{"id":7610,"date":"2018-01-10T14:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T13:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=7610"},"modified":"2021-11-12T15:06:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T14:06:51","slug":"placements-and-what-you-can-expect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2018\/01\/10\/placements-and-what-you-can-expect\/","title":{"rendered":"Placements and what you can expect"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Studying whilst on placement<\/p><\/div>\n

Here at Bournemouth uni, nursing students are allocated their placements up to six weeks prior to starting placement, so there\u2019s always an air of anticipation when allocation day arrives and everyone finds out what they\u2019ve been given.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Everyone is excited and discussing their different allocations at uni today. Everyone speculates what placement will be like, what sorts of things they\u2019ll be doing and whether they\u2019ll get on well with their mentor!!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I\u2019ve been allocated a community placement for my first time in practice, meaning I\u2019ll be based out of a doctor\u2019s surgery and working with district nurses, this means going in to people\u2019s houses and providing care to them in their own homes. Having never worked in healthcare before, I don\u2019t really know what to expect. Other people in my class have been given a range of placement areas, including elderly medical wards at local hospitals and some being given nursing homes.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>It\u2019s day one of placement and I arrive a good half an hour early\u2026 No one wants to be late on their first day! (I think nerves probably have a lot to do with this as well!). I\u2019m sat in the waiting room at the surgery when one of my classmates comes down and shows me where to go\u2026 It\u2019s nice knowing I won\u2019t be going it alone, and also helps put me at ease knowing that there\u2019s someone I know here too.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Me before I start on shift<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0<\/span>I get up to the office and say hi to everyone\u2026 Everyone is really friendly and welcoming\u2026. The first thing I\u2019m shown is where to get a cup of tea when I arrive in the morning (Surely this can\u2019t be right?! \u2013 I didn\u2019t think this was nursing!!) I\u2019m chatting with the team I\u2019ll spend the next 12 weeks with and everyone says how nice it is to have a male student on placement with them (everyone in the team is female \u2013 so I definitely feel like the minority!) but everyone is professional, welcoming and keen to get me involved with the team. I find out a lot about the nurses I\u2019ll be working with and the various experiences they\u2019ve had\u2026 There\u2019s even one nurse who was a medic in the army and went on operations in Kosovo in the 90\u2019s\u2026 Now I definitely feel out of place\u2026 How can I look after people and learn when these nurses have completely different exp<\/u>eriences to me?!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>As placement goes on I realise that the experiences that everyone brings to the team are all relevant, even me, as the student nurse has something to offer and that\u2019s what makes district nursing so interesting and diverse. I learn that the more time I spend with the team, the more my confidence grows and that I am learning every day. There is something very rewarding and personal about being invited into a persons\u2019 own home to provide care to them. The placement taught me to remain professional and positive, even when sharing some distressing times with patients and their families. I learnt a lot in the first 12 weeks of placement as a student nurse, but I think the most important was that regardless of anyone\u2019s background, they all have something to bring to the nursing profession.<\/span><\/p>\n

Scott, 2nd year Adult Nurse<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at Bournemouth uni, nursing students are allocated their placements up to six weeks prior to starting placement, so there\u2019s always an air of anticipation when allocation day arrives and everyone finds out what they\u2019ve been given. \u00a0Everyone is excited and discussing their different allocations at uni today. Everyone speculates what placement will be like,… Read more » about Placements and what you can expect<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1839,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1658,336],"tags":[561,422,315],"class_list":["post-7610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-archive","category-blogs-archive","tag-bsc-hons-adult-nursing","tag-health-and-social-care","tag-placements"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1839"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7610"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7619,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7610\/revisions\/7619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}