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Hi, sorry if this is a silly question, but I will be studying children's nursing in September at Edge Hill & was just wondering what is involved within the placements? Like how hands on will it be what kind of duties will I have to perform?

Hi Bethany,

Congratulations on getting a place! You must be excited to start!

It does depend on the placements, but do expect hospital based placements to be very hands on! Community nursing or health visitor placements tend to be less hands on.

What you'll be expected to do will all depend what year you're in but generally: observations, feeds, insertion of NG tubes, removal of cannulas, medicines management, preparing a bedspace for an admission, admitting patients to the ward, observation of procedures, documentation, talking to parents/patients, liaising with the MDT, managing your own patient workload... There may also be the opportunity to learn skills specific to that ward or area, for example plastering, wound dressings or 12 lead ECGs in ED for example. Health visitor or community placements do tend to be less hands on and more observational. I did a comm placement in 3rd year. My friend had her car so we were allowed to do the occasional visit on our own.

The list just goes on! Obviously the more challenging of these tasks will be under direct guidance or supervision from your mentors with the aim of giving you increased autonomy throughout your course. Good luck!

Hi, I will be starting mental health nursing in march at edge hill, and just wanted to read more about the placements and was just wondering what kind of duties and responsibilities are involved within the placements?

to what extent does a nurse study about healthcare systems?

Healthcare systems meaning...?

do nurses study about it and do nurses go about it in detail?

sorry if my question was vague

to what extent does a nurse study about healthcare systems?

if you're talking about commissioning, public health, NHS accountability etc, then we did one module on it. So not terribly in-depth!

I was just wondering, did you guys have to provide exam certificates when going to enrollment/interviews?

I'm applying for Midwifery for 2017 entry. I have two questions really -


2) I've tried to avoid talking about being a parent in my PS as in "being a parent has prepared me for Midwifery", because I read that admissions tutors don't like that, but I have talked about how pregnancy sort of opened my eyes to what being a midwife entails and the care they provide to women throughout the pregnancy rather than just their job starting and ending with delivering babies. Is this likely to be ok or should I leave that out too?

Hi guys,
I was wondering what skills I could learn before studying nursing and would be of value for my personal statement?
I was thinking along the lines of taking a first aid course?

Many thanks,
Natasha Lockwood