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Hi all
Next year I am either going to be studying Midwifery or Nursing in South Australia. I am not confident about getting into Midwifery based on my year 12 results so I am trying to decide which Uni I will study Nursing at if I dont get in to Midwifery.
If anyone has any experiences with UniSA or Flinders and could help me make a decision I would really appreciate it!! I will be studying full time and internally.
Thanks
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
thanks for the info it was good help, I had decided I would choose UniSA but now I dont need to choose because I got into midwifery at UniSA!! So excited!!
Hi I have just been accepted into UniSa BMid (external).WOW :D
I would love to hear from you guys that are doing it aswell.
i will be doing nursing through uni SA next yr but on campus
congratulations Inthenow, I am doing it internally i cant wait to start :)
I just finished the 1st year of B.Nursing at UniSA in 2008 but this year I've been accepted into B.Mid instead :dance: 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 :)
I'm aware there are big issues regarding placements this year for the UniSA nursing students though & lots of students, especially those not based in Adelaide, are anxiously waiting to hear the outcome at the moment.
I can't wait to get started!
Sadly, securing placements for students has always been an issue - there are more students than there are places in the hospitals. All the Uni's are in the same boat. It is getting harder and harder as more Universities offer these courses and numbers in exisiting Uni's increase... but the placement spots in hospitals don't :wall:. 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.:
HTH and good luck to all studying this year.
MG