hello everyone and welcome to my channel
my name is maria but on my channel i
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more videos like this so in this video
i'm going to be sharing a handful of
things
that i wish i knew before i started
nursing school
i know that i've alluded to some of the
points in my previous videos
but in this video i'm really gonna
explain what it is by what i mean when i
say oh my gosh i never knew this i never
expected this
um one because it's like you know
something for me to do and two because i
know it will be kind of like
informative for you guys so i'll help
you guys prepare for nursing school if
you're about to start
and i'll also help you prepare in terms
of you deciding i know
if you want to go forward with your
nursing school journey
i do want to say that this is just my
experience so don't think that oh my
gosh you
experienced this and i'm definitely
going to experience it because i can
tell you hands down some of the points
that i'm going to show in this video
i've actually shared with some of my
nursing colleagues when i was a student
nurse and some of them agreed with some
of the points that i made
and some of them disagreed with some of
the points that i made
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the first thing you guys have had this
before the first thing i wish i knew
about
um nursing school or the first thing i
did know the first thing i wish i knew
about nursing school was the fact that
you only get seven
weeks annual leave a year as a nursing
student as a midfield student
i can only say nurse and immediately
your timetable does not mirror
the rest of the university so you see
when you know the other students have
like a month off for christmas
and like a month for easter and then
they may get like two or three weeks off
um i mean two or three months off during
the summer break you don't get that you
get
seven weeks in total i believe the exact
breakdown for my annual leave i believe
it was two weeks at christmas
two weeks at easter and i think it was
like
four weeks three or four weeks over the
summer which was seven weeks
and bear in mind that um when it was a
christmas break and when it was the
easter break i actually had essays due
in i had
assessments to win so even though it was
um
an annual lead break sometimes it really
didn't it really really didn't feel like
it
i wish i knew that you only got seven
weeks annual
leave a year another point coming off
that is that i never knew
the nursing degree was so time
consuming like honestly guys at my
university
it was split into block and placements
now the placements and theory were
blocked so you'd have like 12 months
not 12 months you'd have like 12 weeks
of placement they need to have 12 weeks
of theory
12 weeks of placement that's what it
seemed like on paper but what it really
was like
you'd have 12 months of placement and
then you'd have like three or four
essays or assessments
due at the same time so basically you're
working full time hours
and then you're also you also have
assessments due in and then
sometimes not sometimes most of the time
we'd also have like
one day a week at uni in addition to
being at placement full-time
and in addition to having our essays and
assessments and then you'd have like the
theory block which was like i don't know
maybe 10 or 12 weeks of theory
where you were pretty much at uni at
least four
out of the um five days from what i
remember i was at uni
five out of the five working days of the
week but i remember i believe it was on
a tuesday or a wednesday
we had a half day just because that's
just how the university was i believe it
was on a monday or tuesday
the rest of uni didn't really have any
sessions but nursing students had maybe
like
a one or two maybe a three or four hour
session on that day
so guys like you need to have patented
your organization skills like honestly
guys
get yourself a paper diary i think an
electronic diary is better because
you can see on whatever device has
internet access
make sure you organize yourself because
if i knew nursing school was going to be
so so busy i would have like made sure i
organized myself from the beginning
and if i'm honest i do think i did a
pretty good job
but i would have given myself more time
to rest because
nursing school the theory side in
addition to the placement in addition to
all your essays and assessments
in addition to you wanting to join the
clubs and societies it's
it was it was a struggle so make sure
you set up your organization skills from
day one because if not
you will get left behind i can think of
oh my gosh let me tell you like a really
crazy story and this crazy story
actually happened more than once another
thing i wish
i knew before starting nursing school
was how hard it was and
what type of hardness it was because
what before i said i nursed the squat i
knew it was going to be challenging now
obviously you're going to university
it's going to be challenging
and i thought the hard part of it i
thought the really hard and really
challenging part of it
i thought it was going to come from the
um the modules like i thought the exams
were really
going to be very hard i thought the
essays the assessments the presentations
were gonna be really hard
and don't get me wrong they were
challenging like it was very challenging
but the hardness like the thing that i
really struggled with
was the actual workload it wasn't
actually the nature of the exams it
wasn't the nature of the assessments
that
that was hard it was the fact that i had
so many other things to do i had
