Children's Nursing at Surrey

#HelloMyNameIs Alice and I am currently in my 2nd year of studying Children’s Nursing. When I was thinking about what I should write, in my first ever blog entry, one topic kept circulating around my mind – experiencing resuscitations and emergency situations for the first time as student nurses. I remember being terrified before my […]

#HelloMyNameIs Beth, and I am a third year student children’s nurse. It’s a Wednesday morning, and I’m on shift on a busy general paediatric ward. My patient is a four year old boy with viral induced wheeze. His anxious mother looks suspiciously like one of the tutors at University, and she keeps wandering off to […]

#HellomynameisChlӧe and I am a first year child’s nursing student about to finish my first semester (scary, right?). Throughout my first semester at uni there have been challenges, new experiences, and a lot of fun times throughout freshers which have led me to some new friends and amazing societies. People aren’t lying, unfortunately, when they […]

#HelloMyNameIs Laura, and I am a third year student children’s nurse. As human beings, we often fail to give ourselves credit for the good we do and achievements we make, but as nurses I think this is something we can struggle with even more. You observed your patient working harder with their breathing, so bleeped the […]

#HelloMyNameIs Ellie, and I am a third year student children’s nurse. All things that work together often achieve a greater outcome for example Ant and Dec, Ben and Jerry, wine bottle and straw. These things work because they are united, they are a team. This isn’t to say that each individual thing is not good […]

#HelloMyNameIs Maddie, I am currently studying my 2nd year of nursing. I thought it would be useful to write a blog to you to explain some helpful things and advice about the transition from 1st year to 2nd year. The truth is, is that 1st year goes so quickly it is almost scary knowing that […]