{"id":9499,"date":"2019-02-26T10:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-26T09:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/undergraduate\/?p=9499"},"modified":"2021-03-30T13:20:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-30T12:20:17","slug":"living-in-hospital-accommodation-v-living-in-halls-as-a-health-and-social-care-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/2019\/02\/26\/living-in-hospital-accommodation-v-living-in-halls-as-a-health-and-social-care-student\/","title":{"rendered":"Living in hospital accommodation v living in halls as a health and social care student"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a guest blog by current student Marie Drayton who studies BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing and Lucy Biggs who studies BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing.<\/h3>\n

\"\"<\/a>– Marie Drayton\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Studying while living in Bournemouth hospital accommodation has been a really positive experience for me. I\u2019ve not had to worry about moving every year, and because I live on the hospital grounds, getting to work is just a short walk. All my bills (including\u00a0parking, internet and more) are included in\u00a0my rent, and there\u2019s lots of different types of\u00a0accommodation available.\u00a0I\u2019m living with five other healthcare students,\u00a0sharing two bathrooms and one kitchen. The flat\u00a0has pretty much everything you could need, and\u00a0I\u2019ve become great friends with my flatmates. We\u00a0bonded quickly, and often cook together and hang\u00a0out in each other\u2019s rooms.\u00a0The facilities are great and you are also well\u00a0looked after \u2013 if anything breaks then I simply\u00a0email the accommodation office and it is sorted\u00a0out quickly – usually the same day. you even get\u00a0cleaners once a week who supply toilet rolls,\u00a0bin bags, fresh tea towels and bath mats for\u00a0no extra charge.\u00a0Living near to the hospital made perfect sense for\u00a0me because I spent a lot of time on placement or\u00a0working, but the university was still only a\u00a0ten-minute drive away. All things considered, living in hospital\u00a0accommodation has been both convenient and\u00a0enjoyable, and something I\u2019m happy to recommend to other healthcare students.<\/p>\n

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Lucy Biggs<\/p><\/div>\n

–\u00a0Lucy Biggs<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wanted the university halls experience. During my first year at BU, I decided to stay in BU halls rather than living in hospital accommodation, and I found the experience to be great fun, sharing a flat with other healthcare\u00a0students while also meeting students\u00a0from other courses.
\nThe flats in Dorchester House were lovely \u2013\u00a0very spacious and comfortable \u2013 and it was\u00a0handy for me to be close to the Lansdowne\u00a0Campus where my lectures were.\u00a0Because my flatmates were also healthcare\u00a0students, we were all very respectful of each\u00a0other working shifts. While students on other\u00a0courses might not understand what it\u2019s like\u00a0working shifts, it really helped being with\u00a0others going through the same experience.\u00a0We all knew what it was like to work late and sleep during the day sometimes, so made\u00a0sure we kept it quiet when our flatmates were\u00a0catching up on sleep!\u00a0Of course, being in halls means that as well as your flatmates from similar backgrounds,\u00a0it\u2019s easy to go out and meet new people from\u00a0other courses and faculties, which I felt really\u00a0added to my university experience. Travelling to work was no issue, because I claimed travel expenses from the NHS, so it\u2019s\u00a0really a question of whether you\u2019d rather live\u00a0near your lectures and travel to work, or live\u00a0near your work and travel to your lectures!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a guest blog by current student Marie Drayton who studies BSc (Hons) Adult Nursing and Lucy Biggs who studies BSc (Hons) Mental Health Nursing. – Marie Drayton\u00a0 Studying while living in Bournemouth hospital accommodation has been a really positive experience for me. I\u2019ve not had to worry about moving every year, and because… Read more » about Living in hospital accommodation v living in halls as a health and social care student<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19,503,12,1638],"tags":[561,1133,1134,422,69],"class_list":["post-9499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accommodation","category-featured","category-health-social-care","category-student-blogs","category-undergraduate","tag-bsc-hons-adult-nursing","tag-bsc-hons-children-and-young-peoples-nursing","tag-bsc-hons-mental-health","tag-health-and-social-care","tag-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499","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\/1268"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16736,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions\/16736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microsites.bournemouth.ac.uk\/student-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}