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Michelle123
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Sun Feb 19, 2006 11:02 pm
Hi Everyone, I am just starting my Bachelor of Nursing, and I was lucky enough to find this forum that deals with Australian nurses and students! Anyway, I am feeling overwhelmed by the amount of reading that I have to do and would love some tips on how to actually get it all to sink in. It has been a while since I have studied, and I'm not sure where to start when it comes to making notes from my text or various journal articles. Any study tips you could give me would be greatly apreciated! Also any advice for getting an AIN positon without experience would be good too :) TIA Michelle
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priscillasmum
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Feb 26, 2006, 09:53 am
Michelle, my daughter also starts her degree this year. She did a level 2 First Aid course during the holidays, and then sent out her resume, cold, to about 5 different nursing homes in the area. She got a call, and a job and is very happy. She hadn't even started her course, the DON at the nursing home knew, but was happy to take her. The staff have been fantastic and she has learnt a lot. Enthusiasm and persistance always pays dividends. Joanne
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nursemorgan
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Mar 06, 2006, 01:31 pm
Hi Michelle In regards to the reading our lecturers recomend that rather than reading simply for the sake of it read to answer your particular questions/ learning objectives. also remember your a student the only "stupid" questions are the ones you don't ask!! cheers Morgan
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emmy
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Mar 11, 2006, 12:21 pm
Hi Michelle
I'm pretty sure you have to be a third year undergrad before the hospitals will accept you as an AIN. However a nursing home would be a good place to start. You will get lots of experience in manual handling and time management.
Good Luck with your degree, you will find that time just flies by!
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irjking
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Mar 30, 2006, 03:12 pm
Hi Michelle, good luck with your course. I am a mature student and I'm now in my 3rd year and have tried many approaches to studies and note taking. I think you have to try different methods and find which one suits you. At the start of my course I tried going to every lecture, writing everything they said down and reading up the appropriate section in the texts - this worked OK but only for subjects I was REALLY interested in. The less interesting modules were usually the ones where the lecture did not have enough information in it or was poorly presented that I felt it was a bit of a waste of time for me going. In the end i skipped these lectures and just studied the texts or web resources, at home or in the library, that were useful. It also helped to imagine the type of exam questions I would be asked to work out the level of detail needed to study. Bioscience was the biggest effort for me and required a thorough reading of the texts, based on the lecture content, making my own notes so I could understand it and going to the tutorials to pick up tips and hints of how to answer the long and short answer questions. I don't think you can study for multiple choice, you either will know the answer or not when it gets asked. When it got around to studying for exams it was a matter of being organised, setting a schedule, limiting the study time to 1 hour periods - otherwise nothing would remain in my head as I would get too tired - then it was just a matter of reviewing my notes and making amendments to reduce everything to key words that triggered an answer. I also found it useful to look at the case studies on every CD that came with a text book and ploughing through it to get used to answering questions a specific way. I also had to make sure I had a quiet area in the house away from the TV / DVD as I am easily distracted. Ian
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irjking
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Mar 31, 2006, 05:33 pm
Forgot to add this link to an intersting web page on learning styles http://www.accelerated-learning-online.com/styles/default.asp have a look, it may be useful. Ian
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angc
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Jun 25, 2006, 06:18 pm
hi to all!
i need some help!! i am very very interested in wanting to study nursing next year, one day down the track be involved in midwifery, i realize this is going to be a long journey, but i am prepared to give it all i have got!!
I currently work 3 days a week in retail & would be going in as an undergraduate student, i also have two beautiful children , a loving partner & a morgtage!!!
could i get some feedback on some of you who have the same as me & how you coped or are coping!!! as this is my dream career & would be so satisfied to fullfil it! please help!!
also if u are studying full time or part time??
thanks angela
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nicenurse
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Jul 22, 2006, 09:20 pm
hey AngC, go for it girl, if you 'are interested and will give it all you've got' then you area already ahead. Even full time uni is only about 19 or so hours at uni per week, so you should be able to fit it in, although with young kids and mortgage, you may think about doing the EN course first, that is quite part time and will give you loads of skills, then when you do get into the bachelor of nursing, all studies are tax deductible as well,which will give you an extra incentive to go on. Just a thought - anway it is a field that is always exciting and tons of job opportunities.
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