Nursing

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My name’s Gemma, and I’ve got a Bachelor of Nursing from QUT.

I chose QUT because it has a great reputation both in Australia and overseas, and they get some wonderful funding, so there’s always great projects going on.

One of my favourite parts about the course was all of the clinical practise I got to do. On campus in the Clinical Simulation Centre, and off campus at places like emergency departments and intensive care units.

And in my degree I got the great opportunity to work with a lot of different health professionals. Like paramedics, psychologists, doctors, dieticians. It really made me ready for my job within a hospital.

I love to travel, and my degree has really set me up well to both see the world and use my nursing skills at the same time. I’ve been to places like Borneo, Thailand, Costa Rica, Papua New Guinea, and I’m heading to Vietnam really shortly. On my trips I’ve been able to help set up health clinics. I’ve done vaccinations, I’ve done dressings.

I work at Greenslopes Private Hospital, registered nurse, dual specialty in the post-anaesthetic care unit - or recovery - and anaesthetic nursing.

I love being a nurse because I really make a difference in people’s lives.

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I’m Carlie Nielson, I’m currently studying my Graduate Diploma in Oncology Nursing.

The great thing about QUT is that you can build upon your education.

So I started with my Graduate Certificate in Cancer Nursing then I had a break, focused on my family and then I came back and I’m currently doing my Graduate Diploma in Cancer Nursing. And then if I choose to do my masters I can actually use my credits that I’ve earned through the last two courses and they will be applied to my masters in nursing.

The flexibility that QUT has offered me to study externally has been fabulous.

It’s allowed me to focus on the things that are important to me in life such as my work, my study and also my family.

Interaction with the lecturers has been very very easy.

With the email, with the telephoning and also with teleconferencing it’s been very simple.

QUT offers a vast range of specialist areas to study in within nursing.

The lecturers here and the university have a great reputation.

They have lecturers that are world renowned and well known, and well respected within the nursing community.

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Postgraduate studies in nursing at QUT are designed for registered nurses, whether they’re hospital or university trained, so that they can come and upgrade their qualifications in an area of interest to them.

One of the great advantages of studying at QUT with our staff in nursing is the fact that we’re all very experienced clinically in the fields. A lot of us are actually working while we’re teaching in particular health facilities, either researching or working clinically, and we actually really have an understanding of what your needs are in terms of learning. So we’ve got a very flexible program.

We can offer things internally, we can offer study externally – completely online, we’ll offer you teleconferences, personal email contact, face-to-face contact, if you need it and you can accommodate that. Vodcasts, so if you’re working night duty, you can actually stream our lectures as you are having a shift break or something. So our courses are actually really flexible.

We know that some of you are a bit concerned about the costs of high degree study. To offset that concern, we actually have inour graduate certificate program, Commonwealth support. That means that the Government actually pay for a fair proportion of your study costs, up to about 50% roughly, for the four units of the graduate certificate and that particular arrangement also holds for our nurse practitioner students.

One of the other advantages of studying, if you come from a Queensland Health facility for example, is that you can actually have your facility pay some way towards your study costs with your SARIS or your professional development leave funding.

One of the great things about graduating from QUT is that it upgrades your qualifications and that’s often recognised by your employer in terms of an upgrading pay to actually recognise that qualification.

Study can be tailored to what your learning needs are, you can actually do a clinical stream, a research stream or what we call a professionals studies stream that’s tailored to your needs.

Our clinical areas of expertise are in aged care and dementia, cancer nursing, palliative care, intensive care, emergency, woman’s health, acute care which encompasses things like renal and orthopaedics according to your needs. So we offer a variety of study areas that should be able to be tailored to everything that you need to do.

One of the great advantages of our clinical streams is that they’re workplace based, so a lot of your study is actually tailored towards what you’re practising at the moment in the field and the assessments are actually based on what you are doing at work, at that given time. Which is a real advantage because it’s a very economical way of studying as well as a very practiced real world way of studying.

So if you’re interested in coming to study with us at QUT in nursing, please give me a ring or come and see me personally, I’m really happy to talk to any of you, to chat to see what sort of program we can tailor for your needs and help you get ahead to where you want to go.