The 18th December will be two years since I joined the NMC register and got my pin. Two years since I qualified and I haven’t learnt anything clinical in that time at all. November 2020 – December 2020Discharge Lounge – Here due to my NQN role not existing due to Covid. Few patients due to…
Tag: nursing
I’m really struggling right now
I haven’t had the best of times these past few years since qualifying as a nurse December 2020. I was redeployed twice within the first month and subsequently moved on to work in a nursing home for a year. I left there to going work at a hospice and that’s where I hit rock bottom….
Life update – nursing
So what has been happening since the last update Job So I left uni with a job on a private unit with the local NHS hospital. This unit had been closed since January 2020 and wasn’t open, at least as a private unit, by the time I was due to start. Due to this, I…
Degree update
The mad rush of essays and exams have started. Engaging Service Improvement poster presentation: 16th October 2019Engaging Service Improvement essay: 21st October 2019Evidence Based Practice project plan: 4th November 2019Evidence Based Practice lit review: 4th November 2019Evidence Based Practice exam: 7th November 2019Long Term Conditions exam: 14th November 2019 Drugs exam: 14th November 2019 I…
My time at uni so far….
I have been at uni for 4 months now so feel it’s about time for an update. Our first week there for all induction, info on course + modules + tutors etc, we got down to business the second week. We are only there Monday – Thursday so I have been able to keep my…
I got into uni!
After weeks of wondering and emails to uni, I finally today got the news I was waiting for…I got my uni confirmation that I will be going to uni in Feb 2018 to do nurse training!!!! Needing to go out to celebrate at some point 😉
Update on studies
Results were released last Tuesday, there were not good. I knew I had failed K311 as I didn’t get the required 40% for the OCAS. The result for SDK228 was/is pending, I got through today however the result of the investigation for plagarism! Basically everything they flagged up has been ignored so very little is…
Which uni to go to?
It has transpired that there will no longer be any salaried secondment places from September 2017. Due to this I now have no intention of waiting for a place from Surrey Uni. I now only have Southampton and The Open Uni. Southampton is full time over 3 years & The Open Uni is part time…
The worst interview ever and other things!!!
So I had my 2nd nursing interview on 19th April and it didn’t go well at all! My time was 12:30 but I didn’t get called in till 12:45/50 and I was out by 13:20. I um-ed & ah-ed too much, I made no sense and really didn’t answer the question well. I won’t be…
The nurse training interview
I am looking to start my nurse training within the next two years. Yesterday I had my day one interview for the Open Uni, a 4.5 year online nurse degree. I want to get the training through my trust as it looks like the only viable option finance wise. Day one was to cut people…
