UCD Nursing

CatEyed92

Hey I just have a few questions

I went to UCC last year and I'm not 100% in love with it to be honest.
I also am afraid I still won't get points for nursing in cork.
I just want to ask what nursing is like in ucd? Is there accomodation on the campus? What is it like in general up there?

Thanks!

leesmom

CatEyed92 wrote: »

Hey I just have a few questions

I went to UCC last year and I'm not 100% in love with it to be honest.
I also am afraid I still won't get points for nursing in cork.
I just want to ask what nursing is like in ucd? Is there accomodation on the campus? What is it like in general up there?

Thanks!

Did you go to the open day?
If not head up one day and take a look around the health sciences building (that's where nursing lectures are held). Also, there is on campus accomodation. Take a look at the ucd web site it's give a lot of info regarding the modules covered etc and the hospitals ucd is affiliated with- Vincent's, the mater and at michaels.

LadyE

There are places to live on campus.
nursing is fantastic, Id really recommend UCD, am doing it now if you have any questions?

Siobhnk

I love nursing in UCD
I think I PMed you before about it? If you have any other questions fire away

Eurovisionmad

Main thing to watch out for if you want on campus accommodation in UCD is that you have to register your interest with UCD somewhere in March generally (you should be able to find it on the accommodation website here) rather applying for a room when you get you CAO in August which is the case in some other Universities.

To get a high place on the list and raise your chances of getting a room you should stay up until middnight or whenever it opens to be one of the first as it fills up very fast, you don't have to pay anything at that point AFAIK, so it's worthwhile doing it even if it's not your first choice just in case!

The main thing is not to be caught out, and get an offer in August and not have applied for a room if you want one!

CatEyed92

Eurovisionmad wrote: »

Main thing to watch out for if you want on campus accommodation in UCD is that you have to register your interest with UCD somewhere in March generally (you should be able to find it on the accommodation website here) rather applying for a room when you get you CAO in August which is the case in some other Universities.

To get a high place on the list and raise your chances of getting a room you should stay up until middnight or whenever it opens to be one of the first as it fills up very fast, you don't have to pay anything at that point AFAIK, so it's worthwhile doing it even if it's not your first choice just in case!

The main thing is not to be caught out, and get an offer in August and not have applied for a room if you want one!

That's interesting. If I got UCD, I would be taking a year out then to work for it you know?

yoloyolo

Hey cateyed92!
I'm in first year gen ursing in ucd at the mo, so might be able to fill ya in on a thing or two up there.. To the opposite of you, i was mad to go to cork to do nursing, but i didn't get the points so i got ucd i can't remember when i applied for accom but as eurovisionmad already said, you do need to stay up til all hours to get high up in the waiting list, find out the date it opens and be ready for an all nighter! (i had to keep applying every hour or so cause it crashed). Anyway, i'm in merville, place is done up so tis gorgeously new, but some of the first few houses aren't done up yet! know people in all the other accoms and new merville is even nicer than those, and cheaper

Anyway, the course.. Few dif modules, main nursing module which have lectures and about an hour and a half lab at some stage during the week, that's the best part and you learn a lot in them! Have physiology and anatomy, psychology, and electives too.. All in all i think we had about 11ish hours i think a week, friday off all the lecturers are fairly sound and the health sciences building is fairly new

We had to pick between the mater or vincents healthcare group.. With vincents in hospitals like the beacon, st michaels, vincents public and a few others! uniforms are provided and shifts and all depend where u are! have about 5 weeks (i think?) when u come back after christmas, back in college for 4 (fairly full on hours almost 9-4 or 5 most days!), and finish out with i think 6 weeks on placement..

Hope i've filled you in a bit, any more questions just ask!

clairec463

I have applied for General nursing in UCD for next year and I'm just wondering about hours? how many lectures did anyone have per week ? and were they spaced out? did you finish early any days? I saw yoloyolo had fridays free and Im just wondering did anyone else have a similar kind of timetable? Thanks!

lemonglasses

hey im interested in doing general nursing next year and i have tcd down first and ucd second . is the university far from the hospitals ? also is it on main campus or off campus like tcd ? any info will be appreciated

yoloyolo

clairec463 wrote: »

I have applied for General nursing in UCD for next year and I'm just wondering about hours? how many lectures did anyone have per week ? and were they spaced out? did you finish early any days? I saw yoloyolo had fridays free and Im just wondering did anyone else have a similar kind of timetable? Thanks!

