nursing school and stat score

DrBlaze · Nov 12, 2004

Hi,
I hope to get into nursing this year and study at Griffith Uni on the Gold Coast, I applyed on the basis of previous qualifications (bachelor degree in veterinary science obtained oversease after 6 years full-time study) and stat score. Now, I'm worryed that i won't get an offer from Uni and I'm thinking to apply for a nursing course at tafe as well, maybe this will increase my chances for next year . Have any of you got into nursing school by the basis of stat score? What score do I need to have a good chance? I've got an overall score of 167, is this enough? :uhoh21:

Hi Simona

If your degree is somehow recognised in Australia, you shouldn't have any trouble getting into GU nursing.

From what I recall stat is more of a supplement to your exisiting education and an indicator of how you'll perform rather than a method for entry in its own right; I could be wrong though.

David

eirthjona · Nov 14, 2004

Hi

I am at the gu nathan campus. With that stat I dont think you will have any problem From memory that was mine, and I got in at the begining of the year. You will also have one of my favorite teachers teaching you A&P, suzzie. She is realy great.

If you need a hand just PM me.

simona · Nov 16, 2004

Thank you for trying to cheer me up!

DrBlaze,

my degree is 'somehow' recognised here, I have to pass 2 exams in order to work as a registred vet.

eirthjona,

have you sent the personal competencies assessment as well?

eirthjona · Nov 16, 2004

No I just had to pass the stat with a high mark.

Private message me and i can give you first semesters notes for your classes. You have the same subjects for all griffith campuses.

simona · Jan 12, 2005

I want to thank you all for suport and advise,

I'm going to nursing school!!!! , I've been offered a place in Griffith Uni today an I'm sooo happy!

eirthjona · Jan 13, 2005

I am happy for you.

As a side note My mum just got in to uni to do her nursing she is 55.

CDU in Darwin.

now if you want those notes tell me.

Blackbird · Jan 19, 2005

You can use the STAT test as a basis by which to get in, depending on the uni. But heck, if I had a veterinary degree, I'd sit the conversion exams!

pmchap · Feb 4, 2005

vet or nurse - not really that tough a question - where is the vet degree from

? - heck sit the conversion - if you are committed to nursing work part time as a vet while you study.... :balloons:

simona · Feb 4, 2005

It is a tough question!! you have no ideea! Since I was a child I dreamed to be a vet, I put a lot of effort and passion in that...but I don't feel the passion anymore. I think I was too young when I decided to became a vet, too young when I was accepted to uni...at 18 I was student and happy, at 24 I graduated, I don't know where the passion ended but at 28 I started to have serious second thoghts, and here I am, 30 yo and I can't wait to start a new career. It was a very difficult step to admit that I don't want to do this anymore, especially to tell my husband that I want to give up, he was there for me all the time, 6 long years in uni, he was my moral and financial support. When I told my family that I'm not going to do the conversion exams but try to became a nurse I felt so good, I felt free. I know is not easy to understand...

btw: I have a east-european degree

pmchap · Feb 4, 2005

I can understand the concept of wanting a career shift... I completed my nursing - then did a teaching degree (while nursing to pay for it)... then after teaching a short while have now found myself in a nurse education role - a sort of merging of the two. I think that in everything we do we find positives & negatives - it is just wether you feel the negatives outway the positives that determine whether you change or keep doing.....

Cheers

And good luck with nursing - just remember - your patients talk back in nursing... :rotfl: