Hannah Newstead: My name is Hannah Newstead and I am currently studying Adult Nursing
at London South Bank University.
The teaching and facilities here are really high tech like the lecturers really know their stuff.
It’s very exciting how they are still able to teach us but still practice themselves;
I think that is really important, especially when medicine is
ever changing.
Renee Francis: Within Learning Disability Nursing people come from a range of backgrounds.
There's 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
might 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 there's a specialist in this area 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 just think practising on them - that experience is just priceless
I mean that's as close as you're going to get to real life before you actually get 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 either 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 doing clinical work, and over the two, three or four years it is
four 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 it
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 London South Bank University 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 both from the UK and also from China. Things I'd 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 that 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.