ONLINE DIPLOMA OF NURSING COURSE ???

Hey :-)

I have just enrolled in this course, and its the best one in terms of training and they have a great partnership with ramsay health care. I thought the fees were steep too, but I opted to pay with VET-FEE-HELP. Well worth it in the end :-)

Have you looked at fee help as an option?

Hi Chrissydee,

I am doing the Diploma of Nursing through TAFE SA. They have subsidised fees, so in all I think the course costs around the $6000 mark (correct me if im wrong anyone!)

You can pay via payment plans, but also lissam's idea is good too....as far as I know, VET is like HECS, but through TAFE. Google it and you will find some information regarding this.

I was lucky enough to score a work place program through my work (i am a carer in aged care). The government had grants for each aged care facility in SA (possibly around Australia, I dont know) for one staff member to be granted free education to do there Diploma and I was lucky enough to be picked!!!

Hope that you find out the info that you need....

Regards,

jessanat

TAFE SA do do an onmline course, Port Adelaide TAFE do it, and so does Whyalla TAFE....im pretty sure that with Whyalla you have to go there x3 times for week long workshops.
Give them a call and speak to them, prolly the best thing to do!

jessanat

Hello,
I was recently in the same boat as you. I am a single mum looking to get into nursing and trying to study on the cheap. I was all ready to do gold coast tafe via online delivery and pay for it later via the vet fee help but i had some family problems at the time and missed the enrolment date. Im glad i did because I am now looking at studying at CQU. The course at Gold coast only gives you the EEN qualification and after the vet fee help gets the 20% added to it you end up paying just under $18000 for the course (minded that you dont have to pay that back untill you earn over $42,000), the upfront costs are only for textbooks and uniforms which I think added up to just over a thousand dollars as well, which is good. Now while it is probably a decent course and I have heard nothing but good things, for that price you should really consider doing the RN course at a university. For example I am going to do the bachelor of nursing via distance education with CQU (which will make me RN upon completion) which will take 3 years to complete, the student contribution fees for each year are $5442 (via fee help) which works out to $16326 slightly less than the EEn course . Granted it will be harder and take a little longer but in the end i'll earn more and have more qualifications than I would with the other course. I have been investigating getting into nursing for some time now and am only beginning to understand the complexities of studying to be a nurse, there's so much waffle its hard to know where to start! good luck with it. I have found if your in doubt call around and ask other nurses most are more than willing to help you figure out which way you want to go.
Oh and by the way I am getting direct entry into the university via a free bridging program which not only prepares you for study but saves going through QTAC if you don't have OP ranks etc.

Cheers Laura

Lauraundergrad, I am really hoping I can get into this course! (op sry to highjack your post). I have just applied to do the bridging program and I have a really good feeling about CQU and am praying hard that i get in! What did you think of the bridging program? I forgot what its called now. I am shocking at maths/science and havent studied in over 10 years so im very worried!!!

Thanks laura that eases my mind abit. What are the forums and facebook pages called?

Thanks Laura Ill definatly look for that. I just got the go ahead to start the bridging program through CDU. Ive also applied for steps through CQU so im going to wait to hear back from them, hopefully it wont take long. From what ive read on here CQU would be better.