Today I had the huge pleasure of being interviewed by retired nurse and radio host John Grahme on the NHS Grampian Hospital Radio show; The Slice. This was a huge honour. John invited me to talk to him about winning RCN Student Nurse of the year. This was a great honour. Listen by clicking below [...]
This is the story of a Neurodivergent Student Nurse. Wow I can’t believe how quick 3 years flew by. I have been a Registered nurse for 11 months now-almost a year!! Woow! This means it's has been a year since I finished my Student nurse Journey. I started taking time to write this reflective piece [...]
Hello hello! I should have written this blog at the end of August when I finished, but it’s been mad busy since I finished my very last placement! I am 3 months into being a newly registered nurse and soon to graduate but wanted to share the experience of my final placement. It was an [...]
Hello lovely people 😃🫶🏻 Happy International Nurses day! What a fantastic celebratory day this is! 🤓🌟 I love being a student nurse! Being a nurse in general is awesome, but I do love being a neurodivergent student nurse. However we are often underestimated in our abilities and what we can bring! I am very open [...]
Hello! This was a very interesting module! It is hard to believe this is my very last nursing module! In this module we covered all things adult nursing. This included adult complexities such as: stroke, diabetes, sepsis, chronic kidney disease, dementia, breast cancer, epilepsy oxygen therapy, tracheostomy care, antimicrobial stewardship and DNACP and anticipatory care [...]
Hello! It has been a while! So this placement took place last year... (winter to be specific) so as you can imagine this was a very busy time to have a placement in A and E especially as a result of strikes and strains on the ambulance crew at the time. I enjoyed what learning [...]
Hello hello! Happy New Year to you all! 2023 wow! To think my blog is 5 year old this month! Thank you for still reading my posts! 2022 was a toughy because I lost my beloved Star and Carina quite close together 🐾 and with this they took with them a little- a lot part [...]
Hello! I can't believe I am writing about my experience of Science 3 already! This nursing journey is flying in! We started our science module in September and have just completed our exam this week so it was a 7 week module in total. I am proud of my application to this module as it [...]
Hello folks! The news reported yesterday that there has been a reduction in the number of applications made for nursing courses across Scottish Universities this year-700 according to First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon. Eileen McKenna: Associate Director RCN Scotland explained on STV news that the RCN have lobbied for a number of years to get the [...]
Hello hello! My last 5 weeks of second year have been filled with Alternative Practice Placement programme. This program comprised of lots of opportunity to do self learning and some group work both online and on campus so it had a blended learning approach. Week 1 involved completing the practice supervisory NES units via Turas [...]
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