Students

Advice and development

How to challenge poor practice – 7 tips for nursing students

Use our tips to establish support, build your confidence and ensure you are heard

Student wellbeing

Watch: advice for students on supporting your health and well-being

Why common stress tips may not be helpful, and strategies to help you look after yourself

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Free careers fair for nursing students and newly registered nurses: book now

Online event is your chance to meet employers, join seminars, and even get a job interview

Taking a patient history: a guide for nursing students

How to build your experience and confidence, plus tips on raising difficult questions

Safeguarding demystified: a beginner’s guide

It’s an issue fundamental to nursing care, but do you know what’s expected of you?

Abby Martin

Please don’t call me ‘the student’

Nursing students have names – and an expectation to be part of the healthcare team too

Reflective practice

Mental health: challenging your own cultural taboos and unconscious bias

Supporting students to challenge their own beliefs about mental ill health

Nursing studies

Pressure ulcer screening: nurses check the status of skin on the patient’s heel using a mirror

Pressure ulcers: your overview of how these wounds present and who is most at risk 

What you can do to help prevent tissue damage, and to care for patients if ulcers develop

Compassionate dementia care: a smiling nurse places her hand on the shoulder of an older person, who is sitting in a wheelchair

Dementia care: tips for students on managing distress and triggers

Advice on how to communicate clearly, identify triggers and create a calm environment

Time management skills for nursing students: illustration of a nursing student and a lecturer, surrounded by giant images of a clock, a coursework folder, a calendar and an hourglass timer

How to develop your time management skills: tips for nursing students 

Five strategies for better time management, including self-care and ‘wiggle room’

Learning leadership as a nursing student: chess pawn signifying a student casts shadow that is a more powerful piece, showing students can start being leaders

How can I develop my leadership skills and personal leadership style?

Advice from our panel of nursing students, newly registered nurses and nursing lecturers

Community nursing as a newly registered nurse: a young nurse waves to a community nursing colleague as she drives away in a car

Interested in community nursing? How to start as a newly registered nurse

Dedicated career pathway programmes help students to explore their options

Honest communication with patients: a nurse in scrubs stands with her back to the camera, holding one hand behind her back with her fingers crossed, suggesting not telling the truth

Is it ever okay to lie to protect a patient? Advice for nursing students

Our panel on whether dishonesty is ever acceptable in patient communication

Clinical placement

Record keeping in nursing: a nursing student leans on a table writing in a patient’s notes as the patient lies in a hospital ward bed behind her

Patient notes: record-keeping dos and don’ts for students

Tips to help you overcome concerns and improve your record-keeping

When students and practice assessor clash, this important relationship can sour

I don’t get on with my practice assessor – what can I do?

Take our tips on building a good relationship and not allowing tensions to fester

Picture shows a nursing student in uniform sipping from their own refillable water bottle during a shift

Dehydrated? How to ensure you drink enough fluids on placement

Nerves or uncertainty may make you forget your fluids. Here’s how to prioritise hydration

Illustration of self-rostering in nursing shows three staff working together with a calendar to plan their rota

Self-rostering on clinical placement: can I have a say on when I’m on shift?

A predictable schedule enables you to commit to paid work and keep your home life on track

A nursing student stands with a ward nurse as they consult notes together

You’re about to start a clinical placement? Here are 7 things you need to know

Find out how to achieve your learning goals while maintaining a work-life balance

Nursing student Andrew Poole sits at a table in a community hall talking to a parish nursing client while on clinical placement

Community placement: what does working with parish nurses involve?

Parish nursing teams can offer scope to develop communication and health promotion skills

Self-care

A well-being app for your nursing course: ShinyMind for students

New version of the popular app will focus on the challenges of nursing studies

Newly qualified nurses

Picture shows a scene from the film One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest. A nurse is producing podcasts that aim to dispel myths about mental illness, remove stigma and give patients a voice.

Nurse’s podcasts tell true story of life on mental health wards

Podcasts aim to dispel myths about mental illness, remove stigma and give patients a voice

 Nursing is fast-paced in the emergency department

Mental health and adult nursing, plus the pace of emergency care – this role has it all

A dual-registration newly qualified nurse reflects on what she has learned in her first year

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Mental health nursing: ‘The accumulation of marginal gains’

Results in mental health care can be slow but the rewards are vast, especially for nurses with the right qualities, says Ian Hulatt.

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