I'm going to study mental health nursing this year in September. When I did my interviews, they really liked the fact I mentioned safeguarding, complaint procedures, balancing compassion with competence. They also appreciated my work experience, which was only 110 hours as a volunteer in hospital and 5 days of experience as a BTEC student nurse. But, I feel because I only just turned 18 two days ago, they weren't too fussy on my experience and more on academic criteria. I heard that anatomy and physiology is often hard in regards to Uni, but you should probably just revise it, not use to make it into the course. I'm sure all your other experience will absolutely help. But expressing knowledge on policies and procedures will help you get in (like safeguarding and wellbeing, complaint procedures, multidisciplinary delegation, etc) Based on what you've stated, I'm sure you have a good shot making it in. And from my knowledge, all student nurses who do placement (mandatory to the course) receive an NHS bursary for each year you do placement. Good luck though x