Nursing 2014 entry

Hey.. I am a 2014 entry student hoping to apply for Child Nursing, I thought I would get in on this chat! Errmm firstly I cannot figure out this site really (like I don't know how you kind of 'post a question') so if someone could enlighten me that would be really great and also, I don't know about any other 2014 students, but I am really struggling finding a hospital volunteering placement does anyone have any advice on finding placements like that? I have tried on the NHS site and I was thinking of going down to my local hospital and asking whether they have a human resources department and ask them directly what to do... but I don't know whether that's a normal thing to do - it is a hospital after all :/ not sure. Thank you!

Hey.. I am a 2014 entry student hoping to apply for Child Nursing, I thought I would get in on this chat! Errmm firstly I cannot figure out this site really (like I don't know how you kind of 'post a question') so if someone could enlighten me that would be really great and also, I don't know about any other 2014 students, but I am really struggling finding a hospital volunteering placement does anyone have any advice on finding placements like that? I have tried on the NHS site and I was thinking of going down to my local hospital and asking whether they have a human resources department and ask them directly what to do... but I don't know whether that's a normal thing to do - it is a hospital after all :/ not sure. Thank you!

Most hospitals should have a voluntary services department? Have you looked on your hospitals nhs website?


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Hey - welcome!
When I was applying for voluntary experience I also looked on NHS website, yes you do have to ring the hospitals, ask to speak to HR, personnel or voluntary services. I found a lot of them were grateful for the interest but didn't have anything in place for volunteers, or had a waiting list. My advice would be to make a list of hospitals within travelling distance, ring them in working hours as although it's a hospital the offices are only open 9-5ish! Be prepared for a lot of no's, but also don't give up - look further afield (can say on your personal statement that you are prepared to travel to placements) or look at hospices or other voluntary organisations. Doesn't necessarily have to be hospital experience, as the tutors at open days at uni told me. They stressed it's more important what u take away from the experience.
Sorry if this post is a bit long got carried away hah.

Heyy thank you! hehe
To be honest I have never tried ringing the hospitals directly so that may be a good idea and yeah I will write down a list of them, yeah I was told that it does not necessarily have to be hospitals but my tutors from school keep like screaming down my throat about that I will never get in without Hospital experience - not the most helpful really! I will definitely all that you said, ringing them etc and hopefully - thank you!! And don't worry about the length, it was really helpful ^^ mine is long too!! So are you a 2014 Nursing applicant? or in nursing now?

Glad I could help

I know what you mean, you're told doesn't have to be hospital but you want to get that so it looks better! I felt daft ringing them at first too ha. No I'm not a nurse, I wish! I'm a 2014 applicant too want to get in Manchester met or Salford. Where are you applying?

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Anyone looked at surrey or leeds... i haven't had a chance to go to the open days and hoping to get my UCAS in in the next 2 weeks!

Hey.. I am a 2014 entry student hoping to apply for Child Nursing, I thought I would get in on this chat! Errmm firstly I cannot figure out this site really (like I don't know how you kind of 'post a question') so if someone could enlighten me that would be really great and also, I don't know about any other 2014 students, but I am really struggling finding a hospital volunteering placement does anyone have any advice on finding placements like that? I have tried on the NHS site and I was thinking of going down to my local hospital and asking whether they have a human resources department and ask them directly what to do... but I don't know whether that's a normal thing to do - it is a hospital after all :/ not sure. Thank you!

I want to be an Adult Nurse since I was at school aswell - but did work for 2 years and went back to college.
I want to go to Southampton in 2014 and would be considered a "adult learner" as I would be 20 when I start.
I am a HCA at Winch hospital on the bank and uni's said that it would be brilliant to put into personal statement as it shows you have previous experience and what it is like to be on a ward and work alongside nurses.
If you have any other work experience relating to nursing for example doctors surgeries (although unlikely) and maybe community nursing then that is also considered to look good.
Good luck and maybe see you there!

If you have a specific question you can always post a thread in the relevant forum, there's an orange button on the blue bar at the top of all the threads saying "post new thread" where you can do this. Alternatively you could use the search function in the top right corner of the page to see if anything has been posted already on what your looking for.

With volunteering, like others have suggested try contacting the hospitals directly. It can be difficult getting hospital work experience, admissions tutors know this, but there's loads of other things you can try too, like volunteering with St John Ambulance or the Red Cross, volunteering in nursing homes or care homes. I see you're interested in kid's nursing, spending time with a youth organisation like the cubs or brownies or something similar would be useful for your application too.

Hope this is of use to you

I went to an open day in June.

Surrey university is lovely, course is slightly different to other uni's in that you do until Easter in the university doing theory and from then until the end of the year on placement (in the first year this is). You also get given a locality for the three years, which is a set section of centers in which you will be doing placements for the three years, rather than being anywhere in the county like I've found at some other universities.

Relatively low entry requirements too (BBB for adult nursing) and the campus itself is beautiful.

I haven't looked around leeds so I can't comment on that, but if you're looking for another option then I would definetly say surrey is the way to go!

Thanks so much!... Think I want my top 3 choices to be leeds, nottingham and surrey... just don't know which order to put them in since they all have the same entry requirements!