东部理工学院

A nursing education from EIT is highly regarded with graduate nurses being recognised nationally and internationally. When you graduate with a nursing degree you’ll be fully equipped to provide healthcare to people at every stage of life.

You’ll develop, practice and refine your learning in a ‘hands on’ way in our Clinical Arts and Technology (CAT) Centre, which is set up like a working hospital.

Building on your compassionate nature you’ll learn how to assess and manage patients in hospitals and the wider community, while working alongside other health professionals.

Outline

The Bachelor of Nursing (BN) is a full-time, three year programme (or five year equivalent part-time) which offers you stimulating undergraduate degree level studies and provides a pathway to your professional qualification as a New Zealand registered nurse.

The BN programme enables you to enter practice as a registered nurse with a sound knowledge base of nursing theory, social sciences, biological sciences, research and professional nursing practice skills. Theoretical and nursing practice experiences are balanced throughout the programme. Practice experiences occur in a wide range of community and acute health care settings and comprise approximately fifty percent of the programme.

The BN programme is delivered in a blended mode. This means that there will be both face-to-face and online teaching and learning. You will need to have access to a computer with broadband facilities.

Subject Areas

• Anatomy and physiology
• Therapeutic communication
• Knowledge of professional nursing practice – aged residential care, primary, secondary and tertiary healthcare
• Cultural safety and cultural competence
• Human development
• Health promotion
• Health in Aotearoa
• Maori health
• Mental health
• Pathophysiology
• Pharmacology
• Evidence-based practice

Career Opportunities and Outcomes

Nursing is a professional practice and an essential part of health care. EIT nursing graduates have high rates of employment.

Possible jobs and career opportunities can include:

• Public and private hospitals
• Community health
• Plunket (Well Child Health)
• Independent practice
• Public health
• Nursing education
• Child health
• Mental health
• Registered nurse prescribing
• Nurse practitioner