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Neonatal pathway

Heyyyy

I have just started my children’s nursing undergraduate degree and there is a neonatal pathway available on this course which I am so so eager to do. However I need to write essentially a personal statement in order to apply. Any tip? Any neonatal nurses?

Anything will help, thanks x

Reply 1

Tracey_W

Original post by MarthaMaeR

Heyyyy
I have just started my children’s nursing undergraduate degree and there is a neonatal pathway available on this course which I am so so eager to do. However I need to write essentially a personal statement in order to apply. Any tip? Any neonatal nurses?
Anything will help, thanks x

I would suggest that you just continue with your nursing degree until you qualify.

When you start applying for jobs in your final months as a student nurse apply for the neonatal nurse position and see how it goes, if not you can still apply for a nursing job on neonatal ward's and gain experience.

As long as you are a qualified adult, children nurse or midwife then you can apply to work on the neonatal department and then you can apply for to become a qualified neonatal nurse as you can do the training while working.

NHS registered midwife.

Reply 2

MarthaMaeR

Original post by Tracey_W

I would suggest that you just continue with your nursing degree until you qualify.
When you start applying for jobs in your final months as a student nurse apply for the neonatal nurse position and see how it goes, if not you can still apply for a nursing job on neonatal ward's and gain experience.
As long as you are a qualified adult, children nurse or midwife then you can apply to work on the neonatal department and then you can apply for to become a qualified neonatal nurse as you can do the training while working.
NHS registered midwife.

Thank you so much for your advice Tracy, I really appreciate your time. However I will still be studying children’s nurses, it will just be with additional modules and one placement in a NICU a year. So it’s ideal for me personally and I’m ready to take it on, I just wondered if there is any significant points to add in.
Many thanks x