Hardy*Dele 💍👅

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I just thought I would introduce myself and explain that this page will be full of humour, experiences and advice surrounding my journey as a paediatric student nurse. I am now coming to the end of my three years training and it has been a rollercoaster of emotions and experiences but I would love to share it with the people of twitter.

So lets start by explaining my current situation, I am a third year student nurse who is in her final management placement of third year before qualifying as a paediatric band 5 staff nurse. Now, as you can probably assume the whole end-in-sight journey has been thrown up in the air due to the pandemic situation, so in order to qualify I have had to opt in and become a band 4 nurse currently working on a surgical ward at my local children’s hospital. This is where I will be qualifying to, the benefit being that I am able to settle in without the stress of joining somewhere new when I qualify (at least I will know how the ward runs and the pace of work there) however, it is all new and very frightening at times. So far it has been different from day to day regarding the workload but I am thoroughly enjoying my time meeting the team and helping out with the situation. 

I hope this blog will be useful and enjoyable for some people, please message me if there is anything you would like me to discuss about my experiences!

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So first year of becoming a student nurse was a rollercoaster of ups and downs that pushed me to some of my absolute limits and made me realise how much stronger I was than I originally thought. I was only 18 at the time and had ended up going to a University a few hours away from where I lived meaning I had to stay in halls. This was a scary concept what with being in a flat with 11 people I had never met, they all ended up being lovely but there were challenges with that as well (this is another story for another day!).

We start our training as a mixture of careers to ensure we get used to working as a multi-disciplinary team. This meant I got to know a lot of adult nurses, paramedics, midwifes, mental health nurses, ODPS and of course fellow paediatric nurses, highlighting to myself the importance of working together. Our University has amazing facilities with simulation suites making practice as realistic as possible! This sounds incredible but having never done anything like this before, it was all very daunting. We had actors, simulation dolls and had to work together and figure out situations that none of us had ever experienced before, but this was something you slowly get used to…even though I would say it still isn’t my favourite aspect of the degree even approaching the end of the three years.

After 6 months of simulation practice it was time to get out into the real world. My first year placements (also another story) all taught me so much and allowed me to develop not only as a nurse but also as a person, you see and witness so much of the world that you have never had an insight into before that you can not help but grow and appreciate the little things in your life. I went from a very intense placement to spending some time in the community and seeing the invaluable service that nurses provide within people’s homes as well as in the hospital.

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