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BEX

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Tue Mar 06, 2012 4:03 pm

Hi everyone,

I'm about to do a last minute enrollment for the Diploma of Nursing online. I'm just trying to decide if I should go for full or part time.

I tried fulltime about 18 months ago (and had to quit because I fell pregnant and my due date fell right in the middle of a residential school!) and found the FT workload to be fairly good. However, the lady I just spoke to about the course has said FT requires about 35hours a week study.

Just wondering if those who have/are studying Diploma of Nursing at home, think that's about right - 35 hours a week? Or is it less, or more? I don't want to bite off more than I can chew and I definitely cannot squeeze in 35 hours.
Thanks for sharing!

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Mar 06, 2012, 06:59 pm

Right now it feels like thousands! Getting ready for 1st residential school so lots to revise, assignments to complete etc. but I do think it is more than 35 hours. They told me around 35 hours but I do a lot more than that but others manage to fit in full time work around it so there are some that obviously can do it in less hours.

Good luck!

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Mar 07, 2012, 02:38 am

Congrats BEX!

Hours put in depends on how well you study and retain information. One person may need to go over everything quite a few times, where as someone else may only need to go over it once. So their hours will differ. Another may be one of those 'study smart, not hard' people that know exactly what they need to know to pass, and give the rest of the information a casual glance in searching for the info they do need to know (hint: to do that, look at the leanring objectives for eacy module. That's all you need to get out of it. But it does leave your knowledge lacking once you graduate). If you have more basic experience gotten in a job such as AIN, there will be parts you can skip over, reducing your study load.

There is a TAFE near me that offers Nursing over 18 months, and it is very busy. I know you are online, but to give you an idea of time needed to study, they have students on campus 5 days a week from 8 until 4:30. Subjects one straight after the other.

BEX

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Mar 07, 2012, 10:34 am

Thankyou for the replies.

I think I will go with part time - it's going to be better wishing I had more work to do than struggling to keep up because there's too much! And with 6 kids, which equates to over 12 years of broken sleep my memory and retention are cactus, so the lighter load is probably best for me!
Thanks again!

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