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I'm going to be sharing three or four additional things because I do already
have a video like this that I wish I knew before I started at nursing school.
So if you're interested in watching this, then keep on watching.
The first thing that I wish I knew before I started nursing school was that at
my university, the first year of nursing was a general,
regardless of what branch of nursing you applied for.
So let's just say you applied to become an adult nurse.
You applied to become a child nurse.
You applied to become a mental health nurse,
or even apply to become a learning disability nurse.
All the modules across all fields or all branches of nursing were exactly the
same. And then from second year onwards,
we split off into our specific field of practice,
but that isn't to say that, you know,
we split off and we never met each other second, third and fourth year,
there were some modules that were shared and there were some modules that were
different. This came with a whole bunch of advantages and disadvantages.
One of the advantages I'll talk about in my next point. And you know,
another advantage of, you know,
having an agenda full of practice that I found anyway, was that it was good to,
you know,
be in communication and good to have contact with people who weren't studying
the exact same thing that you were studying. For example,
I decided to study nursing and I can say hand on heart.
Before I started my nursing degree,
I have had some warped ideas of what mental health nurses did. Honestly,
I was thinking all they're doing is shading people paying piece books to the
floor, putting them in a prime position, giving them medication.
But when I spoke to shoot at nurses or student mental health nurses,
they were able to tell me that no mental health nursing,
isn't just that it involves a whole array of conditions. And, you know,
like they say,
there's no health about mental health and that is a hundred percent true.
So it was good just to be communication,
even with that learning disability to nurses,
and to be able to see the similarities between learning to speak to nurses and
mental health nurses, it was actually quite eyeopening. However,
one disadvantage of having a first year that was general and not
specific was that obviously if the first day is general,
that also means that your placements will be general for me.
The first year of my nursing degree,
my first placement was on an adult screeching ward.
And then my second placement was on a community,
was at a community mental health assessment. And I don't really mind, I liked,
you know, having the experience of different batches of nursing.
And I knew it was only going to be for first year. Similarly,
there were some people who applied for the, um,
mental health branch of nursing and their first Facebook was,
are now Abbott were spiritual ward.
And their second placement was on an adult cardiology board,
meaning that they went through a whole year of nursing,
but never really had a whole year of nursing school,
but never really had any placements that were specific to mental health.
There was another girl in my life, kind of like class cohort.
She applied to study mental health nursing,
but because of first year it was Jen what mine about C and I know what general
after lots of universities,
how fast basement her first placement and a second placement had, you know,
kind of, I don't want to say no correlation,
but it wasn't a specific to mental health as she would have liked to have been.
And the reason why it's,
I don't want to say that there was no coloration co combination is because,
like I said earlier, there is no health without mental health. I'm sure.
You know, like I'm already a registered nurse.
I've been a registered nurse for just over two years, I'm sure.
Or registered nurses and I'm even sure,
maybe some second and third gen nurses who are, I don't asses for fat,
you're going to placement. You'll go to work. And yes,
you may be on an adult ward,
but that doesn't mean mental health is not important. Similarly,
you may be a mental health nurse or you,
your placement might be on a mental health facility or wherever it is. And then,
you know, adult nursing does come into play. So don't think that just because,
Oh, I'm a mental health nurse or, Oh, I'm a Charles now. So my placements,
aren't really specific that I'm not going to learn anything. Trust me.
There is something to be learned.
And now this advantage of having a first year that is kind of general,
this might just be a myth, but I don't think it's a myth.
I think it's a thing that does definitely happen is that if you did,
let's just say, apply for learning disability nursing.
And then your first placement was on an adult ward.
Some student nurses did say that they felt their mentors weren't really
prioritizing their learning express because they were learning disability nurses
and no adult nurses. If that makes sense. Similarly,
there were some people who signed on to the adult nurse program,
but because their first placement was in a mental health ward and their mentors
knew like, Oh, actually when you qualify, you're going to become an adult nurse.
And also mental health nurse.
They felt like their mentors didn't really prioritize their learning. And like,
that's it, you know, some people may say, Oh, this isn't true,
but until you experience it for yourself, I actually do think it,
I actually do think it does occur, not for all placements, because like I said,
my second person was on a community mental health ward.
