My Ambitions
Now, seeing as I’m starting at basically the bottom of the rung on the health care system, at least in Australia, and I’m still young (I’ve only really just turned 20), I have a long time ahead of me to continue my education.
Currently, at the end of this year, I’ll be an endorsed enrolled nurse, which can do a lot of stuff with indirect/direct supervision from an RN, which is great. But…
I want more.
As such, I’ll be (hopefully, fingers crossed) doing my Bachelor of Nursing next year, which, thanks to my EEN training, will become a two year course, rather than three years. After that, I aim to gain some obstetric, gyne and peds experience, and do the CRNE (Canadian Registered Nurse Examination), and start practising in Canada.
After that, I’ve got a few more choices on what I may want to do.
a) After I get a few years critical care experience, I plan on applying to a CRNA (Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist) school, do my CRNA training, and then become a CRNA in a large, central hospital which has lots of traumas and other interesting challenges.
b) Again, more critical care experience, but instead of CRNA school, completing a flight nursing course, and becoming a flight nurse. I don’t know, something about the enhanced scope, the rapid turnaround, and the sheer acuity seems to be calling towards me.
c) Complete as many post-graduate qualifications as I can, and work in a large trauma center.
Now, I’m sure these will all evolve other the years, and they’re rather lofty (speaking as someone who’s never actually moved out of his home town, a move to a whole different country, let alone hemisphere, is a big thing), but the state of advanced practise nursing in Australia leaves so much to be desired that I feel staying in Australia would leave me… wanting, so to speak. I want more scope.
On the other hand, I could try GAMSAT after I do my RN’s and apply to Med School…
September 5th, 2007 at 8:22 pm
My advice - give yourself some time, and some experiences. Things will happen to you along the way that will mold and shape you and definitely point you in the direction that you are meant to go. Happy trails!
September 5th, 2007 at 8:30 pm
That’s certainly good advice, and I’m almost certain that these will evolve over the next three years, let alone five, ten, twenty, but at least I have some semblance of an idea of where I might want to end up one day.
You also mark the first established blogger commenting on my site, thank you for your input.
I’m a big fan of your blog, it’s very inspirational.
Thank you!