Hannah Newstead: My name is Hannah Newstead and I am currently studying Adult Nursing
at LSBU.
The teaching and facilities here are really high tech and the lecturers really know their
stuff.
It’s very exciting how they are able to teach us and they are still practicing themselves;
I think that is really important, especially as medicine is
ever changing.
Renee Francis: Within Learning Disability Nursing people come from a range of backgrounds.
There are students who have worked as support workers before, there are older students with
families who come onto the programme, there’s also students who come with A levels that
may have family experiences of learning disability so we really get a range of people with all
sorts of experiences, but if your enthusiastic about learning disability nursing and you’ve
got a real passion for people with learning disabilities then this is really the programme
for you.
Rose Mahoney: The teaching here is amazing, we get so many extra speakers in and specialists;
so we not only get our lecturers but our lecturers know the specialists in these areas and we
get them in; which is amazing because we get the right information from the right people.
The facilities; we basically have a fake hospital at our University, it’s amazing and we have
a SimMan and a SimJunior and I think practising on them and that experience is just priceless
as it’s as close as you can get until real life.
Nana Osei-Mensah: My name is Nana Osei -Mensah and I am studying Midwifery.
I’ve just come to the skills lab to learn how to attach babies and teach mothers how
to hand express, so we come here and we practice with the dolls and the knitted breasts and
just get a bit more confident of breast feeding so we can help the mothers.
Christine Peterson-Mckinney: Throughout the two, three or four years students go through
what we call the Occupational Therapy process.
Over that time they are in classes for a period of time but they are also in clinical work,
and over the two, three or four years it comes to four clinical placements which is equivalent
to about 1200 hours of clinical time in various sites all around London and southern England.
Bernard Danderson: Diagnostic Radiography involves taking x-rays of patients, the course
revolves around anatomy and physics and it’s quite enjoyable and quite interesting.
If you want to study at a University that is renowned for its education in terms of
healthcare I think LBSU is the place.
Adele Stewart-Lord: We have a virtual laboratory in which we enable our students to practice
set up of patients on linear accelerators similar to what they would experience in the
clinical department.
During these set-ups students become comfortable in using the clinical equipment we also have
an additional treatment planning suite in which students can then practice skills to
become competent practitioners in the clinical department.
And when they complete their degree they are eligible to register with the Health Professions
Council as Therapeutic Radiographers.
Tess Lugos: Well one of the unique features of this programme (BSc Chinese Medicine - Acupuncture)
is we have lecturers from both the UK and China.
Things I recommend about the programme are the excellence in teaching, the facilities
we have in this K2 building which is lovely and new and everything works, the relationship
we have with the Confucius Institute which means we have the variety of lecturers’
and the experiences that they bring.
Rockefeller Zimba: The placements that I did have really helped me within my career path,
I’ve always been interested in mental health and the placements I have been sent on were
on acute wards, secondary intensive care units and also in the community.
I completed my course this year, went through the interview process and I’m working as
a mental health social worker in a community mental health team.
Harry Macdonald-Lucas: I would definitely recommend studying Social Work at LSBU because
the Health and Social Care faculty has a really good reputation here and a lot of the lecturers
have a lot of credibility; they have published a lot of journals and books and south bank
tends to be very well respected among other people I’ve met.
Christina Samuel-Manaj: The bursaries that we are afforded and the funding is definitely
vital to what we do here.
If I didn’t have the bursary I wouldn’t be the student I am now.
Hannah Newstead: I chose LSBU as its one of the best for nursing and I think the fact
that it is so closely connected to some of the best hospitals in London like UCLH (University
College London Hospital), Guy’s and St Thomas’; it’s a real selling point, I mean if you
get to work at these hospitals you are going to experience lots of different things.
Rose Mahoney: I one hundred percent recommend LSBU to other nursing students because the
experience you get is just phenomenal.
Rockefeller Zimba: LSBU did transform my life, throughout the three years I was studying
here I was learning a lot; developing myself personally and professionally and I agree
it did change my life.