Anyone doing ID nursing in trinity?

keefs08

What do u think of it??..would u recommend it?? im considering doing it i did wana do midwifery but dont have the points

Cantab.

WTF is "ID nursing"?

BA ID Nursing (Hons.)

What colour is the hood for this degree?

spurious

Intellectual Disability?

sheila2278

hey im thinking of doing nursing...not sure if really want to..!!! help any advice???x

Thelikefaneire

Hi, 21 male doing general nursing. I'm repeating second year, i should be in 3rd year, but things don't always go as planed.

Any questions feel free to ask.

I would recommend the course to a lot of people. It may be full on in first year and you're not a part of campus life but its a worth while course. As the time moves on the lectures aren't as heavy and you become free for a lot more "self directed learning". This is supposed to help you study, but between study, lecture's, placement and the social life of the average nursing student, its basically an excuse for sleep or to try and squeeze in some campus life.:p

I may not be the best person to give advise on the course as i don't actually want to do it anymore, other dreams etc but with the way the world is at the moment i need a degree and you can take nursing anywhere. Most Irish nurse's do and that's why theres so few of us out on the wards.

If you do decide to take it up, see you on the wards in Australia or Canada in a few years time:cool:

sheila2278

hey thanks for the advice!!!!:):):):)
when you start your course and working in the fields....does you social life end??? i suppose going to australia would be cool,,,since im from there....so i wouldnt have to worry about a visa....!!!! i do have doubt in doing it...im afraid ill start the course and then hate it....really dont want that to happen cause ill be too old to repeat the leaving!!!!xxx

Thelikefaneire

Your social life is in safe hands, ents, student union and student reps will make sure of that and theres 250 people in your year that you'll get to meet if you decide to join.

It's a pretty full on course at the start, when i started nearly 20 people quit, and more over time, with several failing second year, like myself.

If you really want to do it you'll love it. The real shock doesn't come till the january anyway, thats when your first placement will be. :eek:wow so long ago.:rolleyes:

sheila2278

Thelikefaneire wrote: »

Your social life is in safe hands, ents, student union and student reps will make sure of that and theres 250 people in your year that you'll get to meet if you decide to join.

It's a pretty full on course at the start, when i started nearly 20 people quit, and more over time, with several failing second year, like myself.

If you really want to do it you'll love it. The real shock doesn't come till the january anyway, thats when your first placement will be. :eek:wow so long ago.:rolleyes:

cool thanks thats great....wow 20 thats alot to drop out!!! yea thats going to be scary :eek::eek: but thanks again

bethm24

ey ya,

Make sure you are making the right choice here, Trust me im a nurse, and it is a very tough career in so many ways. You have to be a real peoples person, good communicater, great team player, tolerance, able to handle ALOT of pressure, huge responsibility- the patients are in your hands and sometimes itis just so short staffed that it is very dangerous practise sometimes. You dont get breaks, most of the time u dont have time to go to the bathroom, sometimes you have people yelling at you, you often have doctors ordering you about and you feel like a skivvy, some patients think you are there private waitress and because you have to be "nice as pie" all the time, and believe me management are watching you, you have to smile all day long and take all the **** that comes flying at you! Your on your own maybe with a drug you dont know anything about, its 5 in the evening, your on with another nurse who has not a clue a bitchy matron, doctor is busy, you have to do a procedure u know nothing about!! Its so hard man, just so you know it mostly sucks.

You work a 37 and half hour week (well usually it is so busy u just cant leave at the time you should be leaving and no one cares and they are always asking u to stay and do overtime).
You will work from 7.45 to 8.00pm two days in the week
You will work 7.45 to 5 or 6
Then you have a short day 7.45 to 3 or 2
It depends
Then every 4 weeks(depends) you do night duty
You work 4 nights 8.00pm to 08.00am mon to thurs
Then you are off till the following fri nite, sat nite and sun nite you work. Then comes the fun bit you are straight back on days for usually a 12 hour shift on that tuesday, So u sleep all day monday (or else get up and be horrible to everyone) and get up 4 work again for the tuesday , so for me u dont enjoy the break on the nights cause you are dreading going back in there/

Well now maybe u will love nursing, i just wish someone had been straight with me b4 i did it! Good luck!! Oh and i hope you wont mind cleaning a million bums a day, thats the least of our worries!!!:pac:

sheila2278

hey thanks for the straight answer i ve been looking for!!!!ill be def having a good long think about doing it!!!

Thelikefaneire

Wow nice to see the bitter truth.

Of course, i must also interject that its far cushier as a student. 35 hour weeks and all that.

But yeah, basically you're watched like a hawk, out of your debt, misstreated, under and overestimated in your ability and the job mainly requires wipping arse's and looking after them, in more sense than one.:rolleyes:

bethm24 wrote: »

ey ya,

Make sure you are making the right choice here, Trust me im a nurse, and it is a very tough career in so many ways. You have to be a real peoples person, good communicater, great team player, tolerance, able to handle ALOT of pressure, huge responsibility- the patients are in your hands and sometimes itis just so short staffed that it is very dangerous practise sometimes. You dont get breaks, most of the time u dont have time to go to the bathroom, sometimes you have people yelling at you, you often have doctors ordering you about and you feel like a skivvy, some patients think you are there private waitress and because you have to be "nice as pie" all the time, and believe me management are watching you, you have to smile all day long and take all the **** that comes flying at you! Your on your own maybe with a drug you dont know anything about, its 5 in the evening, your on with another nurse who has not a clue a bitchy matron, doctor is busy, you have to do a procedure u know nothing about!! Its so hard man, just so you know it mostly sucks.

You work a 37 and half hour week (well usually it is so busy u just cant leave at the time you should be leaving and no one cares and they are always asking u to stay and do overtime).
You will work from 7.45 to 8.00pm two days in the week
You will work 7.45 to 5 or 6
Then you have a short day 7.45 to 3 or 2
It depends
Then every 4 weeks(depends) you do night duty
You work 4 nights 8.00pm to 08.00am mon to thurs
Then you are off till the following fri nite, sat nite and sun nite you work. Then comes the fun bit you are straight back on days for usually a 12 hour shift on that tuesday, So u sleep all day monday (or else get up and be horrible to everyone) and get up 4 work again for the tuesday , so for me u dont enjoy the break on the nights cause you are dreading going back in there/

Well now maybe u will love nursing, i just wish someone had been straight with me b4 i did it! Good luck!! Oh and i hope you wont mind cleaning a million bums a day, thats the least of our worries!!!:pac: