Advantages: A job which you can truly love if you want to Disadvantages: Lots of Hard work which often is not appreciated
...place on the course for nursery Nursing. They had changed the name to Childcare and Education at that time.
They said that they usually had around 500 applications for about 80-100 places.
The first year was spent doing subjects like Child Development, care and feeding of babies, play, introduction to child protection, introduction to special needs, food and nutrition just to name a few. There were 12 subjects in all. For the first year at ...
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Advantages: Stimulating and enjoyable work. Disadvantages: Underpaid and usually long hours
...of a day nursery, a nursery inspector and an ex lecturer on both NNEB and BTEC nursery nursing courses I have seen many nursery nurses working their socks off. A recent survey found that the average salary of a nursery nurse is currently £7,700. That's correct, £7,700 per year. That's because so many of them are under the age when you have to pay the minimum wage. The average age of the nursery nursing population at present is only 24. In my experience ...
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Advantages: A rewarding job can be gained from this qualification. Disadvantages: The course is hard work and requires a lot of determination.
...a typical day in a nursery full of mummys' and daddys' little darlings.
However, it's not all bad, I have worked with kids from being sixteen and I do love my job! It all started when I went as a YTS student, in a private day nursery with an age range of children from six weeks old to four/five years old. Most private day nurseries have this age range and also provide services for after school care too.
After a year on my YTS, I decided to attend ...
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Advantages: Job satisfaction if you like working with children. Disadvantages: Lousy pay and conditions. Utterly unrepresented and exposed to all sorts of professional risks.
...inspired me to talk about nursery nursing. It's what my girlfriend does for a "living" and it's about time someone said something.
Teachers, doctors and nurses are undervalued but at least they have good unions fighting for better conditions. Nursery nurses (Or "early years practitioners", as they are now known) are ignored, written off as unskilled non-professionals with cushy part- time jobs. That is utterly untrue. Consider the following:
-A ...
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Advantages: Great if you love kids... Disadvantages: could be a nightmare if you don't!
...in a very well run nursery which takes newborn babies to children who are school aged.
The staff were well qualified, and good at their jobs, which made my experience of this a better one.
Nursery nursing is so appealing because of all those special moments you get with the children. When they do things for the first time, or when a little one runs up to you arms stretched out for a cuddle. It's so rewarding when you are able to teach the children ...
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06.01.2006
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