een diploma at gcit

I am already doing my diploma through GCIT, kell85. I started online in November. I too am a mature age student. I am 41 though with 6 kids so it has been a long time since I studied. I found it really challenging to teach myself how to learn when I started but I loved it on the first day and I am still loving it! At times I find doing it online tough. Juggling everything and not knowing if what I am doing is the right thing or enough but every time I start a new topic I get a buzz out of the new information.

Good Luck and enjoy!

I am just about to start online at GCIT in March. I am 44 with two kids and havent been close to a real classroom since 1987. I am currently working in a busy public hospital dealing with the seedier side of hospital life.

Great to see so many of us mum in our 40's doing the course. Its going to be great to catch up with you all in march. Looking forward to it...

Awwwww sorry blackbird, please accept my apologies i should not have generalised like that. Looking forward to meeting all the mature aged mum and dads starting in March! :-)

Hi jojo,
Welcome and looking forward to meeting you. I have wanted to do this course also for the last 30 years and I am finally doing it now so I am very excited also. All tafes do require you to do residential school to ensure we are competent and are assessed on our practical knowledge that we are learning through the course. I think though we only attend 3 times during the 3 semesters we are there. Looking forward to meet you :-)

Hi everyone.

A few people have mentioned studying the Dip of Nursing at Southport tafe PART TIME ?? When I look it up I cant find it part time, can someone please give me the details... am I too late to enrol and how much are the fee's ?? Maybe there's a mid year intake ? I am also mature age :)

Anyone doing the Diploma in Nursing course full time at GCIT starting in March 2012??

Hi Lainey

I am 48 years old and a single mum and work fulltime. I just started this course in March part time through GCIT. I tell you the hardest thing to get used to is the studying again. I found that I need to organise myself really well, so when i get home from work, tea is pretty much prepeared and i start studying between 5 and 5.30pm and do so until 7.30pm at night when my teen is stuyding as well. I wont lie to you and tell you it wasnt easy at the start but 4 weeks in i am loving it and am so glad to be doing it now that i am in the swing of it. I wouldnt change it for anything in the world, its so interesting and there isnt anything i would change about it. Like you, nursing has been my dream since i was a teen so i can highly recommend this course to you. You will love it... 

I feel your pain lainey, but from just chatting to you a couple of times u know what you will breeze it. You are a teachers aide so you are already organised, just have to get the home part of it out of the way like dinner , homework with the kids, and dedicate 2 or 3 hours a weeknight to studying and doing the online lessons and reading. I also study on the weekend, full on when we have a quiz but just about 4 hours sat or sun. You will know what you need and what you can do, you will love it. I heard also it was hard to get in but i did not have any problems, I know from some emails and notices we have been getting there are about 200 students at the moment studying Dip of Nursing. I dont think you will have a problem. I went to the site, clicked on the course and down on the page somewhere there is an expression of interest. If you sign up to that they will send you the information by email, thats how i did it, but i still checked online also so i didnt miss out, but they are on the ball and will let you know asap and once you get all the notifications be sure to get all your documentation in order. If you like i can send you offline the email with all the stuff they sent to me. PM me your personal email address and hopefully this gives you the heads up. The staff at GCIT are great! especially Melinda Fertsz, nothing is too much trouble for her and she goes out of her way to help you, they are all great. 

Regards

Sandra

Hay Guys,

                Its great that your are all studying, I started my diploma in November 2010, I have just changed to online full time to get my last semster out of the way, I too am a mature age student, I work full time in the Defence and have two children, it has been a long haul but I am almost at the end and I tell you it has been worth it.