It's tough deciding what to do hey? There is a woman on my course who is from Tas. She actually moved to Adelaide to do the Bmid, of course she doesn't have children so it's much easier for her! I have a contact in Tas who has just finished her Grad Dip, and if her reaction to Bmid students is indicative of Tas's view of Bmid students, well..it doesn't sound like a very supportive environment!!
Good luck with your decision.
hey Studyingmumma, thanks for the advice. And happy student midwifing you lucky thing BTW, where are you from? Was it easy for you to find placements locally?
hey Nina, I kinda know how you feel. I've wanted to be a midwife for 12 years and I finally applied to get into the BMid through ACU in Brisbane - AND I GOT IN! i was so excited but then reality started to kick in.
You see, I live a 2 hour train ride away from the Uni, I have a 5 month old bub and when i downloaded the course timetable I found it was very inflexible - I'd be required to go to Uni 5 days a week. And the only thing I had to go for on a friday was a 50minute lecture at 3pm and unfortunately ACU requires you to go to the lectures (they don't publish the notes on the web like most other uni's do).
So I ended up turning the offer down, which was heartbreaking.
I'm actually now looking into applying though UniSA also.
Nina, if you've got the support you need from family etc, then I say GO FOR IT!
And I've got my fingers crossed that you get a spot in one of your local hospitals.
Hello everyone!
I'm new here, I happened on the site looking for info about studying midwifery in Aust.
I want to study nursing and midwifery in SA, but I don't know very much about what the difference is between the universities here - I was wondering if anyone who's studied in the undergrad nursing program or the postgrad midwife in SA could tell me a little about their experiences, and which uni they would recommend? I wont be in the state for the open days, so I don't know how to work out which is the better course for me... The Adelaide uni website says it has the most hands-on course, lots of pracs and clinical work even in first year, which sounds really good, but I know that what they write on their websites and what actually happens can be pretty different! Adelaide doesn't offer post-grad in midwifery though, so I would have to transfer to UniSA or Flinders at some point anyway... Maybe someone here has transferred from one of these uni's to another, and they can tell me their thoughts?
My passions are midwifery and psychology, but the undergrad nursing degree opens both options up to me, gives me the possibility of an income after a short time if I need it, and looks much more flexible, hands on and interesting than the dry, academic psych course, or the rather inflexible (but admittedly tempting) midwife course. I'm a carer for my Mum, so being able to change plans to external study or part time if she gets sick is important to me. I don't know how to choose between the uni's and I really don't just want to guess and once I've got in find out a different one had a much better/more suitable course!!
Any help from anyone would be SO appreciated!! I hope to be studying in 2009, assuming I can get all my ducks in a row...
Thanks so much
Sarah
I did Nursing through UniSA and had few drama's. I studied externally and loved it. Although I do understand the structure has changed since I completed my degree - the duration of placements has changed. When I was studying, it was not that easy to move from external to internal (not sure about the other way) and I don't know if that has improved.
Adelaide Uni has only recently begun to offer the Bachelor of Nursing (pre-registration). I think this is either the first or second year they have offered it. They do have a large clinical component because the way they do it is you spend x number of days at Uni in classes and the rest working in a hospital... at least that was the rumour when they first announced they were offering it. Adelaide Uni has a great reputation for it's medical students so one would hope that nursing students would be of similar calibre... but it is only early days for them and they wouldn't have had any graduates yet to judge by.
The general "rule" between Flinders and UniSA is that Flinders is more clinically minded and UniSA is more academic. Having never studied at Flinders, I can't really comment on that.
If you're interested in doing the double degree for Nursing and Mid, you can do that through UniSA (although it is very difficult to get in). I am not sure if Flinders also offer the double degree.
You are correct that only Flinders and UniSA offer post-grad mid in SA.
You said that Mid doesn't have much felxibility. Keep in mind that if you want to do Mid straight off, you can study it externally through UniSA.
I'm currently doing Nursing through UniSA. With the nursing degree, you only do 3 placements: one 4 week in 2nd year, and two 8 week placements in 3rd year. So you dont do any placements in 1st year at all. To me, the thought of an 8 week placement is a bit unappealing though. but thats just me! One of the placements is aged care, another is surgical and I dont know what the other is.
For midwifery at UniSA, you do actually do placements in 1st year. I know they were doing placements in June, so you do them pretty early on. I understand you can do midwifery there part time if you cant do full time.
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BTW, where are you from? Was it easy for you to find placements locally?
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