HJ - I was exactly the same , found it so overwhelming to know what was the best option for me and wasn't sure how it would help me. I'd recommend that whatever you do you start asap, just so that you can do it well and have completed whatever you choose to do (if it be study) before you apply for 2010 so that they can have your marks to support your application. Depending on what my marks are for my science and computing units I may sit the STAT test again. THe good thing is that it doesn't matter how many stat tests you do ( 2per year is all they offer though) they will always take your highest score. I can then use my stat test score to combine with the grades I get for my adult tertiary prep course to get my entrance score for the course.
I think the hardest thing is not knowing what kind of cutoff they will have at Griffith with it being a new course! Ahhh the joys! Good luck , looking forward to hearing what you decide. Please feel free to ask any q's! (not that I necessarily know what i'm talking about! )
Hi hj, I have not heard any more. I did send Jenny Gamble an email a while back but did not get a reply. I wanted to find out whether the BMid would still be available part time seeing as the website said it was going to be available in fulltime mode only.
I am quite nervous about actually getting in, because it seems there are heaps of people wanting to do this course and being a new course I think it will be really tough. So I am thinking of putting ACU as my second preference just in case.
But then I was skimming through the maternity services review last night and it basically says that they still see registered nurse/midwives as optimum over those who have done an undergraduate BMid degree as they feel that those with both qualifications are more adaptable and will be better equipped to care for families. Oh, I don't know
Spice - im sooo in the same position as you! im thinking maybe i might do nursing first than do BMid - cause i think also that u might just make a better Middy if u had nursing behind u aswell - my only prob is that i really dont have much of an interest in doing Nursing! Plus cause i dont have high enough rank to get into anywhere but ACU and thats a long drive - Nursing is a bit easier to get into!
So i was chatting with DH last night and im thinking of doing this
1st Preference - Nursing at Griffith Nathan
2nd Preference - BMid at ACU
3rd Preference - Nursing at Griffith Logan
I also dont think to get into Nursing that i need to do any study to help get in!
But than..... i was chatting to someone today and they suggested why dont i do Diploma in Nursing (my highest Qual at the mo is CERT IV) at TAFE and than try to get into Midwifery - so im thinking that might be the way to go - just have to ring UQ and see if that will help me get my ranking up high enough to get in - than i only have to do Nursing full time for 18mths than do Middy - instead of 3yrs Nursing than Middy?!
Does that make any sense to you?
I emailed Jenny a few weeks back and havent heard back from her either!
It's a hard decision to make isn't it!
If you do a bachelor of nursing at Uni first (as opposed to the diploma of Nursing at Tafe) then you only have to do a Masters in Midwifery which at Griffith is one year fulltime. You spend one day per week on campus and you also work in a paid placement at a hospital as a student midwife.
If you decided to do a diploma of nursing at Tafe that would be 18 months and then because you'd be an endorsed enrolled nurse and not a registered nurse, you'd have to then to the bachelor of midwifery (3 years) as opposed to being able to do the masters of mid (1 year)
HOpe this makes sense.
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