Registered Nurses/Nursing Students Chat Thread

Yes they do! Not sure where in the country they are though!

Personally, I'm just going to continue mine. Got no reason to stop it, I quite like that they are just for nurses, and I don't want the hassle of switching!

Not sure whether I trust the RCN to stand up for nurses enough, considering the election result :/

Ah I see. The RCN are supposed to be apolitical though

they did mention they were a lot throughout the election process that they are apolitical so would hope nurses could trust them.

I'm reasonably confident that I do trust them, however whether anything can be truly "apolitical" I confess I remain sceptical about.

Hiya! I just wandered if anyone has any advice regarding electives. I'm really interested in neonatal and will be doing my elective last thing next summer. How far in advance should I contact places and considering I want to do a UK placement rather than abroad, has anyone had a NICU placement somewhere that they really enjoyed and would recommend?

Also, if NICU doesn't work out does anyone have any interesting ideas for a child related elective in the UK? Google hasn't really thrown up anything amazing!

Thanks in advance

I'll post how I feel about politics and the RCN and their relationship with it all when I have some time, I'm busy at the mo and on my phone.

As for journals, I used to get the standard, in the end that and the NT are essentially the tabloids of the nursing journal world, they're good for keeping up to date with news in nursing and so on and sometimes have articles of use, but there are much better journals out there to use in academic work.

If you have an Athens log in you should be able to get the nursing standard through that, I think j can through the access to CINAHL I get through being an RCN member.

does anybody subscribe to any nursing journals or magazines?
I have been getting the nursing times but find the format a little difficult to digest at times so wondering if theres anything you all subscribe to that could be a good read?

If you find NT or NS hard going you will need to up your game as the other (proper) Journals are written in full on academic prose.

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If you find NT or NS hard going you will need to up your game as the other (proper) Journals are written in full on academic prose.

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I think that's a bit unfair. Claire hasn't even started her degree yet. It takes a while to get used to the style and content.

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Thank you forestcat I ve actually read loads of journals before but the poster made the assumption that I wouldn't be capable of this , the style of the nt with its non dyslexic friendly font is part of the reason I ve gone off it really. Just wish someone wouldn't pre judge my capabilities before understanding why I may be struggling to read some thing :/

Thank you forestcat I ve actually read loads of journals before but the poster made the assumption that I wouldn't be capable of this , the style of the nt with its non dyslexic friendly font is part of the reason I ve gone off it really. Just wish someone wouldn't pre judge my capabilities before understanding why I may be struggling to read some thing :/

Have you tried copying and pasting it into word so you can change it to a more suitable font?

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Did you ever get any support from the DSS at your uni? There's probably different tricks you can use to help you with that. Even I struggled with reading chemistry journals when I was at uni, I found it helpful to blow up the text on a photocopier and if I was at home, i'd print it out on coloured paper (black on lilac helps me read better). My sister is very badly dyslexic and when she had all her support at school I picked up a few things to help me, my brother and sister are both dyslexic but they never got me tested as I was "academic" when I was younger. I guess you don't need to up your game so much as devise a way to help yourself with it!

as you are dyslexic i can see NT and NS being a struggle based o nthe format things you've said - ironically the more academic journals might be easier as their layout and typography is rather more sober

forest cat makes a good point aobut copy and paste from e-editions