CDU External Bachelor of Nursing 2011

I'm enrolling for FT. I work night shift though an agency so I can organise my shift availability around online learning.

Lulu: I think I might do that actually. That's what I initially thought - give full time a go, and see how I go. I can always drop back if it's too much. I'd rather try first.

Thanks for your input guys.

Where are you both located?

Hi everyone,

I have just started doing some research on nursing degrees, I've decided I need a career change. I'm 29 years old this year however I can't work out how it would be feasible for me to stop working fulltime to study. I did come across the JCU external bachelor of nursing and just wanted to see if you guys knew how many hours online that you need to complete for fulltime and part time. Are all of you going to be continuing to work and study?

Thanks for the info

Rach

Hi
I studied externally with CDU. I also worked full time for some of it. It can be done but it will be all consuming. But only for 12/13 weeks at a time- so during sememster it was only work and uni but then your on holidays again. So it is doable. BUT I would suggest you get organised with your lifestyle. There are no issues with changing your workload as long as you closly look at pre req's and have completed it within 6 yrs. i am so excited right now ...... I start my post grad in 8 days!!!!!

I can NOT advise you enough about checking the pre rec's for future subjects when decising to drop subjects or go part time.

Good luck

quirks - No such thing as "just" the diploma. I was going to do that too, but there's no decent external courses in WA, so just went the full hog. You're still studying a difficult qualification so don't under cut yourself :)

Rachel29 - Hey. I'm the same - definitely can't stop working full time to study - need the money.
I don't know anything about JCU's courses, but as with all university courses externally the hours you put in depend entirely on you.
They usually "recommend" 10 hours per week study for each unit (yeah right!) but to be honest, everybody learns differently. Some people won't need very long at all to just do their weekly readings in textbooks and perhaps start a bit of an upcoming assignment etc so it doesn't all pile up at once.
I've actually decided to join the others in here and go full-time first and see how I go. If I struggle terribly I can always withdraw or just drop down to part-time next semester. There's always options with uni :)

jules - That's great that you're doing it with your sister - you can push each other. I'm really hoping to find other external students in Perth so that we can get together as a study group and help each other out.
Yeah, as I said above, I've decided to just say "Stuff it!" and give full-time a go. Again, as I said above, there's always options :)

glam - Thanks for the info. It's good to know that we can change our workload should we need to. If it comes up I'll be sure to check pre-requisites and make sure I'm doing the units in the right order :)

In other news, I've enrolled in the units!! I'm super excited now. (Not so excited to see the booklist and prices when it comes out hahaha)

Hi KK. I'm with you, I will have my yongest home with me when im not at work.
Has anyone had any problems enrolling?

Jules there is agreed credit for hospital trained ENs & cert IV or diploma ENs. So you don't have to apply for the credit. I got an email a couple days ago to say my credits had been processed and a list of the credited units. As long as you have provided your proof of registration when you applied, it should all be processed automatically.

Ive just enrolled for sem1 units. My daughter just woke up so didnt get chance to finish sem 2.

Its really becoming real now, abit scary the work load we willl have. Im wondering about summer sem. I did abit of reading and seen the SBI (anatomy...) subjects are running. Dont know if that will work with clinical timing though.

Will anyone else be looking into summer semester ?

Hope your all enrolling ok, I didnt seem to have any probs.

k

Goodluck with your application posseh_lon.
I am looking at doing summer semester KK. Although i don't know if any of the ones i need to do will be offered.

Hi KK
I am employed as an EEN at my local hospital and usually work 60 - 80 hours per fortnight. I have applied to do the course F/T but will see how it goes. I have applied for RPL but still havent heard how many credit points I receive. Hopefully because I have completed the Diploma of Enrolled Nursing I can get 80 credit points.

Is there anyone else who is doing this course that is a registered EEN?