Kings college London children nursing

Hello I was wondering what experiences did you have while studying children nursing at kcl ?? Like the assignments?? Exams?? Social life?? Placements and the teachers ?? Because I received an overall distinction in my first year of health and social care level 3 and I am aiming to get DDD or higher so that I can come to kcl

I also applied for child nursing at KCL for 2024 entry. I also got two Distinctions in health and social care and am wondering the exact same thing. Thanks

have you gotten any offers yet from kcl they’re taking ages / i have interviews from 4/5 of my choices apart from them just wondering if anyone else is experiencing that?

have you gotten any offers yet from kcl they’re taking ages / i have interviews from 4/5 of my choices apart from them just wondering if anyone else is experiencing that?

hey guys i was looking for someone to open a discussion for kcl child’s nursing but i had my interview last week after not hearing fro
them since i first applied in october. i think there will be more interviews send out soon. i hope we all get an offer!! good luck

heyy girl!! don’t be scared it’ll be suprisingly easy. msg me on insta if you wanna i can help you!! @hayfaxv

Yes same here, I’ve had 4/5 interviews but I still havent heard anything at all from kings xx

Hey does anyone know how long KCL takes to reply back for a decision??

heyy ive got my interview today at 3 could u pls help me out, im so scared n feel unprepared (

did you get an offer yet?

no not yet ☹️ it probably gnna take a month or two until they respond back

omg really? that’s such a long time i’m confused, i did my interview a few days ago and the lady said i would get a response by the end of the day (i haven’t yet) but people usually say it’s 2 days after the interview, what course in nursing specifically did you apply for?

yeah knowing that its kings they will take a rlly long time to get back to u. it took them 2 months to get back to me for an interview. i applied for children’s nursing 😊 wbu??

adult nursing! and btw did they respond to you with an offer? 2 months is crazy

nope they still havent, my interview was on march 20th 😭 and yeah for reall, but tbf it is kcl n they’re known to take long so 🤷🏻*♀️ i guess we’ll have to wait and see

yeah ahaha lmk when you get an offer though 😭

Hi everyone!
I currently do children's nursing and am in my final year. I see you had your first instance of KCL being very *****y at time management. It only goes down from here! One of my biggest complaints with KCL is their lack of displaying essential info, like the room where our lectures will take place, incredibly last minute or putting up a bunch of rooms and having you email the lecturer to get proper info.
For our final year exams, many of our exams went without being given a rubric (assessment criteria) which lead to lots of stress an commotion and ofc lots of resits.
Your placement experience will be trust specific and hospital specific and even ward specific. King's doesn't work with Barts Health Trust (unless they updated it). Some trusts can be really sneaky. We were put on adults placements and the reason we were given was absolute bs. It was just Kings students in this specific trust. We were told this about a week before starting placement which meant we didn't get our rotas. I got mine a day before because I called like on 3 separate days. King's enabled this even though it was NOT allowed by the chief of nursing at that hospital. When exposed they and the PDNs sat in shame.
You really have to push for social life during placement time. This may mean even if you are Exhausted and in shambles after ydays shift, you force yourself to do something. Bedrotting on days off is very common unfortunately for students. Personally, I'm not sure how I will cope with this with no adjustments when qualified.
Shifts are allocated randomly (unless you have adjustments or flexible working). This means there is no structure to your week. It can also mean you have nO WEEKENDS. Yes they can be that cruel to you.
There's also nights. Which I like but after the second night my only function is crying.
Kings signs less hours for placement. You will be at placement for 12 hours. You get 30 mins 'paid break' so at the end of the day when it comes to signing off hours you need to say you've worked 11.5. Which doesn't sound like a lot but I promise it adds up. This also complicates things bc this .5 hours means ur always a few hours behind. LSBU and City give your the 12 hours I believe.
Some pros:
Kings doesn't tend to cross placements with exams and assignments deadlines. Which means you won't have to stress about exams or assignments as much when you are at placement, letting you focus on that. If you prefer to do exams and placements together (which means you will finish your last placements before students who have the opposite, I suggest LSBU).
Teachers are fine. Some are supportive, some are useless.
You can say you went to kings. There's not such a huge demand for King's nurses in the hospitals- you don't even need to get a first or a good grade at the end of your degree for nursing. Nursing is not that competitive due to the shortage. This means, especially in my experience, the student you're surrounded by are useful. I wouldn't have gotten through nursing with our my cohort and am grateful for everyone I met on this journey.
We graduate in January. For example, if you started nursing this year, Sept 2024, you will graduate January 2028. So you could be working as a nurse before you graduate. They do this to allow anyone behind on hours to graduate with the cohort which is thoughtful of them.
Also something to warn you of nursing as a whole. It will take more than it gives. Yes its a rewarding job and blah blah blah, but if it comes at the expense of your physical or mental health it won't be rewarding at all. If you don't enjoy placement by the end of first year or by the start of second, please leave. Please please please leave. Placement will be your entire job soon- if you don't enjoy it or find happiness in it then leave. You are wasting your effort and health for some **** profession in a business that's dying in the hands of our government. You deserve happiness and something that makes you happy. Get a job at Tesco or something whilst you work out what you want to do next. You may even enjoy retail.
Something that's pretty ironic about nursing is you are nursing the sick whilst becoming sick yourself. Throughout my years I have seen and faced too many examples of this. First off, unless you're blessed with great genes, your skin will go through some nasty phase. When I start placement I typically get acne. Sounds superficial but skin health Is still part of your health. Secondly, gut health and gastric. So, so, SO many people I've have spoken to developed chronic gastric and gut health issues after starting nursing. Which is a crazy correlation. This has happened to me also and made me feel very terrible for a lot of my placement. Thirdly, anxiety. The anxiety you get is CRAZY. its so bad. and the thing is if you get it at placement you're there for the next 12 hours babe. You're not going home soon.
And finally, nursing sucks. Like I said, the world is failing nurses nd healthcare workers. We work under a system that is being forced off a plank. Remember how I said nursing will take more than it will give? Yeah, you pay to be a nurse every year- around £120. You pay for revalidation which is a long ass reflection bs u have to do. God forbid you take a few years out of nursing to be a human and work on other things like being a parent, looking after a parent, travelling, self growth. Bc if you do not work 450 hours, you cannot do a reflection and revalidate so you risk losing your license. Not to worry, you don't have to redo your entire degree to be a nurse again. you just have to try getting into the super hard, intense and difficult-to-get-into course. Travel costs aren't covered, only if there's a strike and you had to pay extra to get in. There are nurses who have to stay in travel lodges nearby- so they don't go home, they sit in a travel lodge on their day off to make it to their shift the next day. Nursing does NOT pay well. In London the take home pay is around £2500. after rent and bills and the whole lot you're left with not very much. Nurses work bank shifts on their annual leaves. So even their paid time off they're working.
I don't ever encourage people to go to kings tbh. There's nothing spectacular about them apart from their name. They don't even give us a nice graduation venue