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Nurse4God

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Mon Apr 25, 2011 1:04 pm

Hi

Has anyone gone through or is going through Charles Sturt uni or CQU and knows how to get around doing the residential schools?
Even better would be lumping all res schools and doing them all at one time.
The reason I ask is because, as I live in WA, having to fly over to QLD or NSW for every res school could become impracticle time and expensive financially.
Any help would be great!

Thanks

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Apr 25, 2011, 09:54 pm

If you do the subjects in the right order, get preferences in early, and only choose one campus (not one at Rocky, one at Noosa etc), CQU put all the required res schools into a one week stretch. I had a 1 day and 2 x 2 day res schools (3 res schools for first 4 subjects). Dates are set heaps of time in advance - see http://handbook.cqu.edu.au/Handbook/schools.jsp

They were really good (I dropped out for personal reasons) but my pet peeve was trawling through the forums for important information when you have approx 400 students asking the same questions over again. If they just read the forums first and the CQU Nursing Survival Handbook (sorry, have to log in to read it!) so many of their questions would have been answered already. Information overload is bad enough from everything you have to pack into your brain in first year without adding to the load.

Heads up if you didn't know and aren't one, CSU only do distance for ENs.

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Apr 26, 2011, 10:04 am

Hi rivnurse

Did you mean that CSU only does a transition course externally and you have to be an EN to get in?
Thanks for telling me, I'm not one and I didn't know.
What you said about the res schools is great.
Does that mean that you got it down to one combined res school per year or was it per semester?

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Apr 26, 2011, 12:06 pm Last edited Apr 26, 2011, 12:06 pm update #1

Unfortunately residential schools are an unavoidable part of doing nursing externally. They teach you the important practical parts of your course and assess you on certain things. Generally, from my experience they will not allow you to go on in the course or go on placements until they are done.

CDU only have 3 or 1 per the core placement units. CSU has quite a few, but they range in length from 2 days to 5 days.

You can also apply to transfer to CSU based on advance standing from your current uni.

Another thing - check with the unis but some interstate uni's will only allow you to complete your placements in the same state of the uni.

modified: Tuesday 26 April 2011 12:13:16 pm - AngelaM

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Apr 28, 2011, 10:59 am

Re: Did you mean that CSU only does a transition course externally and you have to be an EN to get in?

Anyone can do on campus from the start, but they don't do first year nursing off-campus (technically 3 of their first year subjects are still available externally as they are part of non-nursing fully external courses). So either you do first year externally somewhere else first (as mentioned my prev poster) then cross fingers and apply or else do your EN first. UNE is the same (great uni for distance support, by the way) in that they don't do first year off-campus. Since the uni's don't do a common first year, doing it one place in the only hope of transferring to CSU is quite risky (e.g. UniSA don't have any placements in first year by the looks of it so that wouldn't match up with what CSU considers a 'first year').

Yes, I wish CSU would advertise the fact better and not mislead people.

CQU res schools are one week per semester, so two weeks per year.... but CQU also has a third 'semester' (they call them terms) to fast track (or re-do failed subjects) but not a huge range of subjects/units (they call them courses) are offered in the summer term.

Hope that helps and doesn't cause more confusion.

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