I had about 13 hours in the first semester, had like 2 hours on a tues and fri off, pretty handy.. Second semester now though we're fairly flat out, think I have about 28 hours for these 4 weeks, 5 9 o clock mornins and all.. Although it's better than the 12 hour shifts 3 days a week in the hospital! This is only for 4 weeks though cause we're back into the hospital for 6 weeks in march, hope this helps! Happy to answer any others qs

yoloyolo

lemonglasses wrote: »

hey im interested in doing general nursing next year and i have tcd down first and ucd second . is the university far from the hospitals ? also is it on main campus or off campus like tcd ? any info will be appreciated

Hey well it depends which hospitals u go for, u either pick the mater, so you could be there or in the mater private or clontarf.. Or then there's st vincents healthcare group, so you could be in vincents public or private, blackrock clinic, michaels or the beacon.. So you could end up anywhere! A lot of the hospitals u can get buses or the luas to, but if u start at 7 in the morn sometimes the buses wouldn't be started yet, so u could have to cycle! No you're on campus, health sciences building is at one side of the campus! Although it takes 10 mins to walk there from on campus accom, place is pretty big! hope I helped answer your qs or if u have any others!

clairec463

thank you so much yoloyolo! really helpful I hope I get it and that its not too heavy a load at the start give me and everyone else a chance to settle down!

Gitiana

Not to drag up an old thread, but i just accepted a place in general nursing in ucd and i cant make up my mind to take the mater or st vincents. Any help please??

Siobhnk

Well I started last year and I chose Vincents. You get just as many opportunities in both hospitals, but Vincents is a short walk from ucd, which is handy for occupational health appointments during college. Also dead handy during placement if you live on campus. With Vincents you could also be in Michaels in dun laoighre, Vincents private, blackrock, loughlinstown and the beacon for a few placements. With the mater you could be in clontarf, fairview, matet private and I'm not too sure of the other hospitals.

Gitiana

I dont really mind the distance, but which hospital would be a broader experience, the equipment, atmosphere etc?

Siobhnk

You get pretty much the same experience in both. The only major difference is Vincents is 3 long days while the mater is 4 3/4 days I think.

yoloyolo

Gitiana wrote: »

I dont really mind the distance, but which hospital would be a broader experience, the equipment, atmosphere etc?

Hey,
I think you'd get just as much experience in either hospital, first year is quite general placement wise. I went with vincents and i got to be in the beacon and vincents public, i think we all got to go to one public and one private hospital in first year, no too sure about everyone in the mater! second year is where you really get the broader experience because you'll be doing you're specialist placements in a few different places, you'll never be completely tied down to the hospital til 3rd/4th year i'd say
vincents is literally 20 mins down the road on foot so you wouldn't have to be trekking into town on a bus to the mater, plus the 3 full days is good, more reality of what working would be like i guess
i think a lot of people seem to go with vincents because it's the closest to the college, so send back the form asap if you decide to go with them hope you're looking forward to it!:)

Cosmicfox

I seem to have enough points to have a chance of getting general nursing (I don't get UCD's points system 420-540 why put the two? I have 450 anyway) but not anywhere near enough for children's nursing.

Does anyone know if you can do general nursing and then go on later to do children's nursing? Or do you have to do it from the beginning?

WildRosie

You can do Children's Nursing as a H.Dip link You can do it in TCD and DCU also I think and probably UCC. You need to have at least six months post qualification experience. The points for general in UCD were 430. The 430-540 is the range of points that people who were offered places had. So the highest points that someone offered a place had was 540 and the lowest 430.

Cosmicfox

Thanks. The other places I was looking at just gave the one number.

Becca96

Does anyone know if its possible to get into nursing through arts? I'm just not sure if I'll get enough points for general nursing.