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I have been wanting to study nursing for a few years now but it has always been the wrong time because of family matters. My daughter is now 16 months old and I am feeling like maybe my time has come and I can finally enroll without feeling like I am depriving my baby too much. I'm currently a stay at home mum and can afford to put her in day care one or two days a week.

BUT now I can't decide what is better, I was set on doing the EEN course online through my local TAFE so I can study at home and save on day care fees (I have previously studied behavioural science from home but didn't finish the course for personal reasons but I know I have the will to be able to study at home) but then I go on forums and read that it is better to skip the EEN course and go straight to RN.

There is a QUT located at the same campus around the corner from my house and Univertity of the Sunshine Coast 45 minutes away but they are full time courses, aren't offered online and are twice the duration, there is also CQU which is a distance course but I keep hearing people don't like their reputation, trouble organising placements and it is a long drive from home for prac. I'm so lost. Do I do my original plan of study the EEN course and follow it up later on with a BN or go straight to a BN?!

In the short run I am happy to work anywhere but in the long run I want to work in surgery, maternity or in a specialist ward.

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enoto (offline) Joined: Dec 2014 Location: Posts: 4	Thu Dec 04, 2014 4:12 pm I have been wanting to study nursing for a few years now but it has always been the wrong time because of family matters. My daughter is now 16 months old and I am feeling like maybe my time has come and I can finally enroll without feeling like I am depriving my baby too much. I'm currently a stay at home mum and can afford to put her in day care one or two days a week. BUT now I can't decide what is better, I was set on doing the EEN course online through my local TAFE so I can study at home and save on day care fees (I have previously studied behavioural science from home but didn't finish the course for personal reasons but I know I have the will to be able to study at home) but then I go on forums and read that it is better to skip the EEN course and go straight to RN. There is a QUT located at the same campus around the corner from my house and Univertity of the Sunshine Coast 45 minutes away but they are full time courses, aren't offered online and are twice the duration, there is also CQU which is a distance course but I keep hearing people don't like their reputation, trouble organising placements and it is a long drive from home for prac. I'm so lost. Do I do my original plan of study the EEN course and follow it up later on with a BN or go straight to a BN?! In the short run I am happy to work anywhere but in the long run I want to work in surgery, maternity or in a specialist ward.

roocooper (offline) Joined: Jan 2015 Location: Posts: 4	Jan 26, 2015, 08:10 am It's such a hard decision... I'm trying to make that decision too. Read my other comments under "Student Nursing" concerning EEN or RN study... you may find some of the other people's comments useful. Also check out http://joboutlook.gov.au/alpha.aspx#N (click onto Nurses (Registered) and Nurses (enrolled). Depending on what state you live in, there is generally more scope to move into the fields you are interested in. As I said in another post, doing the EEN gives you about a year off the BN degree. So either choice you make, perhaps make the choice based on your current circumstances, because if you do the EEN first you can do two more years (Full time) of the RN Degree and be a qualified RN. The EEN course is a pathway to the RN degree. Good luck. :)

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HELP! EN or RN, distance or full time?