USyd Scraps Nursing (1 Viewer)

[jm1234567890]

UOW also has lots of nursing places

 

[cayte]

This just further devalues a profession which already has a huge marketability problem. I've always had an inkling that USyd is only interested in churning out an army of lawyers and businessmen. How noble.

 

[theone123]

argubly i fink you all cant really do much about it, it is sincerely the university's decision to rule it out.

 

[lengstar]

Originally posted by johnson
lengstar, it says that future undergrads will be moved to UTS or ACU. does that mean you are affected?

no i wont be affected apparently, thanks for the concern, but i'm still going to get a petition signed and lobby against it.

 

[santaslayer]

You will still be affected to a certain degree IMO. The working staff heir might not work as hard for you as they would of if they never heard of the news. Are you an 03'er? If so that makes it worse because you will be the last cohort to go through the USYD Nursing course. They might not really care. (Just guessing though. TOUCHWOOD)

 

[lengstar]

Originally posted by santaslayer
You will still be affected to a certain degree IMO. The working staff heir might not work as hard for you as they would of if they never heard of the news. Are you an 03'er? If so that makes it worse because you will be the last cohort to go through the USYD Nursing course. They might not really care. (Just guessing though. TOUCHWOOD)

thats what i was thinking

yeah i am one of the last undergraduates which means i don't have any freshmans next year to flirt with =(

 

[braindrainedAsh]

My friend Liz also does nursing at USyd, she would be in your cohort lengstar.... so I hope it doesn't suck for you guys.

 

[study budd[Y]]

This issue sure is abit of a bummer. For anyone that WAS thinking about getting into nursing, i would recommend taking a look at the courses offered at Usyd-Health sciences campus.
I take it those who wanted to do nursing where in it for the *joyz* of looking after and helping people, in a sicence related discipline......well, courses like radiationtherapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology even physiotherapy all seem like viable options for those nursing hopefulls.

 

[Minai]

Originally posted by Raiks
From the way UWS is splitting up its campuses course wise (see the UWS thread), and now with USYD getting rid of nursing, it seems that the whole argument over which uni is better will become obsolete because every uni will be specialising in a different course.

Yeah, its basic economic theory at play..
this decision is socially inefficient (less places for nursing - a badly needed profession right now), yet is economically viable

 

[lengstar]

fuck i hate that rationale - because its 'economically viable'
we'll see in 20 years time when there is a health services catastrophy and we'll see how effective the services will be then

 

[neo o]

the whole argument over which uni is better will become obsolete because every uni will be specialising in a different course.

I think that was the intention, there's a quote from the government somwhere that basically says that encouraging uni's to specialise is the entire rationale behind the policy changes.

 

[santaslayer]

Hmmm.so what what the Medicare reform about? It promised more nurses and doctors in future didn't it?

 

[crackerj]

Girls in Usyd nursing are cute....

 

[dark`secrets]

gahh.. this scraping at Usyd stinks~

Originally posted by crackerj
Girls in Usyd nursing are cute....

bah, i know a cute boy doing nursing

 

[Wilmo]

just "a" cute boy Doesnt offer much hope for other girls

 

[lengstar]

she only knows one and thats the one she's going out with

 

[braindrainedAsh]

If every uni specialises, won't it be bad for professions because everyone will be trained at the same place and hence there will be less different thinking about how things are carried out? If that makes any sense.

E.g. if all nurses are trained at UTS, they will all be taught the same way of carrying out the job. The entire workforce will have one way of working and one way of thinking and will that improve patient care if there is only "one way" of doing things? I don't think so...

I hope that makes sense...

 

[lengstar]

also less competition in seeing who can out do the other uni's which means crappier curriculums