Adult Nursing Placements - How are they arranged?

Hello!

I'm excited to have just received an unconditional offer to study MSc Adult Nursing at Middlesex University.

I've always wondered about how nursing placements are arranged. Do students have any say in their placements? What if you have a preferred nursing specialty that you would like to pursue - are these taken into account when deciding your placements?

Any nursing students - BSc or MSc - going through or have gone through placements here? Can you please describe your experiences/feelings in your placements so far?

Reply 1

Subcutaneous

You get a bit of say, but its tough trying to balance 300+ students to maybe like 150 placements and please everyone. Usually those who have additional needs, parenting, and flag issues are prioritised and then a lot is random allocation and looking at distance.

Your placements have little impact on your career and more about the wider perspective of the profession- how we apply our skills, theory and the healthcare landscape. I have been qualified almost 14years and don't even work now in the field I did any placements in! Go in with an open mind, be willing to learn, ask questions, see and experience new things and enjoy it

Reply 2

Emily_B

Original post

by O444

Hello!
I'm excited to have just received an unconditional offer to study MSc Adult Nursing at Middlesex University.
I've always wondered about how nursing placements are arranged. Do students have any say in their placements? What if you have a preferred nursing specialty that you would like to pursue - are these taken into account when deciding your placements?
Any nursing students - BSc or MSc - going through or have gone through placements here? Can you please describe your experiences/feelings in your placements so far?

There's various things which come into play when allocating placements. These include:

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Which healthcare providers the university has links with.

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Which branch of nursing the student is studying (at pre-registration level, this is your "preferred nursing specialty").

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Accessibility from the student's term-time address. I had one placement which, when the practice office decided they'd messed up my allocation, re-allocated me to somewhere which was practically impossible for me to get to without a car (which I didnt have at the time)... a word in their ear later and they went "oh yeah" and allocated me somewhere significantly more practical.

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"Student learning needs" - they won't send you purely round as many medical wards, or community settings, as possible.

Students do get some sort of choice in their final placement.

My placements looked like this:

School immunisations

Elderly medicine ward

Day surgery ward

Cardiology ward

A&E

Nursing home

Stroke ward

Vascular surgery ward

Other people in my cohort had placements on other medical/surgical wards, outpatients, ICU/HDU, operating theatres, with specialist nurses, GP practices, health visitors, the local hospice..... the list goes on, and it's the same for the students I currently mentor.

Reply 3

Han-WrexhamUni

Original post

by O444

Hello!
I'm excited to have just received an unconditional offer to study MSc Adult Nursing at Middlesex University.
I've always wondered about how nursing placements are arranged. Do students have any say in their placements? What if you have a preferred nursing specialty that you would like to pursue - are these taken into account when deciding your placements?
Any nursing students - BSc or MSc - going through or have gone through placements here? Can you please describe your experiences/feelings in your placements so far?

Hi there,

I am a current Mental Health Nursing Student in my second year of the degree.

I'm currently on placements and really enjoying them. Here at Wrexham University, students are able to suggest placements that they would like to go on; however, it is never 100% certain that they will get the placements you have asked for, due to staffing, avaibility of placements, and many other factors.

In your second year (and in your third year), you can have the opportunity to complete an elective placement, these give you more flexability to work within Wales and provide you with a little more freedom.

Hope this helps,
Han - WrexhamUniReps
(Second Year Mental Nursing Student)

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