And I did feel as if my mental was hindering my learning.
But I do think that I do a hundred percent believe that if I told her,
Oh my gosh, I'm a mental health nurse. So I want to be a mental health nurse.
This is all the research that I've done. This is, you know,
all that practicing that I did when I was at sixth form and at college and all
that stuff, I'm sure she probably would've pushed me more. But at the same time,
it's your learning your drivers seat. You're only going to go a spot as really,
to a certain extent,
not a hundred percent because sometimes your environment limits what you can do.
But to a large extent, you're only going to go as far as you can,
as you push yourself to go. Anyway,
the second thing that I will share with you before I started nursing school,
and this comes off,
the previous point is that after first year you can actually change your field
or practice.
And that is one of the benefits of having a nursing program where the first year
is general for all four branches of nursing at my university. Like I said,
I'm good. All of the points that I'm mentioning in this budget,
they're all based on my experience, obviously, because that's all like,
not all I know, but that's what I experienced.
So that's what I'm going to share with you. But at my university,
I'm the past year, you could change your field of practice.
So if you have recently signed on to do adult nursing and you got accepted for
that,
or if you read you've signed on to do Lennon speedy and you've got accepted for
that. And then you decided, Oh, actually, you know,
I know I'd sign up to be mental health, but I've had a couple of,
I got placements and actually like adult placement, can I just state,
I don't know, kind of stick with mental health, you were able to, you know,
switch and go back and forth, but best believe it. Wasn't just a case of, Oh,
Oh, I want to do this. I just want to switch over to child nursing.
I just want to switch over to mental health nursing from someone else's that I
spoke to.
And just from some of the conversations that I can kind of hear through the
grapevine about how to go back and forth, it wasn't an overnight thing.
Some of them had to have several meetings with their mentors,
with their course practice supervisors and all of that stuff.
And sometimes it was on a first come first serve basis.
I'm aware of some nurses who wanted to switch over or some student nurses,
sorry, you wanted to switch over to different fields of practice,
but because there wasn't enough space or because they, you know,
express their interest too late, it wasn't, it wasn't, uh,
an option for them. I also wanted to say,
I actually talk about this myth in one of my other videos.
It may be from my channel, but it may not be up, but make sure you subscribe.
So you're notified when it does come up is that one myth of nursing practice is
that people say first year, it doesn't matter. First year does matter.
Let's just say there's two mental health nurses.
And then both of them want to switch over into child nursing.
After the first year,
the child knows in department that does not prioritize a person who has the
higher grades. Obviously there's other things that come to place. Like I said,
numbers as well,
but they're going to prioritize a person who has the height who has better
grades. Let's just be real. So when people say first,
it doesn't matter at first year does matter from what I could see, like I said,
I'm just speaking for my express. I didn't add up dancing. I stuck with it.
I didn't really want to go too into any other fields of practice, but the, um,
most transactions or the most swaps happen is that, does that make sense? Yeah.
The most exchanges you could say,
or the most crossovers happened between adult nurses and mental health nurses,
there are a lot of student adult analysis.
You wanted to do mental health nursing instead of the first year.
And there were a lot of, well, not a lot,
but there are a handful of mental health nurses who wanted to switch over into
adult nursing after, um, after the first year.
So that may be a possibility at your university. So if you're, you know,
at college of six, when you're thinking, Oh,
I'm not sure if I want to do adult or mental health or child nursing or
whatever, then you know, this, this may be an option for you down the line,
but I do want to stress that it's important that you kind of have a solid
decision now. And it's also important that you have a solid reason.
Like I always mentioned in a lot of my videos, just because you,
the decision now doesn't mean you're going to stick with it for the rest of your
life. Things change, people change the environment that we're in. It changes,
slow, think that, Oh, you're applying for child nursing.
And now you want to do adult nursing or your plan for mental health.
When you want to do learn disability.
It doesn't mean you're a sellout because well, sometimes it can mean that,
but it doesn't necessarily mean that that person's a sellout. It just means,
you know, they've changed their mind. Like I said, people change things,
change the environment, change what we want from life changes in general.
