Blogging isn’t the easiest thing to do I have learnt that the hard way, nevertheless, I love doing it. My second year in nursing has brought on a lot of varied emotions, which I really didn’t expect. I am now on my ‘final’ placement for this year and I can only pray that everything goes […]
I’ve been missing for the longest time, I know! I’ve just been so overwhelmed with how busy this nursing course keeps me. Well, I made it through to the second year and oh boy, what can I say? Three months into year two and I’m still not quite used to it. Okay, let me be […]
I was previously on an acute mental health psychriatric ward. It was a 16 bed inpatient ward which caters to a variety of mental disorders, the most common being schizophrenia. Around 99% of patients on the ward have been sectioned either under section 2 or section 3 of the mental health act 1983. Here is a […]
Nursing. Why do we do it, its definitely not for the money. Nor is it for the long durations of annual we receive haha ( I wish)… It’s simply to provide a high standard of care to people who need the help. I expected to be blogging almost every day whilst I was on placement […]
Second placement – first day. I arrived to the hospital at 645 am after the dull journey on London’s 5* tube service. I was tired, my brain felt dry- how was I going to absorb the information needed for today. I was welcomed onto the cardiology ward by a pale skinned zombie like nurse who […]
As you all know this blog has been slightly delayed, so now I will update you about my thoughts about my first clinical placement. I started my placement on a busy surgical ward two months after starting university, I guess they wanted to throw us in head first. It was an experience I will never […]
I have started this blog almost half way through my first year at University – not the best idea. This happened because I was so overwhelmed with everything that was happening blogging came at the very end of my list of ‘things to do’, but finally I have started and I thought I’d share my […]
Care & Compassion 