Things haven’t gone to plan for my extended placement! 7th April I got the ‘thank you’ email for joining the trust for the extended placement, then a followup email on 9th April with a start date of 16th April for online induction and either 20th or 27th April to start on the wards. I had…
Category: uni
Temporary register update
So things are definitely moving fast. We got sent a form from university to fill out with our preferred placement areas and then we had a group online chat with our uni tutor on Monday. Tuesday I received an email from my local trust asking me to fill out a couple of forms which I…
NMC temporary register
I am a 3rd year nursing student. Since my last post, I have been pulled from my placement so I am ploughing into my assignments Due to COVID-19, how we complete our degree is changing, it looks like we will go out to practice much sooner and join a temp register.This temp register is open…
This time next month
Since I last posted about starting to apply for NQN posts, I have been talking to a few people at different trusts and heard back from applications. 29th Feb 2020 WSHT my local trust as a recruitment day at both Worthing & St Richards (Chichester). I have been in contact with someone at St Richards…
3rd year placements
I’m not one to just wait around, too many times things haven’t been done when they should and delays have happened. Due to this since December 2019 I have been checking our uni cohort placement spreadsheet to see if it was updated. 13th January, it finally looked like things were happening. There was an extra…
Year 3 timetable
So we have had our timetable published for a few weeks now and I forgot to blog about it. There was no announcement about it, I just happen to continuously check on all things uni (placement post coming soon) and I think I stumbled onto it at the same time as the uni for publishing/working…
End of 2nd year
So I have officially finished 2nd year of my nursing degree. Two weeks ago I got my final set of grades. A pass on drugs exam (only pass/fail), Long Term Conditions exam 60%, Evidence exam 66%, Evidence Lit review 57%, Evidence Project plan 88%, OSCE pass (only pass/fail). The nursing department appears to use all…
What is going on…
So how are my grades looking so far? Not good actually. The group presentation came back as 52 and all but one person in our group thought that was a crap grade. My acute care grade came back as 40!! That same person above went and failed! I’m barely going to get a 2:2 this…
Assignments
This post was originally going to be about just the one unit and how I’ve finally done with the essay but I can now happily announce that I have completed ALL my assignments for ALL units!!! Engaging with Service Improvement – 10% similarityEvidence Based Project Plan – 2% similarityEvidence Based Lit Review – 8% similarity…
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…
