NVQ

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Anonymous — Fri, 27 Feb 2009 10:01:51 GMT

Nightshift!!! I can't do that. Maybe a saturday night but thats the only night

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Fiona Leathers — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:10:37 GMT

Remember if you go down the full-time Telford route then you'll be expected to do placement at Galsgow vet school & that includes night shifts & some accaional weekend work.

I had to opt out of this because of childcare issues & they weren't happy about it. Make sure you let them know prior to starting.

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Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:16:35 GMT

9-4 would be fine as the train from Edinburgh goes straight to where i pick my daughter up from after school care. I would maybe have to try and get someone else to drop her off at 5pm club.

I am starting to get quite excited about this! I am in the middle of the telford college Veterinary terminogy course, which is really good. I finish this in June, summer with no studing then college in September

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Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:09:50 GMT

If you are doing Telford and working in practice then it will be block release, which means you will attend 3-4 times throughout the year for periods of 3-4 weeks each block, unless they have changed the way they do it of course, but thats what I done when I was at Telford.

You would finish most days no later than 4pm, and start times are 9am.

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Anonymous — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:02:01 GMT

If all goes to plan the course will start in September at either Barony or Telford college. I think the travel is more of a concern than the coursework. My daughter has clubs four nights a week. I do drive but they all start at 6pm except one that starts at 5pm.

What hours are the college days? I think if i can sort it out in my head and know that everyday won't be rush, rush, rush then I can maybe think about doing it.

Thanks guys for all your imput.

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Fiona Leathers — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:33:24 GMT

I agree with STRVN - we're definately more organised!! Who else could juggle child care, study & work???

Hang on - that theory doean't really work cos if you've not got children, you wouldn't be juggling childcare!!!

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Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:31:37 GMT

Hi I also had kids(2) while training to become a VN, hard but worth it.You just have to be organised and you sound like you are already.To be fair I think people who do have kids are more organised........ no offence to people on here without, it's just that you have to be or it would be a disaster.

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Fiona Leathers — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:51:06 GMT

I went on the full time nursing course when my daughter was 3, and I won't deny it wasn't difficult at times but it is worth every piece of blood, sweat & tears that I poured into it! I found that once I had finished college/placement, got home, sorted child, had tea, wrote up portfolio or notes, then settled down for some relaxation, it was about midnight/1am. I also did 2 other courses at same time as full-time VN course and worked part time at weekends to pay child care. This went on for about 2.5 years - I had to sit exams & leave course early due to money - till I qualified.

I understand its daunting but its definately worth it!

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Anonymous — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:01:51 GMT

Thanks

Its just a bit daunting. I don't want disappoint my manager by not succeeding. I know if i am super organised i will manage.

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Maisy — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 20:38:21 GMT

Congrats on passing your VCA! If its any help I did my training with a couple of women who had young children (one had 3 year old twins!). As someone who doesn't have children, I found that I had to be super organised (which I wasn't then!) to juggle work, study and portfolio. Evenings would usually be reading college notes/testing myself and weekends were used for writting up caselogs.

Obviously how flexible you can be depends upon your home/child commitments but it can be done and I commend any nurse who qualified whilst having young children to look after. Even if you spend an hour or so on an evening after your daughter is in bed will help with either writing up portfolio or doing revision. Set aside a couple of hours over the weekends to dedicate to your training and you probably won't find it to be too much of a hardship.

Personally I found that you do need to organise yourself properly to succeed without too much stress during the two years. Its a difficult, time consuming training period however your boss must have faith in you to do this having recommended it to you so see how much support you will get from your practice too.

Good Luck!