Adult Nurse Reviews

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 ...  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. ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

I am writing this opinion for any of you reading this who are considering a career in nursing. I started my nurse education (they don't call it training anymore, although I had a few lecturers who resembled the late Barbara Woodhouse), in 1993, as green as the proverbial grass, and as keen as a jar of colmans dijonnaise. I ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

I am currently doing my adult nursing diploma at Oxford Brooks Uni. It lasts 3 years full time and I am enjoying it through and through. I have to say some opinions of what nursing about gets my goat it is not just about changing beds and washing people. However I do find this an excellent way of getting to know the individuals within our care.How ...  Read the complete review

I qualified as a nurse in 1983, at this time I had the opportunity to work in Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, in any department that I wished. I remember the senior nursing officers face when I stated that I wished to work with the elderly. (Geriatrics is no longer a politically correct term) My friends all thought I was mad, however I have ...  Read the complete review

I promise to be positive, I promise to be positive, I promise to be..... Ok I'll do my best, a kind of warts and all look at being a nurse. I qualified far too long ago just before the Nursing profession decided it really needed to go academic, this gave way to University based nurse training with a RN ( Registered Nurse) ...  Read the complete review