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sarahjane
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Mon Jun 20, 2011 4:06 pm
Hello everyone, I am desperately trying to figure out my best options for gaining entry into the degree. I have no previous education background, and am a mature age student, and don't know whether to complete the Diploma in Nursing (Div 2), or fast track and complete some units through Open University relevant to nursing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I want to get my nursing career up and running ASAP!!
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Kate15
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Jun 20, 2011, 11:40 pm
I guess it just depends what you want.
If you wish to finish the course quicker, than do the enrolled nurse (Div 2) course. However, if you then wish to do other aspects of nursing, such as giving medications, you will need to do a medication competency course. In other words there will be other competencies that you will have to study for if you wish to do them.
To become a registered nurse (DIv 1) you will need to do the bachelor degree which is 3 years full time study. Once completed you can pretty much do most if not all clinical skills. From there, you can go on and complete any postgrad qualifications in your chosen nursing area.
I'm studying my final year of nursing at uni, and there are mature age students doing the course as well as enrolled nurses who wish to become to registered nurses.
I can't really help you with the Open University question as I don't know much about that.
Hope this helps a little. Go onto the uni and tafe websites and read about what their nursing courses offer, may help you a bit.
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Jun 21, 2011, 06:48 am
Hi- I also didn't have a health education background and i enrolled in a Aged care certificate as i wasnted to first know if i definantly wanted to work in health care and then while i was doing it i applied for the Bachelor of Nursing at Uni SA (external) and i got entry- i think a lot if it comes down to showing how committed you are and why you want to do it as to getitng entry. Im now 2nd year and am completing the Bachelor of Nursing full tiem whilst working part time as a PCA in dissability and aged. I'm applying for on campus bachelor of Nursing in melbourne for next year which will add on an extra year to my course purely because im unhappy with the Uni SA course. and from everything i've heard speaking to universities Deakin, la trobe and RMIT all look very good for pre registartion entry in to a Bachelor. Hope some of that helped! :)
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sarahjane
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Jun 21, 2011, 01:14 pm
Thanks to both of you for your help. I am aiming for entry into the Bachelor course, but I really am struggling to figure out the best way to go about it. If I do the Diploma course, it will take me a year and a half before I finish, whereas if I do the Open University units, I can do them in a few months. That means I could apply to uni for March 2012 instead of another couple of years. I basically am trying to work out though which would look better, and give me a better chance of being accepted into the bachelor degree on my application, the Diploma or the couple of Nursing units from Open University. Thanks again!
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ghard
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Jun 22, 2011, 07:21 am
If you sit a stat test, fill out a personal competency statement and have some work experience as well you can gain entry this way also if you meet the Uni of your choices requirements. You've most likely missed the mid year intake for this year but you would have plenty of time to make next years intake. If you do the Diploma first you get time taken of the Bachelor course. So if you can start the Diploma now you may finish at the same time anyway as you have a over 6mths before the next intake. Quite a few of the tafe and universities have courses that are linked up here in Qld. Good luck with whatever way you decide to go.
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Jun 23, 2011, 09:52 pm
Hi Sarahjane, I was in the same situation as you so I investigated bridging courses run by Uni's. These are free and generally take one semester. Upon successful completion, you then get direct entry into the degree through that uni. If you are looking at doing nursing by distance, you can have a look at CQU- they have a WIST course. If you live in toowoomba or sunshine coast, in QLD, you can look at USQ's TPP course. I've just completed USQ's TPP course, it's a lot of fun, quite easy and even though I won't be taking USQ on their offer of direct entry into nursing, it gives me qualifications to apply to the uni's I want to go to. TPP is also offered by distance, as WIST is. Good luck. I've just finished exams, have passed, so today went and looked at the uni I want to go to. I'm in love with the campus. Dates back to 1876 (or 1878) and started of as a lunatic asylum, renamed to a hospital of the insane, then renamed to mental hospital and then renamed again before becoming a university in 1999. It was catering to these pt's for over 100 years and the buildings are beautiful and old.
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Jun 23, 2011, 09:55 pm
Can I also add, midyear intake is over, so you won't be able to apply to nursing until it's open for next year's intake. If you look into bridging courses now and enrol ASAP, you can be enrolled for the upcoming semester, have gotten used to study again before you start nursing and have the qualifications to either apply for next year or start by direct entry for next year. Just call the uni you want to attend, and see what they offer in the way of bridging courses.
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Jul 03, 2011, 02:41 pm
Hiya Sarah Jane, I have been given the run around for months with doing nursing, the fastest way is stat test to try to get a good entry score , you need to call the uni to find out exactly how much you need. The other way is like has been said do a cert III or better IV and get into tafe full time that way. Most unis I contacted wouldn't recognise anything lower than a diploma...certs don't make the grade.I have dont the aged care thing now tafe I have a huge medical/dental background so thats prob a bonus too, I am 42. Good luck.
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