Dessy

I was accepted into a QH hospital this year but I was not to start until March. I worked in a nursing home from December 2 until mid march when I started with QH. I lasted 3 weeks. I felt that I could give more in aged care and liked the responsibility associated with aged care nursing. I always wanted to do midwifery and I will go and do that in a couple of years. I worked as an AIN all through uni and swore I would never do aged care. But an RN in aged care is quite cushy. No showering or pad changes. It is good to have a break from that. Eventually the hospital system will beacon but aged care is part of the hospital system as well so I hope I have not made the wrong decision. I feel I am contributing alot and are making a difference in alot of these people lives as they near the end of theirs. A graduate program is not alwayus what you expect it to be.

You can go straight in to pediatrics at places like mater childrens hospital that train you in peads as part of your grad year. Graduate certificates in neonatal are also common. Midwifery is what I want to do but I finished uni last year and feel I need the experience in general nursing before commencing middy. Good luck

If you are from WA australia, the degree is the Bachelor of nursing.

I completed my degree last year after doing 4 years of study. My oldest child was 9 when I started, a 6 year old and a 4 month old babe. Organisation is the key and a supportive husband. start part time to ease yourself into study. Im not saying it was easy but it was definitely worth it now I am finished. My babe starts school next year and when I look at him I wonder where the time went but he now has a mother who is onfident and not bored out of her brain at home but who enjoys more the time spent toghether than if I was home permenantly.