The third thing that I wish I knew before I started nursing school was that it
is actually very difficult, almost impossible. Actually.
I don't know anyone. I don't know anyone.
And I don't know of anyone who has actually, you know,
transferred from one nurse in school to the next nursing school. Like.
If you go.
To, I don't know, university of North England,
and then you go into your second year of nursing school and you decide,
actually I want to move over to university of South England.
And to just continue my nursing degree there, you actually can't do that. Like,
it's almost impossible,
like to the point where I'm actually saying you actually can't do that.
Chances are, they're going to say,
just finish your whole degree at university of North London,
and then maybe do like a post-graduate degree with us if you want to,
or they'll say, if you're going to leave the university of North England,
then you're going to have to start at the university of sapling.
And from the beginning of first year,
even though you've already done the first and second year at that university.
So that's one thing that I really wish I knew. I didn't know.
It was so difficult to move from one unit to the other.
Not that it's an option that, you know, a lot of people like to do,
but I haven't met some student nurses who for whatever reason have been in a
position where they've really had to change the location of their university,
but they were unable to do it.
And my understanding before I started my nursing degree before I started my
whole nursing career and stuff like that,
my understanding that was that regardless of what university you went to,
not that all the modules would be the same,
but that all the competencies will be the same because it is a nursing degree.
A lot of it is kind of, I don't wanna say managed by the NMC,
but a lot of it is based on, you know,
the NMC code and because university of North London, I mean,
university of North England and university of South England, you know,
follow the NMC code and the competencies out of your thought,
it was easy to move from one place to another. You know,
we have like six woman GCSE.
You could do your first year of GCSE at one uni because they use the AQR exam
board. And then you could do the second year of your GCCS at another university
provided that they use the same example, same of like six or more college.
You could do your ALS levels at this university. I mean, at this college.
And then you could go to the college,
50 miles down the road and do the second day of your,
a levels at that university at that college. Sorry,
because they use the same example. Then that's kind of how I saw the NMC.
I thought we MC was kind of like some sort of exam board.
So if you did want to move from one uni to another or one nursing degree to
another, then you could do that,
but you can't do that if you're in second year and you want to go to this uni
instead to study, you know, continue on nurse and private,
for whatever reason you can't actually do that.
Or it's almost impossible to do that.
And this is kind of like 0.3 as well. I mean,
this is kind of like another thing or four things that I wish I knew before I
started my nursing degree was that I felt like it would have taken a lot of
pressure off if I'm released, but I still think, you know,
a lot of the pressure that I had to comb for myself. Um,
but before things that I wish I knew before I started nursing school was that if
you don't manage to finish your nursing degree,
depending on how many credits you have,
and depending on the level of your credits,
you may be able to finish or not finish,
but you may be able to exit the program with a diploma in health and social
care. I do know of a handful of people who this happened to, you know,
they may have felt, you know, after the second year,
the main felt after the third year. So instead of them finishing the program,
I'm finishing with a bachelor's or a bachelor's honors in whatever field of
nursing that they started to, um,
apply for because they did finish their degree for whatever reason or a lot of
them, like I've said, depending on the level that you fell out from,
or the level that you need the program from.
And depending on the amount of credits you have,
you may be able to finish with a diploma in health and social care what some
people have done, even though they haven't finished a program. And then,
you know, kind of failed out with a diploma in health and social care.
Some of them may decide to top up that degree and then, you know,
get a full on degree in health and social care.
And some people decide to go to another university to study nursing and
basically start from year one again.
So that's another thing I wish I knew before I started my nursing degree.
Anyway, I hope you guys really enjoyed this video.
There's a four things that I wish I knew before I started my nursing degree.
If you'd like more bridges like this, make sure you give this video a thumbs up.
And also as well, if you know of anyone,
who's like been able to transfer from one university nursing degree to a
completely number, new university nursing degree and not had to let start again,
please let me know.
Cause I'm really interested to know if it's actually a thing that can happen
anyway. Thank you guys, watching it. Like, can you describe,
and I see guys in my next video, bye.