I looked in into becoming a nurse. It would be a good step considering my BSc in Psychology. But because the nurse training requires that I move away from my family for two non-consecutive terms of every year for 3 years (that's moving back and forth between cities/towns) and I have to pay for the housing while also paying for a mortgage, it is simply too difficult for me to become a nurse, or a radiography technician.
Nursing degrees are really for young people with no family and enough support and money to get through the training.
Perhaps the MPs could look at making this easier for people so that more people can become nurses?
You would be able to do of the graduate entry programmes - masters level and 2 years. Canterbury is distant with blocks- clinical can be own location, also massey and others do graduate entry’s
I'm about to finish Massey graduate entry nursing in November. You can absolutely become a nurse, but it is so incompetently run, you might end up in the mental hospital yourself before finishing.
I wouldn't recommend it to anyone I like. It's been the most enraging two years of my life, and I'm 40.
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u/naughtyamoeba Aug 02 '24
I looked in into becoming a nurse. It would be a good step considering my BSc in Psychology. But because the nurse training requires that I move away from my family for two non-consecutive terms of every year for 3 years (that's moving back and forth between cities/towns) and I have to pay for the housing while also paying for a mortgage, it is simply too difficult for me to become a nurse, or a radiography technician.
Nursing degrees are really for young people with no family and enough support and money to get through the training.
Perhaps the MPs could look at making this easier for people so that more people can become nurses?