Nursing Studies at Surrey

#HelloMyNameIs Beth, and I am a third year student children’s nurse. I was six when my brother Joseph was born. He was a placid baby, happy to lay in his bouncy chair and watch the world go by, and I was grateful for this as a quiet child who adored babies and was generally a […]

#HelloMyNameIs Tia and I’m a second year Child Nursing student. Nurses are amazing at looking after others but when it comes to looking after ourselves it is an area that we can often struggle in. However, it is true that you can’t care for others until you care for yourself. Therefore it is important to […]

#HelloMyNameIs Lizzie and I am a current third year child nursing student. ‘Can I be a ‘normal student’ as a nursing student?’ ‘Will I have the time to socialise, join a sport or society and make the most of my university experience?’ are questions that many healthcare students, as soon as you get that coveted […]

#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 […]