Mature Nursing

January

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I've been a nursing for 26 years now and I wouldn't do anything else.
It's challenging, tiring, infuriating, but incredibly rewarding.
I'm a CNM2 in Intellectual Disability, specialising in persons with challenging behaviour, and I love my job.
Anyone with the constitution to become a nurse is a person apart from the flock and is in for an interesting career!

My first choice is midwifery but I have children's and general integrated as my second and third choices. I really really want mids but after spending a week in the Heart Centre in Crumlin with my daughter 2 years ago I'd be happy with c&g too. Just have to keep the fingers crossed until offers come out!

CiDeRmAn

Best of luck, and with that attitude we'll be lucky to add you to our ranks, as a good nurse, no higher accolade exists!

tomhenryford

Hi there,

I got my results last week and I noticed that it said on the message that 'you will be placed on an order of merit list for each mature nursing course applied for'.

Does anyone know what that means? I'm struggling between the order of my Top 3 and I thought I'd only be offered my No.1 if I achieved the score and had it Number 1 but now I'm wondering after reading that sentence do we get an offer for each course we have listed irrelevant of order as long as we achieve the score?

Or am I reading it wrong.

January

No you still only get one offer, if you don't get your number 1 offer in the first round it's possible that you could be offered it in the second round.

P65421

Is it the people with the highest score get the offer first even if I have 181 if people have higher they will get first choice so there is still no guarantee its very confusing...

January

P65421 wrote: »

Is it the people with the highest score get the offer first even if I have 181 if people have higher they will get first choice so there is still no guarantee its very confusing...

Yes there is an order of merit list for each course, highest points get offered the places first.

P65421

Any help on how to join the facebook rollercoaster group I've requested twice but am getting no reply....I really want to find out how others got on and to see what my chances are....

tomhenryford

P65421 wrote: »

Any help on how to join the facebook rollercoaster group I've requested twice but am getting no reply....I really want to find out how others got on and to see what my chances are....

Me too - requested but no reply.

tomhenryford

January wrote: »

Yes there is an order of merit list for each course, highest points get offered the places first.

You see this is what is confusing me. Say for example I got the highest score but I had 4 courses listed.

If there's an order of merit list for each course then is my score not at the top of each list therefore being offered all 4 courses?

Or to put it another way - (if) I was the highest scorer and changed my mind about my order of preference after the closing date how would it work...

If my first choice was offered at 215 but I really wanted my 3rd choice the places for my 3rd choice were offered to people of lower points that means as the highest scorer I still don't get what I want.

I still think the CAO preference system is too restrictive.

P65421

I got accepted to it this morning...I don't really understand the whole system either....and if there is only a few spaces in colleges for mature students it's almost impossible to he guaranteed a place....

yellbell

Would you let me know the name of the fb page. Thanks!

jenz101

cazrach wrote: »

You could do intellectual disability nursing? I work in that field it's very rewarding and you can post grad into children's nursing afterwards?

i would liek to do that anything nursing i would like to do, but must i change my courses around then for the cao

January

tomhenryford wrote: »

You see this is what is confusing me. Say for example I got the highest score but I had 4 courses listed.

If there's an order of merit list for each course then is my score not at the top of each list therefore being offered all 4 courses?

Or to put it another way - (if) I was the highest scorer and changed my mind about my order of preference after the closing date how would it work...

If my first choice was offered at 215 but I really wanted my 3rd choice the places for my 3rd choice were offered to people of lower points that means as the highest scorer I still don't get what I want.

I still think the CAO preference system is too restrictive.

If you were at the top of the order of merit list for your 4 choices you'd only be offered your first choice. You can't change your mind about your order of preference after the closing date either. It'd be a mess if they did it that way.

CiDeRmAn

It's kind of depressing that such a person dependent career has it's admissions gated by points, which are personality independent.
You wind up with some smart people with no interpersonal skills whatsoever, although this is more a feature of school graduates entering the college programme directly.
In my day, said the old soldier, we had an ok leaving but the focus was on the interview, and that determined entry or not.
We had "mature" students, which is funny to look back on, calling people in their 20's as mature, no offence, and we also had folk without the needed leaving but with experience as care assistants making the leap into nursing too.
Nursing was an apprenticeship back then, in 1990 when I started, and it generated a more practically minded nurse, and a nurse with a desire to spend their time with the people they were charged with helping rather than the paperwork.
Now, as a CNM2, my day is consumed by paperwork!!!! But I still function as a member of the nursing team as well, and it gives me a great sense of wellbeing, and enhances my management approach too.

I hope everyone going for nursing here gets what the want, what they need, and if you don't get it this time but feel passionate about the career, keep trying, and we look forward to seeing you!

January

It's still an apprenticeship in England isn't it? That would probably be a much better way to do it.

P65421

yellbell wrote: »

Would you let me know the name of the fb page. Thanks!

Rollercoaster nursing and midwives it should come up its totally private until you are accepted but it's great full of info....

January

It's actually Rollercoaster Nursing/Midwives. (Just in case you can't find it under nursing and midwives).

G16

I have tried joining Rollercoaster nursing/midwive & messaged a few times... Is there any other way to join?

yellbell

G16 wrote: »

I have tried joining Rollercoaster nursing/midwive & messaged a few times... Is there any other way to join?

I have tried too but have heard nothing from them!

January

A few people were added yesterday and today.

yellbell

Anyone looking to go to LYIT? i got 170 points not sure now if i should change my first choice from General to psychiatric. I think I may have a better chance?

January

You could still get offered psych first round and then be offered gen in second round so I'd leave your choices as they are if you really want gen because if you swap them around and get psych as your first choice you won't be offered anything else in any other round.

jenz101

Is it today the first round of offers go out has anybody recieved any offers?

jenz101

Is it today the first round of offers go out has anybody recieved any offers?

jenz101

Is it today the first round of offers go out has anybody recieved any offers?

January

Wednesday is offers. 10am.

jenz101

January wrote: »

Wednesday is offers. 10am.

Ok thanks it's just there website says today

jenz101

January wrote: »

Wednesday is offers. 10am.

Ok thanks it's just there website says today

January

2015 dates on the website.

nicky21

So excited and nervous !! 😆