UniSA or Flinders for B. Nursing?
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Congrats - great career choices
It depends on what you want out of your Uni and degree as to which Uni you pick. Did you go to the Open Days? You are definately doing the right thing asking people how they found their Uni's.
I studied at UniSA (externally) but enjoyed it. When I was looking at Uni's (which seems like an eternity ago), I found out by asking different nurses that the focus at Flinders is on patient care (i.e. had more placements and really drove in on caring for the patient) where as UniSA is more academic. Having said that, UniSA changes its program every 3 years (not sure if Flinders do the same) and now have more clinical hours than when I went through. But having friends who are currently enrolled at UniSA, I can say they are still very academically focused as when I went through. Before you panic - that doesn't mean you have to be a genius to go there or pass.
I also heard a lot of crap when I was a student about graduates from one University being preferred over the other... and let me just tell you now that that is absolute bull dung. I've never seen anything to suggest that little paddy had any merit
HTH and good luck! When do you find out?
MG
I really enjoyed my studies last year & had no trouble with uni at all. My biggest gripe was not being able to doing any clinical placements at all in 1st year of nursing. Thankfully, there are 3 placement blocks in the 1st year of Mid so I'm looking forward to those 
. The best advice I can give current students is to be prepared to do your clinical's out of sequence (so not at the "designated" time given by the Uni) and even tell the field placement office you are happy to do it out of sequence. In my experience (and having spoken with current students) you are more likely to get the placement you want if you do it out of sequence.
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