration for nursing. This placement will be in clinical nursing environments including hospital and private healthcare facilities, and in office, laboratory or site-based environments alongside public health professionals. Public health placements may also be completed overseas.Graduates of this course can apply nursing knowledge and skills to public health areas such as Indigenous health, population health issues and risk factors for illness. Professionals who are skilled across these disciplines can choose to work as a nurse in the clinical environment or as a public health professional, implementing new ways to improve community health.Graduates may also work in non-government and community organisations in roles that focus on advocacy for minority groups, or as consultants and project officers in international health agencies. Roles may include health promotion officers, school health educators, assistant epidemiologists, researchers, state and national health program managers and health policy officers.