Placement found

Hi everyone,

Due to this wonderfully long weekend and the fact that I have found a placement for this course I am finally able to catch up on all the uni work from the past weeks. Hopefully by the end of this week I will have my blog activities up to date and more information on my placement. Currently all I know is that I will be mainly working on a project with another student that involves running a Hepatitis B rapid testing project. My first shift is on the 1st of April and my excitement levels are going through the roof!

Michael

Placement search coming to an end

Hi everyone,

The past week has been crazy as I try to balance work, uni and my placement search. I contacted every possible organisation, clinic and health centre in Brisbane and had an interview with QNADA and QuIHN. I did end up receiving the application and response from DrugArm but their program was quite intense with the majority of work as clinical. My meeting with QNADA went okay. They said that they were only able to offer me a placement if I started my own project. This opportunity would have been amazing, especially for the experience but due to time restraints this was not possible. They did however suggest that they would be able to place me into their various member organisation (organisations that I have applied for but have had difficulties following up) to experience the various areas within the drugs and alcohol sector. I am awaiting a reply from my course coordinator about this proposal. Today I had a meeting with QuIHN whom suggested that I was able to do my placement with them. They are currently running several projects that I could be involved with so if I am unable to pursue a placement with QNADA then QuiHN will be my next choice. I cannot wait to start placement soon and excited for what lies ahead.

Michael

The last year of University has officially started

Hi everyone,

I am still trying to learn how to use this blog. I know how to add new posts and view the comments by other users but that is it. I am sorry if there is a comment function to acknowledge I have seen the messages. I do appreciate all the helpful tips and suggestions people have made and the continual support.

My placement search has started to gain a fair bit of momentum. I have had some good responses to my enquiries to a placement opportunities at various organisations. This process is going to take much longer than I had anticipated. Each organisation I have talked to I have been referred and transferred to various people from different departments and to others with different roles. For one organisation  it took 2 hours of making phone calls to various departments to get into contact with a placement coordinator for an organisation to only find that he was on holidays and there was another people who was doing his cover. Emails that were supposed to be sent out I have not received and trying to follow up all my enquiries have been a little overwhelming. Email is a great tool but it does take quite some time for some  people to respond. Overall I am making process in my placement search and hopefully my perseverance of sending out CV’s and phone calls will pay off. I am considering using a diary to keep track of who I have contacted, who I have received applications for and who I still need to follow up.

Cheers,

Michael