Im doing my Bachelor of Nursing via external study with Charles Darwin University. Im currently one unit a semester because my husband is away but next year I will be doing 2 units a semester (part time). Part time takes around 6 years depending on how many subjects you do and how long that particular Uni's course is (some are 2, some are 3, some are 4).
Im 100% going to do my Masters in Midwifery after I finish my degree. I would have done just a midwifery degree if I had of had the opportunity where I live but I dont so its nursing or bust.
I entered as a mature age student with my HSC (OP or whatever the equiv is in Qld) but I know that others who havent done HSC or Enrolled nursing had to do a bridging course of 6mths first. I honestly wouldnt do the EN course at TAFE first unless your planning on working while you study (which I personally wouldnt recommend with kids as well!)
My uni offers a combined nursing/mid degree that is 4 years full time. I am 6 months in and it's about to get full on!!!! We start our mid subjects this semester. At the end of the degree I will be a registered nurse and a registered midwife. I am not too fussed on the nursing aspects although I could be a theater nurse or something like that (just not a nurse on an acute ward) my end goal is midwife but I do think it is more benifical for me to have the nursing as well as I am in a rural area.
I only completed yr 11 and got into uni the year i turned 19 and did nursing! i got straight into my middy after nursing but decided i needed to cement my nursing skills before doing mid....10yrs on i still havent got back to the middy, life jusy happened but ill get there. i a happy i went nursing first, i know ill be a better mid for it
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