Trainee nursing associate Review

Delivering holistic care to patients in the end stages of life, providing palliative care within a hospital environment. Personal care, helping with meals, medications, daily tasks and helping other professionals with the patients care. Helping relatives with the end of life pathway and providing care within the community with our McMillan nurses.

I can assist with catheterisation, fetch blood from the blood bank, help take samples which the doctors may need, I can do bladder scans and help with hygiene needs, I can assist the nurses with administering medications, I have developed my communication skills and also my computer skills as I have learned new programs

I do mostly enjoy my program, I find it difficult to learn over a computer on teams, I would much prefer face to face lecturers/ sessions. I have found one subject difficult as I feel we haven’t covered some topics and need to produce an assignment I feel I can’t

It’s been going ok so far, I feel like I said previously it has been a little stressful with the online sessions, finding the rooms for the sessions can be difficult too, having subjects once a fortnight is difficult to remember previous sessions. I have found the online timetable to be good

I have found getting the right amount of protective learning time whilst at work hard, I’m needed in the numbers so some weeks I haven’t been hitting that target. Also everyone at work still classes me as a healthcare assistant, so it’s difficult to break that barrier and work in my new role

I have received support in the form of I get all the information from the lectures online, I have the contacts should I wish to seek support but I haven’t needed to use these as of yet, I have met my contact who comes to work to visit me

Once I gain the qualification I will get a NMC pin and that allows me to take my own patients, this will then allow me to perform on another level to my patients and to be a nursing associate. This will then allow me to do the top up and become a registered nurse

We have social mornings on a Thursday and we hold fares throughout the year to fundraise. We all go out as a team once a month if not on shift to team build and let of steam! We sometimes go on walks and go for meals out as a team

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The campus it’s self I have found to be a good layout, communication from staff members has been really good, the student hubs and restaurants are all nice and social spaces are good, the car parks are well manned and are secure. The lecturers are all knowledgeable and are fab

Give it your best! Remember to relate to the questions asked, Choose your campus for ease of accessibility as it can take a while to get to! Transport isn’t possible for being such far away. Take into consideration child care. Make sure it’s the course you want to do