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Nursing plcs

  • 20-01-2014 8:57am
    #1
    ynwa14
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 178 ✭✭


    Hi there, just posting a question on my mates behalf. She did her LC last year and took a year out, now she's considering starting the old education route again. The job of a psychiatric nurse really appeals to her, she'd either like to work in that field or as a nurse in a health care team in a prison or something like that. She wouldn't have the points to study it in Dublin unfortunately so is looking at the route of doing a nursing plc. Now to the concerns she wanted me to ask about

    - The amount of fetac places for nursing at third level. With such a high volume of people doing it all you hear is that its impossible to get a place in Ireland.
    - Would she be better off doing general nursing and then specialising or going into psych nursing straight off?
    - Would there be an opportunity for her to do nursing in the uk if she didn't get a place when she's applying through fetac? An old neighbour of mine did that and ended up moving to Scotland because she couldn't get a place here, so how would that option work?

    Also anyone doing nursing PLCs in Dublin able to recommend a superior college or is all the same?


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  • #2
    Houset
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 70 ✭✭Houset


    Hi, I am doing a pre-nursing course at the minute. I hope my reply helps your friend.
    If your friend is interested in Psych nursing she is better off doing the Psychiatric nursing degree because if she does General Nursing here, she will have to go back and do another 4 years in Ireland. I think its different in England though, I think they allow you to do an extra 1 or 2 years to go back and do Psych nursing. I don't know much about that unfortunately.
    Here is a link listing the places available through Fetac in all the colleges in Ireland:
    http://www2.cao.ie/fetac/FETACNursingQuota.pdf
    Yes she can apply to both England and Ireland when she is doing her Fetac course. UCAS is the equivalant of CAO here. http://www.ucas.com/ She can apply to 5 colleges in England or Scotland. Its like the Cao, She has to register with them just like the CAO. They require that you write a Personal Statement which is all about why you want to do nursing and all about yourself. However she must write in that she wants to do Psych nursing only as they only want you to apply for one type of nursing only that's if she decides that's definitely what she wants to do. I am not from Dublin so I dont know of any of the colleges there.
    best of luck to your mate in her future studies :)


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