Aug 20, 2008, 04:23 pm
Hi Abraham,
I finished year 12 in 2006 and missed out by half a point on getting in to Uni of Canberra. I had considered the EN pathway, and would have liked to have done it, but at the time I didn't have the work experience requirements to get into the EN course at CIT. I didn't want to move away, even though I could have got into most of the other uni's in NSW, so I ended up doing it by correspondence through the university of south australia, with some hopes of transferring over. The downside was the credit wasn't worth transferring over, but I can finish my study at the end of next year :) motivation is difficult sometimes, but if it is something you really want to do and you are motivated enough it could be an option, depending on your UAI, everyone draws their own line to good and bad. I thinkt he scores to get into UniSA were in the low 60's, I don't know exactly what you got. I know Charles Darwin Uni and Uni of central QLD do it externally too, don't know what their scores are like.
I'm pretty sure the trainee EN applications are closed until the round for next september, so hopefully either you applied or decided against that! If you applied then good luck, just because your scores weren't as good as someone else's doesn't mean you wont be a better nurse... if it's what you really want to do then you can find a way to do it :)
Good luck!
