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Nursing and Midwifery at University of South Australia - Health Sciences

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    Hi, my name's Chelsea
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    I'm studying Nursing at UniSA at the East campus.
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    My name is Stella Onwuchekwa
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    I'm an international student from Nigeria, studying Nursing.
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    I'm Melissa and I'm studying Midwifery at UniSA
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    and I'm a second year student.
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    We're in the labs once a week, so it gives us a chance to get
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    hands-on and ask experienced nurses and tutors
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    about what it involves and how to care for patients
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    and it just gives us the opportunity to
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    get a real life experience about nursing.
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    We spend lots of time in the labs here at university
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    practicing with models and real equipment and
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    we also spend a lot of time out in hospitals and in clinics.
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    So, we have a small group, tutorial class
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    and then we come to the practical labs.
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    Mostly we work with mannequins and then
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    we work with ourselves and then we go into the facilities
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    during our clinical placements and work with the real world.
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    I get to interact with so many people here.
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    The labs here at uni are set up like a real hospital
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    they've got all real equipment
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    they have dummies, not real people obviously
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    but all the experiences we get at uni are very
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    life-like and it gives us an opportunity
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    to simulate what it would be in a real hospital.
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    We practice injections, taking blood
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    just how to position patients.
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    And we spend time each semester in
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    the labs here, anything from two days up to a week
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    each semester practicing clinical skills before
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    we go out into the hospital.
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    It's been nice in Adelaide, specifically at City East campus
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    it's been really, really nice because we've got
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    teachers, we've got lecturers, we've got tutors who are
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    interested in making sure that we make it where we want to be
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    they want to make sure that we are doing what we want to do
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    and we work to do it really right.
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    I really want to be a pediatric nurse, so when I finish
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    I'm hoping to do my graduate year in a pediatric hospital.
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    I then want to come back and do my Midwifery
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    which UniSA offers.
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    Naturally, I enjoy nursing, because I have a passion for nursing
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    but studying here has also helped me a lot to build up my passion
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    and I've come to enjoy it really, really well
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    I've come to enjoy nursing the old aged
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    and even the mentally disabled
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    and the school is really preparing me for that.
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    I think the experience at UniSA, spending time
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    with the lecturers, and also in the clinical labs
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    practicing our clinical skills has really set me up to
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    go out there and work and feel comfortable and confident
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    straight away in the hospital environment.
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Title:
Nursing and Midwifery at University of South Australia - Health Sciences
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