nursing school and stat score

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

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.

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?

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.

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!

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.

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!

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:

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

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: