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I'm currently half way through my 3rd year doing a Nursing Diploma but after much thought I've come to the conclusion this is not what I want to do! I've been thinking about this since my second year and I hate the course and I've just realised nursing isn't for me :no:
I have no intrest in it but I am going to complete my course....I qualify in May and I'm not going to give it up after coming this far. Also it is something for me to fall back on!
I always wanted to do a History degree as it's a subject I love! I got an A in my GCSE and started my History A level but ended up leaving 6th form and doing a BTEC in health Studies. I loved the BTEC which made me choose nursing....but nursing has been nothing like I thought and the course it's just shit tbh and this is after doing it at two unis! So it's not just the uni that makes it shit.
I've had a look at entery requirements at a few unis and I'm worried as I only have a BTEC not A levels. Although they are equivalent would they accept them? Would my Nursing Diploma count for anything too?
Also I don't recieve a loan for my diploma just a bursery, would I be entitled to a student loan while I'm studying? I thought I would as I've not recieved on for my Nursing :chin:
Sorry about the long post, but any help will be greatly appreciated
I have no intrest in it but I am going to complete my course....I qualify in May and I'm not going to give it up after coming this far. Also it is something for me to fall back on!
I always wanted to do a History degree as it's a subject I love! I got an A in my GCSE and started my History A level but ended up leaving 6th form and doing a BTEC in health Studies. I loved the BTEC which made me choose nursing....but nursing has been nothing like I thought and the course it's just shit tbh and this is after doing it at two unis! So it's not just the uni that makes it shit.
I've had a look at entery requirements at a few unis and I'm worried as I only have a BTEC not A levels. Although they are equivalent would they accept them? Would my Nursing Diploma count for anything too?
Also I don't recieve a loan for my diploma just a bursery, would I be entitled to a student loan while I'm studying? I thought I would as I've not recieved on for my Nursing :chin:
Sorry about the long post, but any help will be greatly appreciated
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I had a bit of a think about what you should do and I guess you really have to ask yourself what you would do with a history degree and why you want to do one? If you want to become a historian or a writer it might be useful to have otherwise it will be quite a big chunk out of your life for something thats not necessarily going to get you anywhere.
I think you would be quite hard pressed to find any good university which will take you on to do a history degree with your BTEC as history courses are often over subscribed and its not in a relevant subject, so your likely to have to go back and do an access course or some humanities A-Levels.
I absolutely love history and i did it at university but in my day to day working life its of very little use to me aside from teaching me how to research and write essays - which is a skill that i do now use - but you can get that from pretty much any degree.
Which bits did you like about Health Studies - is there any merit in doing a post graduate dipolma which would take less time in something like Health Systems Mangement or somethign like that? There are lots of jobs in health which aren't directly related to nursing but for which your nursing degree could be of use. For example one of the projects we are doing at work is looking at medicines supply chains and allowing cheaper more equitable access to medicines for people in developing countries and one of the project managers has a nursing degree but then specialised in more of the administration side of things.
Its probably worth exploring what you would do with a history degree and talk to people who have done one - usual types of jobs for people i know have been PR and Marketing, banking and finance and or journalisum (though bearing in mind that they all went to top 10 universities). Its also probably worth finding out more about other jobs in health and seeing if any of them interest you.