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Carry on up the... hospital.

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...my aaplication to NMAS (the Nursing and Midwifery Advice Service this being the nursing equivalent to the general UCAS service), followed by an interview at the uni. And success! I had gained a place, but little did I know what was to come. Don't get me wrong, I was grateful for the experience that I had but nothing was to prepare me for the next round of extra hard lectures. We were bombarded with notes and essays from day one, and I am again grateful ...
...with no experience whatsoever in nursing care. The course is structured as such: Year 1: Common Foundation Programme. 12 weeks theory, then 12 weeks either acute care or community. Then another 12 weeks theory, followed by 12 weeks acute care or community (dependant on what your first placement was). Year 2: branch specific. More or less the same as year one, but with more emphasis on what you were studying. Year 3: same again, although your final ...

dynamicnurse 28.09.2007 · Read full review
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Ooh matron!

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...lots of good things about nursing in Plymouth, and living in Plymouth anyway I didn't really want to leave behind the family. Once starting, it was soon to be a different matter though as lectures were cancelled without us knowing until we got there; visiting speakers never turned up (even our own lecturers never turned up) because they all though that what they due to teach was on a different day; support from academia was there but nearly non-existent ...

danthepianoman 11.01.2006 · Read full review
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