[Rebecca] Hey everyone, I'm Rebecca.
A second year student adult nurse
here at the University of Nottingham.
Normally you can find me on YouTube
at Rebecca B talking all things nursing and university.
But today I'm here to tell you about what you can
expect as a student here at the University of Nottingham.
The first thing that you probably want to know about is
the most exciting bit, it's your placement.
So as you know nursing is 50% theory and 50% practice.
So you will be on placement for
50% of your course. As a university,
we have amazing networks with trusts all
over the East Midlands to be able to get you
a variety of specialities too be able to work
in. One of these trusts is Nottingham University Hospitals,
which includes Queen's Medical Centre,
Nottingham City Hospital and the Ropewalk as well.
Queen's Medical Centre is one of
the major trauma centres for the UK.
So if you ever get a placement there,
especially in one of the high dependency areas,
that is such an amazing opportunity.
Nottingham University Hospitals is
currently trying to get Magnet status.
If they succeed, they will be the first hospital trust
in the whole of Europe to be able to get their Magnet status.
And they will set an example for how hospitals across
Europe should be. My experience with placement,
I have been so, so lucky.
None of my placements have been the same.
I've worked in so many different specialities
across all the different Trusts across Nottinghamshire
So I've worked in stroke rehabilitation,
interventional radiology theatres.
I've been in the community with the district nurses.
I've been on Health Care for Older People with a speciality in
dementia and elective orthopaedic surgery
with the occasional trauma patient as well.
And my next placement was supposed to be
in the adult intensive care unit.
You will also get the opportunity to undertake
an elective placement at the University of Nottingham.
So that means that you can go
anywhere in the world that you desire.
For my elective placement,
I'm planning on going to
the sexual health services because that's
an area I've always been interested in.
So I thought I'd take the opportunity to
see if it's a place that I'd actually like to work.
Another thing to expect at
the University of Nottingham is that you
have the opportunity to learn across the faculty.
So not only will you be learning with
other student nurses from other different fields,
but you will also get the opportunity to learn
with other health and social care students as well.
So that includes medics, physiotherapists,
midwives, and social workers,
and other healthcare students as well.
Every single year we do these IPL sessions,
which is interprofessional learning,
where you'll get one person from
each course in a team and you get to do some team building.
And also you going through some patient case studies to see
how your role in the MDT would work in that case study.
It's also a great way to make friends
with people on the other courses as well.
Although nursing is a difficult degree,
you definitely still have time to get
involved in extracurricular activities.
At the University of Nottingham,
we have over 200 societies to meet
all needs, from belly dancing to bell ringing.
So you will definitely find something to suit you!
I'm actually on the committee for the Uni Boob Team.
We represent the charity CoppaFeel,
the breast cancer charity here on campus.
And so we do a lot of fundraising and stuff like that.
And also I'm a part of the Harry Potter and Quidditch Society.
I like to go there occasionally.
But there are so many societies that caught
my eye that I'm actually hoping that I
might be able to make it to in our third year.
Look at the Students' Union website
for the full list of societies.
You might find one that tickles your fancy.
Finally, I wanted to talk about what a sense of
community you get being
a student nurse here at the University of Nottingham.
Studying nursing at uni,
you will get a relationship with the staff and
students like no other course at Uni.
They are your real support system because they
know what you're going through as nurses themselves.
And every first year student is
allocated a Personal Tutor who is a member of
the faculty and a Peer Mentor who is a second or third year student
like me, I'm a Peer Mentor,
who are specifically there to support you.
They're
just an email or a telephone call
away if you need them for anything.
I have loved being a Peer Mentor.
Whenever my peer mentees email
me and ask to meet up or anything,
I absolutely love it and I
absolutely love sharing my knowledge with
them. Student nurses at the University of Nottingham
are one big family and they're
there for each other, and we
can't wait for you to join us soon.