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2bRN23

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Monday 13 May 2013 6:21:03 pm

Re: CQU? CDU? Questions about external study.

Thanks for your reply.

At this stage I'm just going to suck it up and finish my degree internally at my current university. This year is going by so quickly, by the end of next year I will be an RN. Hard to believe. I actually found my EN course to be much tougher and stricter then the university degree. The emphasis on my EN training was building strong clinical skills, whereas the focus of the bachelor degree definately seems to be on the theory side of things. It's very strange to me, the courses are polar opposites. 

I am so glad I did my EN diploma first for many reasons: it will be much easier for me to secure work when I'm done my degree due to my EN acute care experience. And in the currthankful economy for new graduates, having experience is huge. My practical skills appear much more ahead of the straight bachelor degree educated students (just my experience) and I don't have any commonwealth student debt for either course now.

I do feel that parts of the degree I could have been given credit for ie: any practical skills subject Is just reinforcing what i have already been taught. But oh well I guess universities don't realise that ENs are well educated in their own way. 

good luck with your EN course!