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

I started my training in 1984 and I have seen a lot of changes in the last twenty odd years, some good some bad. The training for a start. In my day you did 13 weeks in school then were let loose on the wards. Students were counted in the numbers and you really were thrown in. In some ways this was a good thing after training for 3 years you had loads of hands on experience, however it very much depended on the ward staff and the time they had how much theory you learned. Things seem to have reversed somewhat, you can now have students qualifying who are academically brilliant but fairly useless practically. The NHS itself has changed a huge ...  Read the complete review

This opinion is designed to assist anybody who is considering a career in nursing and doing their nursing training. I began my training in March 2000 and am now in my final year, due to qualify in 8 months. To be quite honest I have my up days and my down days. During my up days I wonder how I could ever do any other job than the one I have chosen. On my down days I wonder what on earth possessed me to start my training in the first place. Often I find the down days are more frequent when I am engaged in a block of study and am not on the wards, which is where I find my greatest reward. When I began my diploma the set out was different to how it is ...  Read the complete review