BNurs Children’s Nursing student Keira talks about her experience of learning about palliative care. … More Learning about palliative care as a Children’s Nursing student
Adult Nursing student Katie runs us through the first year of the course. … More Adult Nursing BNurs: what to expect in Year 1
Keira, a dedicated second year BNurs Children’s Nursing student, recently landed an excellent placement opportunity. Below she shares her positive experience, acknowledging that even amidst the highlights, she hasn’t been immune to a slightly embarrassing moment along the way. … More My Children’s Nursing placement experience on Ward 76
First year BNurs Children’s Nursing student, Kiera, gives us an insight into her very first placement. Read about her experience working alongside specialist community nurses, known as health visitors, who specialise in working with families with young children. … More My experience on a children’s nursing placement
Caitlin came to Manchester to study on the BNurs Children’s Nursing course. Here she gives us an honest insight into the often tough, but extremely rewarding parts of her course. Read about the special moments she witnessed below. … More Why study child nursing?
For BNurs Adult Nursing graduate and lifelong Mancunian Adam Mellor, ensuring the people of Manchester have access to the very best healthcare services has always been his greatest ambition. Here, he talks about studying at Manchester, his job on a busy surgical assessment ward at Stepping Hill Hospital, and what it has been like to … More Making a difference through nursing after my Manchester degree
For mental health nurse and Manchester graduate Hannah Osborne, providing mental health support for her patients during the pandemic has been an inspiring, rewarding and life-changing experience. … More Why I was inspired to study mental health nursing
Yemi Giwa is a third-year Nursing Student who has experienced a lot during her degree so far. The added element of being on placement during a global pandemic certainly wasn’t in the course description but it’s an experience that thousands of student nurses across the country will hopefully benefit from. Even before COVID-19 sent shockwaves … More Ten things I wish I knew before I became a student nurse
The discussion around mental health has certainly got louder in recent years and rightly so when you consider that 1 in 4 people will experience a mental health problem of some kind each year in England. This week, that discussion continued with Suicide Prevention Day occurring on Thursday 10 September. With that in mind, Mental … More The importance of mental health as a student nurse
Adult Nursing graduate David Rothwell was part of the final year nursing cohort who helped to combat COVID-19 during the first wave of the deadly pandemic in the UK. Below, he provides some brilliant insight in to what life was like as a student nurse during those horrendous first few months… I first heard of … More COVID-19: Student nursing through the pandemic
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