Educational Pathway of Dream Career

This presentation discusses the educational pathway for pursuing a dream career in nursing and the backup career plan of becoming an air hostage nurse. It provides information on the required courses and qualifications for each career path.

Educational Pathway
of Dream careerMy dream career
Back-up career
plan
Back-up plan
educational pathway
My
career
paths

My dream career
 My dream career is nursing
 Nurses care for individuals from different ethnic backgrounds,
sexual orientations, religions and ages (Masters, 2018).
 Nurses save lives of people.
 They advocate for health and well-being of everyone
 Offer emotional support to individuals
 Nursing is a career with integrity (Lu, H., Zhao, & While, 2019).

Educational Pathway of Dream
career
 I will start by registering for nursing foundation studies program
at Flinders University so as to secure a chance for a degree
program.
 Bachelor degree in nursing at the Australian Catholic University
at Ballarat. 3 years full-time student
 2 year registered nurse
 Expected learning units include anatomy, physiology,
psychology, nutrition, chemistry (Baldwin, Bentley, Langtree, &
Mills, 2014).
 Microbiology, chemistry and behavioral sciences are also units
expected to be learnt.

Back-up career plan
 I would like to be an air hostage nurse if I do not pursue nursing.
 Advanced Flight Nurse practice at the University of Queensland
located in St. Lucia for 1-2 years
 This is to enable me provide and high standard care to air
travelers
 Provide and assist with emergency medical care to air travelers
 Transferring patients from aircrafts to receiving medical facilities
(Hatchett, 2013).
 Securing patients before flights take off.

Educational requirements and
units
 Nursing foundation studies program
High distinction of 7 GPA and a credit score of650 and above
The nursing theories associated with health, illness and nursing care experience.
 Bachelor degree in nursing
GPA of 5.85, 360 credit points of 24 units on completion of Bachelor degree in
nursing or an equivalent of 6 units of 20 points on the award of bachelor honors.
Conducting research in nursing
 Advanced Flight Nurse practice
Achieve at least 12 credit scores and earn at least 50% in all the units
Some of the required units are physical laws, conditions and injuries of special
interest for air transport, specific physiological and pathophysiological changes
(Hatchett, 2013).

References
Baldwin, A., Bentley, K., Langtree, T., & Mills, J. (2014). Achieving
graduate outcomes in undergraduate nursing education: following
the Yellow Brick Road. Nurse education in practice, 14(1), 9-11.
Hatchett, R. (Ed.). (2013). Nurse-led clinics: Practical issues. Routledge.
Lu, H., Zhao, Y., & While, A. (2019). Job satisfaction among hospital
nurses: a literature review. International journal of nursing studies.
Masters, K. (2018). Role development in professional nursing practice.
Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Rafferty, A. M., Xyrichis, A., & Caldwell, C. (2015). Post-graduate
education and career pathways in nursing: a policy brief. National
Nursing research Unit, KingГs College London.