Health Train

Good luck to everyone doing their interviews this week. I had mine yesterday - now it's just the waiting game........

What I considered the roll of a nurse to be. How I'd handle a situation. Questions along those lines. Basic common sense stuff really, not scary at all.

Hey Katie80,

The exam at healthtrain is nothing like the one for vetassess. Healthtrain is basic common sense maths, no graphs no problem solving, no medication calcs. Just study addition,subtraction,multiplication,division,fractions and percentages! It's really straight forward.Also make sure you can spell because that is huge!!!!

There is a great maths tuturial on the Charles Sturt Uni Site, if you practice these you'll do great as they are the kind of questions that are on the exam. I hope this helps.

Megan

Hey alli,

Yeah I know I haven't been on here for ages, I've been too busy doing school work!!!

I'm really loving the course though it is still early days! Everyone is lovely and I am enjoying all the subjects except for one; Nursing Profession. I think that's more to do with the teacher though! So far so good I'm cruising and not really getting stuck on anything. We had assessments for bed making and sponge baths etc last week that was cool ! I'm finding everyone really supportive and caring and we all have a good laugh!

How are you doing? What are you up to in your course? How are you finding the work load at this stage? I'm sure someone said there were students from Kingston having classes at Edithvale due to renovations is that you guys?

We don't have a placement until the end of Nov, when is your next one?

Hey alli, I have a silly question for you,

Yesterday we started learning how to take blood pressure , for the life of me I can't hear the brachial pulse with my stethescope all I hear is crackling!! Have you got any tips? How did you go for your first time? It's hard to know if it's me or the stethescope or if it's something I'll just become used to? I know we will have tons of practice but I thought I'd get it straight away!

Anyway I hope everything is going great and I'll keep posting when I get a chance!

All the best Megan

Oh and who have you got for nursing profession????
I'm just curious cause the teacher we had for that no longer works for health train.
Basic nursing care was an awesome subject. I really enjoyed that, learning to sponge and make the beds etc. Have u had many essays/assignments yet?? How r u going with anatomy???

Hey megan, i'm actually not at school today because our class is doing first aid and i already have my certificate :)
I havent really had any of your teachers, i've had penny for anatomy (we used to get cd's off maureen though that would help with a&p) , Maureen for wound care, Chris for aged care and chronic health. I've got jeanette (maureens sister) for mental health. Without sounding sucky i actually like all my teachers lol. They all teach differently but for someone like me who hasnt studied in 7 years, i find them all easy to follow and approachable.
As far as the nursing theorist i wrote mine on 'florence nightingale' , purely because she was the easiest to understand. Have you picked who you are going to do?? If you choose her i can certainly give you the name of the books i used.

We have had a fairly high drop out rate.. alot of people left in the first semester and then we lost a few more after aged care. We are down to about 24 people from 36 i think. I think alot of them just couldnt cope with trying to work and study at the same time.
I did my aged care placement at monash gardens and really enjoyed that. We got to do sponging, showering, feeding, bed making and "resident of the day" (which means u get to check their blood pressure, resp, etc) Oh and blood glucose levels :) Have you learnt blood glucose levels in basic client assessment yet?? And as far as the uniform for your placements... i would recomend a white polo shirt not a proper shirt..... Because when your showering, the steam from the water and the heat from the lights is incredible.lol just a little bit of practical advice..

I will let you know now though that even if you don't enjoy aged care stick with it... all your other placements will be alot different. I'm the last group to go out on rehab placement and all the other girls who currently work as pca's couldn't believe how much different rehab was to aged care.
If i can be of any help with anything let me know, i know when i first started i was a stress head lol.. still am... but i'm getting better knowing i'm at the half way mark of my course now.

Hey, yeah i use monash to borrow books cause they have a good selection. Health train have cards u can borrow to go and borrow books from the library. But i found it to be a pain in the butt.. so i just ended up paying and getting my own monash card. That way i can go on weekends and not have to worry about getting the card from the health train office.

Thanks so much Megan08.

I go for the info night on the 6th October (anyone else going?) so their test has nothing to do with Vetassess? I did the vetassess one and found it very clinical and strict. I ran out of time on the maths part so hence not the best score in the world and i am hoping to do better through Health Train.

Thanks for the tips i will start studying. Did you find it easier than the vetassess exam? Do they give you a little more time?

They do sound really good i hope i do o.k?

Hey Katie80,

The healthtrain test is not as stressful as the vetassess. I too ran out of time to finish the maths on the vetassess but at healthtrain you get heaps of time. Seriously I had enough time to triple check all my answers which was great because initially I did make a couple of silly mistakes which I was then able to fix up. You'll do great!

Sarbear,

I use the library at monash Frankston and healthtrain actually gave us our own library cards so we can go whenever we want. Alli is right the staff are not very friendly! I kind of just try and find things myself! I too haven't used the computers at monash, but I think you can look up journals. Perhaps double check though because I know there are limitations to our membership.

Hey alli,

How are things going with you?

The work load seems to be really picking up and we have our first A&P exam first day back after the holidays!

Am a little worried about remembering everything I need to!!

Are you back at Kingston yet?

Hi everyone.

I am going for my Health Train test on Tuesday night the 6th Oct. I am studying the Charles Stuart Uni stuff so i hope that helps and also that nursing site mentioned here previously. I hope i do well i would really like to do this.

Any other tips or advice for me? Also how much time do you get and if anyone can remember the Health Train test, how many maths questions are there? Hope it's not as many as the Vetassess one.

Wish me luck.