so many other things in relation to uni
going um
going on so it was a workload more than
more than
anything else and obviously if you've
got so many things going on it makes it
hard to like concentrate in your essays
or concentrate placement because in the
back of your mind you're thinking
i've got this doing i've got to do this
i've got to do this it was yeah it was a
lot yeah
like i said at the beginning of the
video your experience might be different
but what i found was that it was the
workload and rather than the content of
the exams or the essays
that i found that i found really really
hard
really really challenging to manage at
times another thing i wish i knew before
i started
nursing school is that nurses
and student nurses are hard as anything
else like
they are hard as anything else
oh my gosh i don't want to say that i
felt like nurses were soft and all of
that stuff like i knew like it was hard
work but
personality trait when you think of the
word nurse you think of caring you think
of loving and yes
most nurses are that they're caring
they're loving their compassionate
but at the same time they've got walls i
remember on my first placement my first
placement was ordinary spiritual ward
and that yeah that was my first ever
placement and at the same time there was
another student nurse there was
two when we started there was three of
us but then i think there was only three
of us for like a week or so but then for
the most part it was only me
and this other third year nursing
student and she was in her final year
and i remember one time it was like um i
think it was like in the afternoon
we were like i wasn't preparing
antibiotics i was just watching her and
one of
her mentors or one of the other nurses
prepare the antibiotics and i've just
kind of like stood there like chilling
or whatever because
the people the patients were having
their lunch protected meal times there's
not much she could do but they would
prepare antibiotics and
she was doing the antibiotics the
student nurse third year shooting nurse
bear in mind i was in first year
first ever placement and she was
probably like she was probably like on
it like not even on it but she was like
okay um that was done and then she was
doing some other stuff and i was just
kind of like watching it and i was like
calm down like it ain't that serious
like calm down
like i wasn't saying it to her but in my
mind i was just like damn like
legit girl like damn like calm down and
like the nurse that she was with as well
they were like they were all just like
and i was like damn like isn't that
serious like is it really that serious
and yes it is that serious obviously
this was my first placement
you know probably that first week and i
was not naive to everything but
you have to be on job like you have to
be on job and you have to be
i don't want to be i don't want to say
hard at heart but you you have to be
mentally strong because honestly
another thing i wish i knew guys listen
to what i'm saying another thing i wish
i knew before i became a student nurse
is that
you are a working professional
before you are anything else yeah you
are a
working professional before you are
anything else obviously because we're at
university with students
but like i said you are a working
professional
before you are anything else like i
never knew like
you would be given not that much
responsibility but i never knew you'd
literally be thrown in there at my
university we had three months
of like theory so we started in
september we had theory all the way till
december and then we started our first
places in january
and at my university a lot of people
dropped out around that time because it
was like oh you're being cuddled you're
at the university
bam in january you don't hear anything
from any of your course lecturers
for how long it's it's a madness like i
never knew like
i was a working professional before
anything else i felt like
that three months was just to give you
the basics just to prepare you
the three months was more like an
induction just to say this is the
university you're affiliated with this
is how you do things this is how you
need to proceed
but really this is what you're supposed
to do like you're a working professional
before anything else like
when you go into placement people don't
see you i know
you've got the badge that says student
nurse but people don't see you as a
student now for the most part
people see you as an extra pair of hands
same with patients as well yes they know
you shouldn't nurse
they know that you're literally at the
bottom of the totem pole when it comes
to you know
the whole hierarchy in the nhs and in
healthcare but the first thing they see
before they see your student ass badge
before they even hear you say
my name is maria i'm a shooter nurse the
first thing they say the first thing
they see is a pair of hands the first
thing they see
not just with patients but with other
members of staff the first thing they
see is that
someone that can help them and i think
that really something in fact that there
are not enough
health care professionals in general on
top of the fact that there are not
enough nurses in general there are some
placements where i was literally just
used as an extra pair of hands so those
are a handful of things that i wish i
knew
before i started nursing school there
are so many other things that i will
show you but i didn't want to make this
video too long
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bye yeah it's definitely over glamorized
and i do think that
nursing shoes are desensitized from
early on