Thanks so much for the replies!

I think i've missed the cut off date for SATAC, but if its anything like VTAC then you can just pay more and enrol later... but i better just make a decision soon!

I'm worried about commiting to this, and then finding it to hard with a child, especially as we are planning on having more very soon.

I can't finish my science degree, as basically Melb Uni are a bunch of idiots, very unhelpful with everything. They are all 3rd year prac subjects, they envolve a lot of oncampus time (you can't do anything, not even lectures only) off campus at Melb. So it will take me 1.5 years to finish, and in that time i can be 1/2 way through nursing!

And at the end of it, science gets me nowhere, i need to do extra study to do anything with it, so i would rather just cut my losses and do something i like. Not that i didn't like genetics, just didn't like my uni.

My mum is a nurse & midwife - she works at St Vs private, so hopefully she can help me getting some placements, and my friend just finished Div2, and said she knows some places that are good.

So, what i have understood from everything is basically it works the same as Melb uni - 4 subjects per sem as a fulltime load. Of this, in 2nd and 3rd year, one the subjects includes placements for varying lengths, which i have to organise myself ?? or will the uni fix it up for me, and i just have to get another one if i can't go to their.

Also, do you do it like fulltime for a week, or like every Monday for semester?



And before each placement, i have to go to Adelaide for a few days.

Its just that i'm an orthodox Jew, so i can't do anything on Fri nights - Sat nights, and i only eat Kosher food (of which i can't get any in Adelaide), so i'm just a bit worried about going.

But basically i would only have 4 placements for all of uni, and hence 4 workshops to go to??

Do you have to organise your own firstaid/CPR course??

How exactly do i apply for SATAC? What info do i need?

Can you wear a skirt & long sleeved top during nursing (for religious reasons?)

Is there a maximum time you have to complete it? Can you like do 1 subject a semester, or is the minimum 2? Can you do subjects over the summer?

Sorry my questions are a little out of order, i'm just typing them as i think.

About the 4 year combined nursing/mid - at the end of it, would i be qualified as a Div 1 nurse & a midwife?

What is different about that course? Is it better just to do this one and then see how I go about changing?

Is it hard to get it?

Do i pay HECS (or whatever it now is??), and what other fees are involved?

Thanks!

Yael