School of Nursing

The mission of the School of Nursing is to promote world-class quality nursing practice through excellence in student centred integrated learning and teaching, and research; to actively contribute to the profession and community and; to provide a supportive and productive work environment. We work collaboratively across professions, and with a range of stakeholders and clinical practice settings at a state, national and international level.

The School of Nursing at the University of Adelaide brings together an energetic, enthusiastic group of nursing clinicians and academics interested in furthering nursing as a practice and as a discipline.

Established in collaboration with Royal Adelaide Hospital, the School of Nursing has been delivering postgraduate clinical education to Registered Nurses around the world since 1995.

Our academic staff are highly experienced clinicians and our teaching is informed by active, ongoing research that focuses on the experiences of health and illness, the practice of nursing and the effects of nursing practice on health outcomes. We believe that it is essential for nursing education to focus on the real world of practice and to generate strategies that will improve the health of individuals and communities through nursing knowledge and advanced nursing practice. We are closely aligned with clinical practice in the hospital, in the community and in residential care; and it is this that is the focus of our research.

Professor Alison Kitson Head of School