Blogs
Julie's Mum invites you into her world caring for her 16 year old daughter who has a serious mental illness. Life as a nursing student with Florence Nursing Tales, and the latest thoughts of Britain's Nurses in the Bulletin.
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Great Expectations
Florence Nursing Tales |
"She is only a first-year" is no longer a valid get-out-of-jail-card for this second year student.
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A Positive Approach
Florence Nursing Tales |
Flo has had enough of reading/hearing/seeing negative and dour press surrounding the nursing profession. Fresh from her latest placement this student nurse has only positive stories to share.
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'Twas the Week Before Placement...
Florence Nursing Tales |
Flo is getting ready to tackle her demons and stop being a bit of an emu...you know the ones that run away and hide from things that scare them. It's placement time!
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Stuck in a Rut
Florence Nursing Tales |
Struggling to find a balance between work life and studies is hard, especially when Come Dine With Me is on...
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Midpoint Musings
Florence Nursing Tales |
Mid-way through her nursing degree Flo is far from having the infamous Second Year blues.
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All Work and No Play
Florence Nursing Tales |
Second year blues are biting.
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Second Year Fear1
Florence Nursing Tales |
"The second year is the hardest by far" they say. Flo is starting to agree...
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Placement Perils
Florence Nursing Tales |
The 6 deadly pitfalls of nursing placements. But Flo can't wait to get back out there.
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What a difference 365 days make
Florence Nursing Tales |
Our student blogger looks back on her first year of nursing training and is amazed at what she has accomplished in only one year.
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Know it all
Florence Nursing Tales |
How Youtube and colouring books can help students to stay on top of the masses of information a nursing degree throws at them.
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You know you're a nurse when...3
Florence Nursing Tales |
Over-friendly fellow commuters, acronym dependency and more of the tell tale signs that you've become a nurse.
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Time flies
Florence Nursing Tales |
I've been such a busy bee of late. Between lectures, seminars, tutorials, studying, flat sitting, building wardrobes, and hand-washing laundry, things have gotten a bit hectic!
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Let's Start From the Beginning...2
Florence Nursing Tales |
First of all allow me to introduce myself, dear readers. My name, or rather my online pseudonym, is Florence Nursingtales. I am an adult-branch, first-year student nurse, whose journey to becoming a qualified nurse started just under two years ago.
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My first clinical placement
Florence Nursing Tales |
The transition from being a thus far purely-academic student nurse to being an oh-my-god-they’re-trusting-me-to-go-out-into-practice-and-look-after-real-people-with-real-ailments student nurse can be difficult to say the least!
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Flo's New Year's resolutions
Florence Nursing Tales |
New year, new career for Flo. The resolutions of a student nurse...
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Week One
Florence Nursing Tales |
So I have come to the end of my first week as a student nurse, and in all honesty, it’s been somewhat of an emotional rollercoaster. Yet more forms to be signed, guidelines handed out, PCTs allocated, and of course new friendships were forged.