Please Help RE: Nursing

if you can strike now to a course on dipHE, I see no reason why you couldn't get accepted. However, if you dick around a couple more years until all the dipHE courses are closed, I suspect you will struggle.

Great there was a problem with the dipHE though.

I heard you cant go far with a dipHE in nursing. (As in progressing up the ladder.)

My personal goal is to probably be (Emergency or just) Nurse Practioner or even higher really.

Do you have any ideas about that? Thanks

You can do something with it, if you graduated probably 3 years ago and more, but to end up in a specialist area or management you do need atleast a degree. If you went the DipHe route, most universities will let you top up, like i have in 2nd or 3rd year, so even though i started on the diploma in my 1st year, i'm now studying and will graduate at degree level.

One word of advice though- go into nursing open minded, if you want to end up in critical care, fab- but you're going to have a long hard slog of a few years working in different areas, different placements you may not want to do and get fed up. There was one bloke in the cohort above me, lovely guy, ex-army and went into nursing in his twilight years, wanting to end up in A&E, but has ended up just getting bored, fed up of what he considered boring placements, and when working with me, his mentor asked if he wanted to asisst in a turn, he said 'i dont need to do much more work with that, im going to be an A&E nurse'. Similar story with another student who wanted to go into theatres, on her management told her mentor she didn't want to bother doing drugs round as she'll be a theatre nurse and won't use it...silly bints! I'm not saying you'll end up like that, or have that attitude- but an open mind will mean you'll get the best out of your patients, it's a very bad idea to go into the course with one career in mind- as there are so many outthere you may miss one which is best for you!

Incidentally, i went into the course wanting to go into gynae after..and am now considering endocrinology/critical care!

no offence mate, but i am glad i dont do you job.

Your glad your not a Healthcare Assistant or have I mis understood?

isolation wards = pooey wards lol

That is what I thought he was saying but wasn't sure lmao!

Hopefully being on a difficult ward like that will help with my University application.

I am getting really really stressed about it because I just feel stuck!

its not necessarily difficult..just..you'd be better not having a good sense of smell

Hi hope this helps... I got a D for maths at GCSE (8 years ago!) I was very disappointed with this so I took a Key Skills Level 2 in application of number course to top it up whilst I was studying a BTEC National Diploma at college. I now have 160 Tariff points + 10 GCSE’s 2 A’s, 3 B’s, 4 C’s and only the 1 blimmin D!

However I have been Rejected for all Nursing courses at the UEA as they say they don’t recognise any non academic qualifications (in their eyes anything other than GCSE's or A Levels!)

Anglia Ruskin University have said I meet all there entry requirements for DipHE and the BSc courses and I’m awaiting further news! (Fingers crossed) so my advice is to check individual universities for there entry requirements some are fussier than others and if you get rejected by one don’t give up try somewhere else!

Good Luck! x