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tinalitza
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Tue Dec 18, 2007 4:12 pm
On Friday, just before heading off to work I got a suprise letter in the mail... it was an early offer to enrol in the Uni SA Ba Nursing degree! I'm so pleased with myself right now :) Good luck to everyone else who has applied to study for next year! RN here I come :D
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anga23
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Dec 18, 2007, 08:10 pm
Congratulations !! That's fantastic news. I still have to wait a month to find out about my placement here in Brisbane. Good luck with your course next year !!
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SilverLining
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Dec 19, 2007, 11:07 am
Congratulations! Well done! How wonderful to get some good news before Christmas. Will you be studying on-campus? Full time/Part time? Do you start at the end of Feb? Hurrah, it seems there will be few nursing students about on these forums next year, hope we can all support each other! (Mind you, I'll just be studying Div 2/Enrolled Nursing) Congrats again. I got to go to the enrolment for my course the other day, and I have a student diary, a student card, and a rather interesting textbook and stationary list! All very exciting. Have a lovely Christmas!
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tinalitza
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Dec 21, 2007, 01:10 am
Thanks guys :) Well, I'll be studying externally and fulltime. I'm planning to continue with working about 25 - 30 hours a week for gribbles at a private hospital taking bloods, doing ecg's etc on the ward. Well, those hours while I can. During Exam time etc I'll be cutting down the hours but it should all be fine. I cant wait until I get my welcome pack and to get the ball rolling come feb (late feb i think) yay!
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shanti
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Dec 26, 2007, 11:53 pm
Congrats! Thats great! Main rounds in Sydney close nxt week so I'm a little nervous... I'm still in a very confused state at the moment. I dont know if this is the profession for me [just finished yr 12] , which uni I want to attend [Uni of tech syd or Uni syd] or which course [BN or a combined degree]. I feel sick to the stomach thinking about it and theres noone I can talk to about it who will really understand :S
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Darren
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Dec 27, 2007, 05:05 pm
Hi Shanti, welcome to NC. Give us a try, you might find there a number of people here who have or are going through similar situations. Making a career choice is a huge thing and shouldn't be taken lightly, so don't think you are on your own when it comes to struggling with the right decision. A double degree does give you options and you might find part way through that one or the other just doesnt suit you, and you can drop one of the degrees and continue on with the one that does suit.
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Ronnie
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Dec 27, 2007, 08:19 pm
Yep I agree no real need to stress out too much, it takes up too much valuable energy. Anything we are unfamiliar with tends to cause concern but look at the big picture. Plenty of people have successfully completed tertiary study and at the end of the day all it takes is determination. Also, we all evolve through life and where we are at now may very well change in the future. If you had of told me when I was a 15yo plumbing apprentice that at the age of 35 I would be knocking on the door of becomming an RN I would have laughed. Not because of the job, but because it was a world away from where I was at that time. I have always said the best plan is to not have a plan and just go with the flow. Life has a way of working itself out.
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Mumto3
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Dec 28, 2007, 11:55 pm
Congratulations on your offer, Thats so good you found out early. I just joined after reading this post because I'm waiting for what seems forever to find out if I get offered a place. So I know how relaxed you must feel now and wanted to say good on you. Early this year I finished a Human Health unit with a HD (96%) and then sat the STAT test here in Qld and now I'm hoping and praying that I get a placement. Find out on January 10th. I come from a family of nurses and said my whole life that I never wanted to do nursing, but wasn't sure what it was I wanted to do career wise. I ran my own business for over 10yrs and now at 40 I realised it was nursing I wanted to do all along.... Must have been all those horror stories I overheard at the dinner table and during family get togethers that put me off for so long LOL.
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shanti
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Dec 30, 2007, 03:03 pm
Thank you for the support. I was feeling like I was the only person with thi dilemma b/c all my friends have their eyes set on their goal and have the perfect path for it yet I'm just stuck in the mud. I think about it 24/7 and it makes my enthusiasm for nursing drop. I'm going to take it as it comes and with info day coming up from both uni's, hopefully that will make my decision easier. Again, many thanks :)
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Rotator Cuff
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Jan 02, 2008, 10:48 pm
Hi Shanti, Rotator Cuff(RC) i pop in every now and then when I not studying. Don't fret about yr friends having set their goals we are all different. find out what unis have to offer and go from there, may make your decision easier. You have your whole life ahead of you yet. I did office work from when i finished high school (year 10 in those days) up until i got pregnant with number one child. Many years after having no. 3 child i decided on a whole different career, you guessed it NURSING. Totally unrelated to office work. So did my cer 111 in aged care, became and still an AIN for three years now. Um UM UM will I do my EEN. So now at 44 years of age (god dam it) doing my EEN. You know why? because deep down that was what I have wanted to do. Just realised today that I have to get back to doing my study cause xmas and new year interrupted my routine. STUDY STUDY STUDY. ASSIGNMENTS ASSIGNMENTS Yep got two assignments to do during my holidays Just great (NOT) Thats life bye
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