Am i a failure?

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Am I a failure for wanting to be a nurse not sure what one but ideally just working with adults or children healthcare but I don’t wanna go uni and don’t think its for me. I do want apprenticeship. I took a gap year and still don’t know what to do

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isaac123444566

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by Ineeduniadvice

Am I a failure for wanting to be a nurse not sure what one but ideally just working with adults or children healthcare but I don’t wanna go uni and don’t think its for me. I do want apprenticeship. I took a gap year and still don’t know what to do

I mean you can become a nurse through an apprenticeship? what's the issue

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enbbdoeus

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by Ineeduniadvice

Am I a failure for wanting to be a nurse not sure what one but ideally just working with adults or children healthcare but I don’t wanna go uni and don’t think its for me. I do want apprenticeship. I took a gap year and still don’t know what to do

You can take a medical apprenticeship? How are yoh a failure

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normaw

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by Ineeduniadvice

Am I a failure for wanting to be a nurse not sure what one but ideally just working with adults or children healthcare but I don’t wanna go uni and don’t think its for me. I do want apprenticeship. I took a gap year and still don’t know what to do

Why don't you apply for a job as a Healthcare Assistant as a first step? It will give you an insight into the career and then you can look for apprenticeship opportunities if you decide it is the right path for you.

https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/explore-roles/healthcare-support-worker/roles-healthcare-support-worker/healthcare-assistant

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Emily_B

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by Ineeduniadvice

Am I a failure for wanting to be a nurse not sure what one but ideally just working with adults or children healthcare but I don’t wanna go uni and don’t think its for me. I do want apprenticeship. I took a gap year and still don’t know what to do

Honestly... this is not being a failure. You're still trying to figure out what you want to do and how to go about it.

As already suggested, try getting a job as a healthcare assistant. This could be in a community setting, in an outpatients department, in a nursing home, on a hospital ward (and there's variety in specialities and experience between the multiple different adult inpatient wards where I work, let alone the children's department!) and this will give you valuable insight into "the basics" of nursing practice. My first job in healthcare was as a healthcare assistant in the operating department at my local hospital. It was a bit of a shock to the system as to how different things are there compared to the basic care I was expecting to be providing on a ward! (I did also work on "nurse bank" as a healthcare assistant on the wards alongide this and then alongside my nursing degree).

As for going to university... nursing apprenticeships are available, even if few and far between. There is an element of university involved - to practice as a registered nurse, you need a nursing degree which requires university and this involves a minimum of 2300 theory hours as well as 2300 placement hours. The nurse apprentice based on my ward, when on theory blocks, spends 15hrs a week working as a HCA and the other 22.5 hours doing theory stuff (lectures, seminars, working on assignments).

I was 25 when I started my nursing degree. The age range of my cohort was 18-45, where the majority weren't aged 18 straight out of A levels on starting. One of my recent students was 45 when they qualified as a nurse!

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