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The Cat In The Hat:

--- Quote from: lm21074 on June 29, 2020, 08:30:49 pm ---Hey :)

I think this is the right place! All nursing degrees running in Victoria at the moment are accredited by the Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia which means that they all teach pretty much the same thing, just with different teachers delivering the content. So, it doesn't really matter too much what uni you go to. (see here for more info about accreditation. Each uni's webpage of their nursing degree should say it is accredited too). I'd go with the Nursing program that a) is close to home and/or b) a uni / campus that you would like to be at.

It might not be helpful to base your decision entirely on the opinions of others. That being said, past and current nursing students can be an invaluable source of advice as to how a uni runs a course. I know nursing students from ACU, Deakin, RMIT, La Trobe and Monash and all of them love their course.

However, as I said above, some people might think a certain uni's Bachelor of Nursing is great, but someone else might think otherwise. For example, I know someone who started off doing Nursing at La Trobe and transferred to RMIT Nursing. I know another person who is at La Trobe for Nursing and plans to stay there until she graduates.



If you find that you don't end up making the right uni (or even degree choice), you can always transfer to another uni / course.

Hope this helps :)

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Thanks, it does. But do they have different structures at all to the course, e.g. actual placement starting at different points of the course?
Also, what's the course study in the first year?

sweetcheeks:
I had three exams in three days. Two were three hours and the other 1.5 hours. I ran out of time on two of the exams.

It's a very interesting (and rather unpleasant) experience doing exams at home. The reason I say its unpleasant is that I found there to be lots of distractions and I was getting frustrated at every little bit of noise (traffic, neighbours, sirens). Luckily, I live alone, as some of my friends have said that they couldn't cope with the noise from other people in the house.

All three exams were different formats. The first exam had two sections, one where you downloaded a PDF, wrote answers to the questions and photographed them and submitted; the other section was an online quiz. I struggled a bit with time management (since it was the first exam) and ended up spending too much time on the online quiz and not leaving enough for the written section.

The second exam was simply writing answers and drawing diagrams. Really no different to a normal exam, which I really liked. This was by far the best exam format, also it was my favourite subject. Time allocation was very generous, since it was designed for 90 minutes but we were given 3 hours.

The third was a PDF that you filled in boxes. I really didn't like this one, as we had to also upload photos of diagrams we drew and insert them (I don't have decent drawing software). I also found that the PDF would occasionally crash after inserting the photos. For me this was the worst exam, as I found that I accidentally filled in some of the boxes wrong and one of the questions really required printing out of the paper, which I couldn't do (three pages of spectra to interpret).

I've already received the marks for two of the subjects. They were quite generous with the marking (I got >90, even though I didn't finished one of them).

The academics put a fantastic amount of effort into the exam questions and the structures of the exams were well thought out (some formats were better than others). I just preferred the simple writing answers and photographing them, as it made it the simplest and most straightforward. If I were to do more exams at home, I would definitely get a printer.

K888:

--- Quote from: The Cat In The Hat on June 29, 2020, 09:11:10 pm ---Thanks, it does. But do they have different structures at all to the course, e.g. actual placement starting at different points of the course?
Also, what's the course study in the first year?

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All courses differ slightly but they're more similar than they are different. Most have the first placement in first year (tends to be a quick aged care placement). Most placements happen in 2nd and 3rd year.

Anecdotally I have friends who have done nursing at Monash, ACU, RMIT and Deakin and all have enjoyed the course. I think Monash might have a few less placement hours than the rest but not 100% certain on that.

If you're wanting to talk to a nursing student, maybe try posting on the relevant uni's stalkerspace? I also know that Monash MNHS has student ambassadors that talk about their courses on instagram and other social media platforms so might be worth checking that out.

The Cat In The Hat:

--- Quote from: K888 on June 29, 2020, 09:31:10 pm ---All courses differ slightly but they're more similar than they are different. Most have the first placement in first year (tends to be a quick aged care placement). Most placements happen in 2nd and 3rd year.

Anecdotally I have friends who have done nursing at Monash, ACU, RMIT and Deakin and all have enjoyed the course. I think Monash might have a few less placement hours than the rest but not 100% certain on that.

If you're wanting to talk to a nursing student, maybe try posting on the relevant uni's stalkerspace? I also know that Monash MNHS has student ambassadors that talk about their courses on instagram and other social media platforms so might be worth checking that out.

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Thanks!

lacitam:

--- Quote from: The Cat In The Hat on June 29, 2020, 05:03:11 pm ---Don't know if this is the right place to go for this, but here goes.
Nursing, not double degree, at a Uni in Victoria. Which is the best? What's it like in general? Please, I tried looking up individual unis and it left me in the dark. Thank you for your assistance.

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I did nursing at Deakin for 1 semester before transferring to a different course. It was alright, by no means did I enjoy it a lot but I was not a fan of the theory subjects at all (at least the ones taught in semester 1). The coordination of the units, in my opinion, were handled quite poorly. The 1 week clinical placement was pretty good though, however that's as much insight as I can offer to you.

PM me and I can help you navigate the Deakin website for more information on the subjects you do in nursing.

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