career question for all the nurses...

Wow Janine, I'm impressed. When I did my nursing training I was young and single and had no respect for the juggling the Mums on our course did. I've just done a one year post-grad cert with two children, working and pregnant and now look back with awe at how they survived that study.

And yayyy Kellz for having enough hours. Annual practice certs are a PITA!

OMG Janine! YOU ARE THE MAN...OR WOMAN!!! lol thats awsome reading you experience bcos its a huge inspiration to those of us who are trying to get it sorted

GOOD LUCK KELLZ!

Kelz at least you could try and set some of your shifts so that they fall on the days she goes to daycare and maybe have hubby drop her off, or see if she can start earlier if it's morning shift etc, or see if MIL can pick her up from daycare which would take care of it a bit. It's good with self-rostering/requests you should be able to fit it in wel with family and toddler life, he he. HUGE HUGE good luck with your application.

I'm now having to look at hours etc, and waiting for mikes new schedule for next semester so that i can start requesting shifts to fit in with his classes for when Paris starts school. I have *YAY* had annual leave approved so that i have the 1st 3 weeks off when Paris starts school. I am trying to get away without after-school care for at least the first year if i can help it... preferrably would like to not do it at all. I see myself rostering on for a few more night shifts so i can sleep during the day while she's at school and still be there in the mornings to drop her off, the afternoons to pick her up, and be there for dinner etc. In essence alot the mums that do that find their kids don't actually realise when they've worked and when they haven't cos they never see them leave and they're mostly home before the kids wake in the mornings.

And guys... thankies for you words... but seriously, it just shows if you're as stubborn and pig-headed as me, you can find a way to do what you want to do. At the time i just did it, it was just life. I now look back and go "WTF?! Was i crazy?!"

It was funny as when i graduated Paris had a whole heap of people coming up and talking to her (my old lecturers) cos they'd watched her grow up. When she was 11 months old and i first started back, mike had to be in at work by 8am each morning (across the road from UCOl which was good) so I'd get her up at the last minute, dress her, and i'd pack a little bowl with a lid with her cereal or weet-bix in it, we'd get there, go up to the nursing lounge by the nusing lecturers offices, and i'd use the student kitchen to make her brekkie, we'd sit on their comfy couches and she'd have her brekkie and her bottle and play with a couple of wee toys i took until close to 9am which was when she booked in to daycare. I'd take her over and go to class. She had so many people that would stop and talk to her each morning, they watched her learning to walk and talk and i continued that up till i had ayja. There were still some days that i took them both up there if the timetalbe was a bit mucky, so they saw the whole process. For them to then see her all grown up, nearly 4 years old at my graduation, they thought it was really neat. It's funny the things that life brings you.. It was neat having so many people take an interest in what she was doing each morning and stop to play with her or talk to her on their way into the office.

Is all good though. It's nice to encourage others be as nuts as me.

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Susieq there are a few papers you can do through Massey but you can't do the whole degree extramural as you have to be there for the lab papers.

I know a few of the papers - let me know I can get them to you.

Sweet I will do it later tonight or tomrrow morning - i'm just about to go out to band.

Thank you a lot for all the information and all the links there but can someone here please recommend me some reliable resources where I can buy resume for myself?