Hi Everyone!!

So think I should introduce myself (and apologise in advance as this is my first time blogging, so this might seem a bit mismatched!). I’m Sam and I’m in my final year studying Child Nursing at City. I’m one of the student representatives for my cohort, and I’m Captain of the Women’s hockey team at uni!

My plan is to give you all updates throughout the year about my time at City, and balancing my extra-curricular commitments and having time to hang out with my fiends. Nursing is a a really great course and I love it, but it can be difficult when on placement to manage course deadlines and social activities due to those 12 hour shifts being pretty demanding!!

When applying to uni, it was a pretty last minute decision, I had come home from a few months away and decided in mid December (UCAS deadline being January) that I definitely wanted to pursue a career in nursing…and to do that I had to come to uni!!! Luckily, my godmother is a star,  I went to stay with her for 3 days and bossed out my entire application, fast forward 3 years and here I am having finished 8 weeks of placement, and starting to write my dissertation!

I chose to do Child Nursing as I have always wanted to work in the medical field, and the caring aspect of nursing is something I really enjoy. I also love biology, and I think that the biology of illness and how it affects each person is really interesting. Nursing at City is very interactive, with simulated practice to work on learning clinical skills, lectures, seminars and placement. Whilst placement seems daunting in first year, by the time it comes for you to go out to hospitals, you feel ready and able to put what you have learnt in to practice.

This hasn’t really had a very clear theme, but I’m hoping to post again in a few days about the first two years of the course, and how I found the workload.

Ciao for now!!