University of Sydney (USYD)

The University offers a good curriculum with plenty of options. There are also job placement programs as part of the coursework and extracurricular activities. Career coach service is great.

why are my reviews not posted?????????????

I am not sure how the recruitment and hiring process is for the teaching staff in the nursing school, but from my experience and having previously studied here in the arts faculty, the nursing school is terrible like way below standard.
I am doing my first year graduate entry master units (5081, 5042, 5082, 5002) and I can definitely say the teaching standard and delivery is the worst I have ever encountered. Not only are they behind and lazy with online lectures (by just posting old ones), just slamming just with readings and not guiding properly with what information is needed to know and remember for exams.
I only chose here because they claimed to be the best, but I beg to differ and based on reviews and research, which I should of done as it states very differently.
Aside the fact there are many lecturers, tutors and labs staff who are literally just reading of the screen what they wrote or copied and paste more like it, the fact is that is not teaching and educating in a proper manner. Now what is worse is what they write is completely off or contradictory of what they are saying, making things more confused. This is apparent for the lecturer Ron Castelino where he dose not know how to concisely and effectively explain theories or medication/drugs because the topics just go in circles and you have to literally decipher them like a code because its presented in such a shamble and mess you need to pick out what he is saying as nothing is making sense. It is like he is trying to trick you and ultimately fail you. Nevertheless, in the event when things do make sense (which is rare and never because I have to rely just on the slides as the audio is a fail always), he then brings in information that he then says don't need to know just throwing you of mentally and emotionally as if he is trying to mess with your psyche and that not helpful when have other subjects that are also equally hard and confusing and juggling that other thing s in life. He needs to understand the KISS (keep is simple stupid) analogy when trying to express his information because it is done extremely poorly at the moment. I wish I am able to attach screen shots and video small clips to show you as evidence what I mean, but am more than happy to if you want me to as there is a lot in regards to him and some other lecturers who are doing a bad job also. It is also very difficult to understand what he is saying as he mumbled a lot and has an accent making it difficult to know what he he actually saying. Anther example is when he would begin talking about a topi, like drug medications for diabetes he would state what it is then talk about all these other irrelevant information before coming back to it and by then (as i hand write notes) it makes this so confusing and difficult to edit, as if he is purposely doing this to make it hard and just mess with you. He dose know that as a health profession the compilation of stress and anxiety that affect the mental state of students can drive then crazy and make then depress or suicidal, so he really needs to learn to lecture properly or get fired asap! He may like talking down to his patients who he might treat, but he should not talk down to students.

I need to rant about the lecturer Ron Castelino for Nurs5042.

There are many things wrong and incompetent about the way he teaches, which I must say is extremely shocking for Usyd.

Firstly, the way he lectures comes of a lot in a very condescending way as if he is looking down on all us students. Example being is he would ask a question on a drug or affect it has on the body/disease (mind you this is a first year introductory unit) and then crickets (well some people do have done science or health science degrees would know most likely) but what gets me is the answer he gives is like so intense like is is smashing us students with all this information he knows and we don't, and majority of the time how he responds is not relevant to a first year nursing student. Clearly trying to overcompensate for something.Keep it to the points and what is relevant for us student to know according to the unit outlines. 

Secondly, the lecture slides is a massive issue. So it is either he is reading every single word on it making the lecture even more boring then it normally is (will explain later) because there is no effort seen that is put in (might as well just post slides and not here any audio since there is no difference) or he will have something that completely has other information, or even worse some aspects of the example he talks about are not even on a slide making it so confusing and infuriating.

Thirdly, the tone and presentation of himself lecturing is in a monotonic voice and just dose not seem interested, so it just dose not feel very engaging or enthusiastic making the content already even more harder to learn. In addition, he dose have an accent and it also contributes to making it very difficult to understand along with these other issues I have mentioned so far. The lecture I have to describe as if your going to a rodeo, it just goes round and round. For example when learning about diabetes and dementia recently where he would lump topics or drugs or conditions together then move onto another topic, but then go back to the previous one making it so confusing to focus and understand with this constant flip flop not finishing an area fully before move on makes it hard to prepare for exams as your scared you might have missed something as he is not adequate with giving information via lecturing.

Can Usyd please hire better lecturers for pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics please instead of the appalling and really bad lecturer. I am sure they are able to find others instead of him that would make learning these tough dense content more exciting because what and how it is being taught to us extremely poor quality.

I need to rant about the lecturer Ron Castelino for Nurs5042.

There are many things wrong and incompetent about the way he teaches, which I must say is extremely shocking for Usyd.

Firstly, the way he lectures comes of a lot in a very condescending way as if he is looking down on all us students. Example being is he would ask a question on a drug or affect it has on the body/disease (mind you this is a first year introductory unit) and then crickets (well some people do have done science or health science degrees would know most likely) but what gets me is the answer he gives is like so intense like is is smashing us students with all this information he knows and we don't, and majority of the time how he responds is not relevant to a first year nursing student. Clearly trying to overcompensate for something.

Secondly, the lecture slides is a massive issue. So it is either he is reading every single word on it making the lecture even more boring then it normally is (will explain later) or he will have something that completely has other information, or even worse some aspects of the example he talks about are not even on a slide making it so confusing and infuriating.

Thirdly, the tone and presentation of himself lecturing is in a monotonic voice and just dose not seem interested, so it just dose not feel very engaging or enthusiastic making the content already even more harder to learn. In addition, he dose have an accent and it also contributes to making it very difficult to understand along with these other issues I have mentioned so far. The lecture I have to describe as if your going to a rodeo, it just goes round and round. For example when learning about diabetes and dementia recently where he would lump topics or drugs or conditions together then move onto another topic, but then go back to the previous one making it so confusing to focus and understand with this constant flip flop not finishing an area fully before move on makes it hard to prepare for exams as your scared you might have missed something as he is not adequate with giving information via lecturing.

Can Usyd please hire better lecturers for pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics please instead of the appalling and really bad lecturer. I am sure they are able to find others instead of him that would make learning these tough dense content more exciting because what and how it is being taught to us extremely poor quality.