Nursing and Midwifery at University of South Australia - Health Sciences

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Hi, my name's Chelsea

I'm studying Nursing at UniSA at the East campus.

My name is Stella Onwuchekwa

I'm an international student from Nigeria, studying Nursing.

I'm Melissa and I'm studying Midwifery at UniSA

and I'm a second year student.

We're in the labs once a week, so it gives us a chance to get

hands-on and ask experienced nurses and tutors

about what it involves and how to care for patients

and it just gives us the opportunity to

get a real life experience about nursing.

We spend lots of time in the labs here at university

practicing with models and real equipment and

we also spend a lot of time out in hospitals and in clinics.

So, we have a small group, tutorial class

and then we come to the practical labs.

Mostly we work with mannequins and then

we work with ourselves and then we go into the facilities

during our clinical placements and work with the real world.

I get to interact with so many people here.

The labs here at uni are set up like a real hospital

they've got all real equipment

they have dummies, not real people obviously

but all the experiences we get at uni are very

life-like and it gives us an opportunity

to simulate what it would be in a real hospital.

We practice injections, taking blood

just how to position patients.

And we spend time each semester in

the labs here, anything from two days up to a week

each semester practicing clinical skills before

we go out into the hospital.

It's been nice in Adelaide, specifically at City East campus

it's been really, really nice because we've got

teachers, we've got lecturers, we've got tutors who are

interested in making sure that we make it where we want to be

they want to make sure that we are doing what we want to do

and we work to do it really right.

I really want to be a pediatric nurse, so when I finish

I'm hoping to do my graduate year in a pediatric hospital.

I then want to come back and do my Midwifery

which UniSA offers.

Naturally, I enjoy nursing, because I have a passion for nursing

but studying here has also helped me a lot to build up my passion

and I've come to enjoy it really, really well

I've come to enjoy nursing the old aged

and even the mentally disabled

and the school is really preparing me for that.

I think the experience at UniSA, spending time

with the lecturers, and also in the clinical labs

practicing our clinical skills has really set me up to

go out there and work and feel comfortable and confident

straight away in the hospital environment.

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