What can you expect?
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Get going on the practical things you can do before you start:
Here's a checklist you can use.
- Find out if my university offers orientation online, which I can do before I start
- Make sure my university has my current email address
- Find out what subjects I'll be studying in my first session
- Get my lecture and tutorial timetable
- Find out what I need to do for clinical placements, like vaccinations, police checks, working with children accreditation and clothing
- Find out what I need to know to stay safe in the science and nursing laboratory
- Find out if my Faculty or Course has any social networks I can join, like Facebook, Pinterest or YouTube
- Find out what resources and support my university offers to help me: balance study and work as a mature age student; study by distance; as the first in my family to go to university; manage costs
- Keep in touch with what's happening in the field of nursing, with useful sources like:
Talk and write bioscience
Understand how medical and anatomical terminology works, and become familiar with the key concepts you will learn in your course with Success in (Surviving) BioScience and Pharmacology. It's an invaluable reference ebook for diploma nurses transitioning to a Bachelor of Nursing course, created by Sheila A Doggrell, Sally Schaffer, Jillian Rowe and Nina Prasolova from Queensland University of Technology. Visit it online or download the PDF
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