Having opted to be a hairdresser and then swimming pool manager, Tammy Lenon is now pursuing a nursing qualification. or signup to continue reading The 51-year-old has nearly completed a diploma in enrolled nursing at Albury's TAFE campus but on Wednesday, July 3, was given an insight into how she could become a "Before I spoke to them today I really wasn't interested but after speaking to them and the way they put it across I will consider it now," Mrs Lenon said. Those words will please Charles Sturt's head of the school of nursing, paramedicine and healthcare sciences Professor Kerryn Butler-Henderson.
"We want to show them the pathway from enrolled to registered nursing and demystify what it's like to study at university," Professor Butler-Henderson said. "Some of them see it as an unachievable step and we show them our equipment with simulators and what support structures we've got in place." That last point impressed Mrs Lenon who said she felt comfortable with the consideration that would be given to her circumstances as a mature-aged student.
She has travelled from her home at Collingullie, near Wagga, once or twice a week for her diploma and envisages working at a hospital after graduating. Charles Sturt University is encouraging students who have completed their diploma to enter its bachelor of nursing at Thurgoona as second-year undergraduates and then qualify as registered nurses. Key differences between enrolled and registered nurses are that the latter can provi.
