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Category: Health Sciences

  • Annual Leave as a Student Midwife…

    8 June 2017 by Jade
    2 minute read

      I’ve got 3 weeks off!! Well 2 weeks annual leave, and 1 reading week. I’ve literally spent the whole time catching up with family, and catching up with sleep-…

  • Nursing at York: The Placement / Theory / Life Balance

    27 March 2017 by Hannah
    3 minute read

    I’ve written before that nursing is a full-time course with long hours and 45 weeks of the year, so let’s talk about balance. I think now I’m half way through…

  • Wait, so you’re an elderly nurse? But you look so young!

    21 December 2016 by Hannah
    3 minute read

    “No, LD, a Learning Disability nurse!” A couple of colleagues and I, all Learning Disability student nurses, went to a recent conference with Health Education England (HEE). We met fellow…

  • Nursing is incredible

    30 November 2016 by Hannah
    3 minute read

    For this blog to work, I’ve got to be honest. You’ve seen the media – NHS nurses are overworked, underpaid and stressed. Student funding has been cut across the country…

  • The big step to 2nd year..

    24 November 2016 by Jade
    2 minute read

    Okay, so I’m completely new to all of this blogging business, but I’m gonna give it a good go! *Looking Back* Wow, where has this first year at York gone?!…

  • Current affairs.

    Current affairs.

    13 May 2016 by Eleni
    3 minute read

    Headline…….Support your local midwives, make love! Hello and welcome to May’s blog. The news is full of recent events so I thought I couldn’t write this without a word or…

  • The things I’ve learnt…..

    The things I’ve learnt…..

    6 May 2016 by Eleni
    4 minute read

    Hello, Welcome to my spring blog. It’s a new term, a new season, a new organised me. Ok, maybe not, but in terms of being an organised mummy fitting in…

  • My five favourite beauty spots on campus!

    My five favourite beauty spots on campus!

    4 April 2016 by Kimberley
    2 minute read

    So this is my final blog and I thought I would end on a spring note! The university, as you may know, is set on wonderful parkland around Europe’s largest…

  • York, short for Yorkshire

    York, short for Yorkshire

    23 March 2016 by Eleni
    3 minute read

    York is short for Yorkshire after all…

  • Time flies when you are having fun…

    15 March 2016 by Kimberley
    2 minute read

    So it’s nearly the end of Term Two. I am half-way through my second year and about to finish my third placement. Where has the time gone? This term we have…

  • Is there a life outside a nursing degree?

    23 February 2016 by Kimberley
    3 minute read

    As you may have seen the undergraduate nursing degree course is very full-on, with an equal divide between placement and theory hours. However it is important to have a work-life…

  • The big question?

    The big question?

    15 February 2016 by Eleni
    3 minute read

    Hello, I thought I would now throw you in at the midwifery deep end with the big question – integrated or block placements? The answer to this question will depend…