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Nursing studies
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For nursing students, writing in a patient's notes can feel daunting. Third-year nursing student Georgina O'Reilly-Foley passes on what she has learned a
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Taking exams can be stressful, but thorough preparation will help ease your nerves and boost your performance on the day, writes Kathy Oxtoby.
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Many nursing students find essay writing a challenge. Here are some tips for effective essays
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As a student you need to practise breaking complicated information down into ‘comprehensible chunks’
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Mandy Day-Calder looks at the benefits and pitfalls of using humour with patients and colleagues
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Using all your senses to 'see' the whole patient is a valuable nursing skill, says Mandy Day-Calder.
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Nursing students need to learn how to deal with multiple problems in the clinical environment.
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Engage students through effective supervision before they become desperate enough to cheat, says Stephen Gowland Mahon.
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Kerry Pace explains how you can use a Twitter account to spark new ideas and discussion
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Student Amy Wixey led a drive to help all nursing students improve their communication with people with learning disabilities
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University lecturers Robin Ion and Richard Craven offer advice on how nursing students can raise concerns
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With hospitals increasingly using electronic systems to record patient information, nursing education is beginning to adapt
Referring to the Nursing and Midwifery Council Code’s second theme – practise effectively; think what effective nursing care means to you and how this has an impact on the essence of quality care.
To remain on the Nursing and Midwifery Council register as a qualified nurse you will have to revalidate every three years.
Last year’s Shape of Caring review highlighted the alarming fact that at least 20% of nursing students are dropping out of their studies.
On graduating from your nursing degree course, one aspect of nursing life you may be worried about is how you will cope with taking responsibility for a group of patients, or even a whole ward.
Imagine being asked to plan, deliver and evaluate care for seven care home residents you have never met; working as a team with strangers, creating resources and activities from nothing, and acting as carer, leader, manager – and even chef.
Caring for patients who have died and their relatives can be humbling, stressful and emotional for even the most experienced nurse.
