I know this isn't the nursing student forum, however that area of the board is largely plagued with nursing students in America! I'm an Australian nursing student scouring All Nursing for any other Australian nursing students who might be interested in forming a study group (online or in real time, I guess it depends on our locations!) or even a resource group to further our studies and share experiences and resources.
It's kind of just an idea up in the air at the moment... I guess I'm wondering how many students there are out there from Australia, first! Perhaps if you exist we could have a good chat and form a group that could be of benefit to all of us and our studies and future careers.
Vaugely, these are some of the ideas that I had:
Study sessions (online or in real time) going by topics. For example by body systems (e.g. cardio, respiratory, GIT etc) and/or by types and areas of care (e.g. mental health, paeds, palliative care, critical care and so forth)
A email resource list with all members emails attached and perhaps a blurb about each person. If another member is looking for something in particular they may be able to find someone else on the list with experience in the area of interest
A forum for a whole range of new friendships of other nurisng students around the country!
Assignment help groups. For example if someone is having trouble with stats then they can ask the group for help regarding their stats assignment and the group has the opportunity to input/lend a hand
Perhaps we could set up our forum public forum and encompass all of these things... ?
I really know what you mean about the challenges in the nursing home - how the residents are treated vs. how they actually are. They're people and sometimes (for me) it seems like the staff I work with forget that. Most of the staff seem so disillusioned with their jobs they seem to have separated the residents into 'things' - work, rather than people requiring care.
I think the skill comes with time. The way the AINs rush through this is because they've been doing it for ages - and our heads are full of book and tute learning. I remember when we learnt sponges and showers there was so much detail and information to retain and how to do is procedurally - when in fact in real life it's just not like that at all. I work in a children's facility at all - there's no fuss about shower shoes and gowns when we shower/bath the kids like there is at the nursing home. We just take our shoes off!
Ohh, another one of us! Nice to meet you! What does CDU stand for? I can't place it... You don't mean Charles Sturt, do you? If so, which campus are you at? I'm really interested in what it must be like to study out in the country is smaller communities.
Your subjects sound really good for this semester! I don't think we specifically do "emergency" (critical care is an elective for us) but I'm doing renal this semester!
Yet another student here.. 1 semester into 18mth EN degree through TAFE in Renmark. Coming up to doing medications, aged care placements, Acute Nursing and Mental Health so this should be an interesting semester.
I am so glad I found this site and it has made so many things clearer. I would love to have others to bounce ideas off of and an online study group sounds great - so many perspectives from so many places..... what more could you ask for??
Hi CDU stands for charles darwin uni in Darwin. I'm doing it external. Which is great. I actually started at UNiversity southern queensland in Toowomba but changed cos iwent to work at Ayers rock.
It was really great studing at a smaller regional uni (usq) very very flexible, you could usually go to any tut / lab on offer if you couldn't make your usual due to small class sizes. They also have a lot of courses on offer over summer which meant you lighten your work load but still finish on time.
CDU is ok. They have ecixting subjects on offer, you get to choose 3 electives and do a 4 week clinical placement in 1. It is a bit weird external I miss the class contact.......but hey it fits in well with work/family. They have regular assessments so you cant fall behind cos there is always something to hand in , sit or discuss.
What do you think of renal? is it compulsory or an elective?
Mine is one of my electives...looks ok it is only my first week ...lol
If any one gets the chance to go to a small country clinical take it, i've beeen to 2 stanthorpe and kilcoy and they were so hands on. I got to try so many skills. So much more than my fellow students who stayed in town.
Welcome Sammy. Sounds like a great semster for you too!
I'm in my 6th and final semester in Perth. I can't believe I'm almost finished!
Good luck to you all. I'd be interested in doing the study group online thing but the units are different university to university and this semester is going to be the most full on one that we have had.
Semester 2 starts for me tomorrow!! YAY I'm really excited to get back to uni - I know its sounds silly, but I'm loving learning. This semester I'm taking
anatomy & physiology 2
clinical health assessment and
health promotion
Glam1 - I started at CDU last year. I personally didn't like the no contact, hence I've moved to on campus study at my local uni. As for taking up rural placement, I'm hoping to go rural once I graduate so hoping to get a placement or two somewhere out in the sticks. QLD health has a great rural scholarship for 2nd and 3rd year students.
Quick question= who here uses a laptop at uni? I got a very nice little one last week and have put all my notes on there ect and am thinking about taking it to uni and type notes instead of writing. Anyone do this? How do you find it? Any good programs I should have?
I've just started Cert III Aged Care AIN at TAFE... First week was just orientation, can't wait to get stuck into it.
Best thing is the wide range of ages and cultural backgrounds and experiences in the class (of about 20 students) and the different specialised areas of our various teachers. Makes for a much better learning experience.
Now if only i could spell:crying2: Sorry guys
rachelgeorgina
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I really know what you mean about the challenges in the nursing home - how the residents are treated vs. how they actually are. They're people and sometimes (for me) it seems like the staff I work with forget that. Most of the staff seem so disillusioned with their jobs they seem to have separated the residents into 'things' - work, rather than people requiring care.
I think the skill comes with time. The way the AINs rush through this is because they've been doing it for ages - and our heads are full of book and tute learning. I remember when we learnt sponges and showers there was so much detail and information to retain and how to do is procedurally - when in fact in real life it's just not like that at all. I work in a children's facility at all - there's no fuss about shower shoes and gowns when we shower/bath the kids like there is at the nursing home. We just take our shoes off!
Which nursing home are you at?