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How to Make It As A Student Nurse

  • 1st Edition - April 21, 2023
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Claire Carmichael, Anne Marie Dodson
  • Language: English

There is very little out there as a ‘how to’ guide from start to finish in nursing – from applying to university to completing assignments, exams, placements, to qualifying and ap… Read more

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There is very little out there as a ‘how to’ guide from start to finish in nursing – from applying to university to completing assignments, exams, placements, to qualifying and applying for your first job and surviving as a newly qualified nurse. How to Make It as a Student Nurse has all the things that student nurses really want, and need to know.

Key features

  • How to apply to university, how to write personal statements, how to complete a university interview and what to do in your first weeks of university
  • How to write assignments, revise for exams and learning A–E assessments and drug calculations
  • All information is in layman’s terms and basic for everyone to understand
  • Real-life stories/case studies and insights to nursing
  • What’s expected of you on nursing placements from 1st year to 3rd year and caring for specific groups of patients
  • Advice and tips on coping with failures, mental health as a student/nurse
  • Advice on different nursing roles, your first nurse job and how to apply for your NMC PIN, including band-5 interviews and transition process from student to nurse

Table of contents

1. Introductions

2. Applying to University: Personal Statement and Bagging that Interview

3. What to Do in Your First Few Weeks of University

4. Assignment Help

5. Poster Presentations! ‘HELP!’

6. Level 4 to 7 Marking Criteria and Critically Analysing

7. Exam Preparation and Revision Tips

8. All You Need to Know about Placements: First Year to Management with a Bonus Page of A to E Assessments and Tips for Areas of Placements

9. Surviving Your First Night Shift

10. Applying for Your First Newly Qualified Nurse Post and How to Decide Where to Work

11. CV Writing

12. Transition from Student to Newly Qualified Nurse (NQN)

13. Nursing Interviews

14. Maths/Drug Calculations Made Easy

15. Leadership in Nursing

16. Mental Health/Coping with Failures

17. Having Autism and Epilepsy – A Case Study from Sez Francis

18. Imposter Syndrome

19. LGBTQIA in Healthcare

20. Social Media in Nursing

21. Money-Saving Tips

22. Coping through a Pandemic

23. Ethnic Minority Groups in Healthcare

24. End

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: April 21, 2023
  • Language: English

About the authors

CC

Claire Carmichael

Affiliations and expertise
General Practice Nurse

AD

Anne Marie Dodson

Affiliations and expertise
Senior lecturer, Birmingham City University, Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences. Westbourne Rd, Birmingham, UK