I am looking at Latrobe and RMIT. Latrobe has less days at uni as mainly online. Its about $14K need to look further into as the costs are all done differntly now as HECS is different and seems very confusing. There is also the possibility of government supported place or coucnil scholorships to assist in costs.

Where I work there is about 4000 births a year, there is only a few mothercraft nurses who have worked for many years there and rest are all mw. A lot of the mid students work as ENs and will be accepted to work on ward as they r studying. They try and avoid agency en's as often we have had some who dont know anything about mums and babies and it makes workload even heavier. If there is no other agency staff available they will use for extra hands but often doesnt help much as they can only do the basic obs and not the mid part of obs etc.