Adult Nurse

I have been a registered nurse for almost 8 years now. I began my training at 18, qualified at 21 and have never looked back. I think I always new this was what I wanted to do, my family tell me that I told everyone I wanted to be a nurse when I got my first dressing up outfit at about 5 years old. The academic requirements for the advanced diploma which I did were at least 5 GCSE's at C or above, and to be 17.5 years or older at the time you start studying. If you follow the link I will paste underneath this site can give people wanting to be a nurse some good information on all the options available to you. ...  Read the complete review

Nursing a vocation not a career!!!! How to Get involved --------------------------------- I undertook my nurse training after many years of soul searching and wondering what my actual purpose for being on this earth actually was. A bit of a wild one in my younger days i actually went into this profession as a mature student. By then i felt that i actually had a bit of life experience to take with me and i am glad that i had. Living in Scotland i had to apply via the scottish system of undergraduate nurses. I believe that the english system is slightly different although as i am unsure of what that is i am unable to comment. Hence i filled out my ...  Read the complete review

What can I say about adult nursing? It is a career that I have chosen and a profession of which I am proud. To the rest of the world out there, nurses are people who make beds, clean patients and make doctors cups of tea. In by gone years, this was well the case, however, in these modern days of the NHS, nurses are getting involved in a lot more procedures than ever. We are a highly skilled profession and are somewhat under rated by the general public although most of us work very hard because we do genuinely care. Sadly, yes, there are nurses out there who let the side down but in my personal belief I believe this is because they have lost the passion for ...  Read the complete review

Currently I am a third year Adult branch Student Nurse, due to qualify in March 2009. I have recently gone back in June of this year following 6 months maternity leave to have my second child. I got into nursing when i was 18 and took up a job in a nursing home. Prior to this i worked in telesales and really didnt feel challenged or fulfilled. I loved my job as a care assistant and never woke up dreading to go to work. After 12 months or so, although i loved my job i felt i needed more so i applied off to universities through NMAS to do my Nurse training. I got in to my preferred university and here i am 3 years later almost at the end! I have ...  Read the complete review

I wanted to become a nurse all my life and did my training 14 years ago. I went into the profession thinking that nurses were all 'angels' really caring and dedicated and I wanted to work with those people, what a shock I got when I did it!!! During my training I found that these 'angels' were horrid towards student nurses, in all fairness this was because we were all overworked, underpaid and understaffed and the stress of working in those conditions gets to you after a while. I have vivid memories of patients being left in soiled beds because we didn;t have enough staff to look after everybody and there just wasn't enough time to keep on top of ...  Read the complete review